Eddystone Rifle Plant

Eddystone Rifle Plant is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Eddystone, Delaware County, dedicated 2019.

13th Ave. & Simpson St., Eddystone

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Built to make P14 Enfield rifles for the UK in 1914, the factory was the nation's largest during WWI. It produced a modified version of the firearm after the US entered the war, designated the Model 1917. It was the most common rifle issued to US soldiers and more than half were made here. Employing 15,000 workers, 20% of which were women, the plant fabricated over a million rifles, accounting for 47% of total US wartime production.

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Historical maps covering this location

1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Chester, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1898 · Chester, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1902 · Philadelphia and vicinity, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware / Henry Gannett, chief… (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1924 · New Jersey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

New Jersey, 1924, covering the location of Eddystone Rifle Plant, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New Jersey, 1924, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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