page_title: Sangamon Ordnance Plant
section_title: Disposition
hierarchical_section_title: Sangamon Ordnance Plant / Disposition
caption_attribution_description: Sangamon_Ordnance_Plant_ruins
context_page_description: The Sangamon Ordnance Plant was a United States Army ammunition manufacturing facility constructed and operated during World War II. It was located west of Illiopolis in Sangamon County, Illinois encompassing 20,000 acres. It began as two separate plants, the Sangamon and the Oak Ordnance Plants, separated by Illinois Route 36 and operated by Remington Rand and Johnson & Johnson respectively. Prior to the end of World War II, the facility was consolidated into the Sangamon Ordnance Plant, operated by Remington Rand.
context_section_description: Following World War II, the facility closed and was mostly dismantled, though some parts still remain. A large portion of the site has returned to farmland. By June 1949, 90% of farmland had returned to production. The land had cost the government $3,186,922, but was sold for $2,126,490, mostly to former owners. The Federal Works Agency received 359 buildings which were dismantled and removed many for use at schools and colleges.
  Six warehouses were dismantled and reassembled at the Springfield, Illinois airport. Numerous wood frame buildings were dismantled so that surplus lumber could be used for the veterans emergency housing program.
  In January 1948, it was announced that 553 acres (2.24 km²) of the site and eight buildings were sold to the DeKalb Hybrid Seed Company for $98,000 to be used in a poultry breeding operation.
  The last surplus property was sold by April 15, 1948.
caption: The ruins of the Sangamon Ordnance Plant, closed following World War II lie west of Illiopolis.
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