Watervliet Arsenal (Watervliet, New York)

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1 Buffington Street
Watervliet, NY 12189
(518) 266-5111
www.wva.army.mil/

Watervliet Arsenal National Historic Landmark: Located on Broadway, the Watervliet Arsenal is the oldest arsenal in continuous operation in the United States. Founded in 1813, the site encompasses approximately 112.5 acres. Approximately one-third of the landmark (located mostly east of Buffington Street) consists of military quarters and office buildings in a park-like setting with lawns, mature trees and shrubs, fountains and monuments and athletic fields and recreational buildings. The remaining two-thirds of the landmark consist of the industrial buildings, laboratories and support facilities devoted to the manufacture of weaponry. The Arsenal began with the manufacture of small, fixed ammunition and artillery accoutrements. Since 1887, the Arsenal has been the Army’s primary producer of large-caliber cannon. The Arsenal has increasingly become a research and development facility for weapons with production being limited to smaller quantities of cannon of small and medium caliber.