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During the American Revolution, a forge stood at Washingtonburg on the site of present-day Carlisle Barracks as part of the Public Works at Carlisle, a government arsenal authorized by the Continental Congress in December 1776 to supply the Continental Army with arms, ammunition, and other needed materials. General George Washington directed Colonel Benjamin Flower to establish the arsenal at Carlisle in January 1777, and the forge was used to create and repair weapons for the army. Flower was ordered to provide the buildings needed for preparing fixed ammunition of every kind, including an air furnace to hold three thousand weights of fluxed metal, a mill for boring cannon after casting, shops for forty carpenters, forty blacksmiths, and twenty wheelwrights, as well as turners, tinmen, and twelve harness makers to produce spare single and double harnesses.
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