U.S. Quartermaster Depot

Located on 10th Street, the Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot was built from 1871 to 1874 on land donated by the city to the federal government. It served from the Indian Wars of the 1870s through the Korean War and made many contributions to America, including the Phillips Pack Saddle, the Army stove, a wooden pallet for use with forklifts, illustrated mechanical drawing, a fastener for use with piggyback railroad cars, and many other inventions and creations. The Jeffersonville Depot was the only one to function as a manufactory, storage facility, shipping facility, and scientific experimental facility. It was closed in 1957. In 2006, the Quartermaster was renovated and now houses City Hall and many other businesses. In 1917, a particular group of women workers from the Falls Cities helped produce 8,500,000 shirts for the depot during the First World War, when it was the largest shirt manufacturer in the world. In 1942, the Quartermaster work force fastened belt buckles there.

Jeffersonville, Indiana · United States