Redstone Arsenal Complex Chronology
Scope and Contents
The Frances Cabaniss Roberts collection covers the historical records of the Cabaniss Roberts family. This collection contains extensive correspondence records of the Cabaniss Roberts family circa 1830 to 1930.
Dates
- Creation: 1830 - 1930
Creator
- From the Collection: Roberts, Frances Cabaniss, Dr. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.
Extent
From the Collection: 105 Linear feet (143 boxes and 19 oversize.)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
General
Redstone Arsenal (RSA)
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Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation 56
ARFO renovation at Redstone Arsenal 42
Army Corps of Engineers 39
Army Day 15
Army Ordinance Department 5
Army Pink women's uniform 23
Army-Navy E Award 14, 21
Arsenic trichloride plant 28
Arthur D. Little, Inc. 64
Assembling Primacord in Moulds 37
Athens, AL 18
Baker, Michael E. 1, 3, 4
Baltimore, MD 6
Binford Court 30
Binford, Henry C. 30
Birmingham, AL 6
Black employees working on Huntsville Arsenal 40
Black employees 30
Black women 39
Bomb target wall 31
Boostering 47
Bryant-Harper & Company, Inc. 58
C. G. Kershaw Contracting Company 6
Calabama Chemical Company 57
Casting Blocks 37
Chambers Lumber Company 18
Chemical Warfare Depot 14
Chemical Warfare Service 4, 5, 48
Child care facilities 44
Civil Service Commission 12, 46
Civilian Auxiliary Military Police 18, 24
Civilian Personnel Branch 32
Civilian War Housing, Dormitory Project 18
Cleveland, OH 28
Clothing Renovation Plant 15
Concan Ordinance Co., Inc. 34
Concrete bomb target mat 31
Concrete igloos 10
Contaminated property 58
Cummings, Charles H. 62
DDT mosquito control 54
Demolition blocks 23, 24
Destruction of obsolete munitions 59
Detroit, MI 62
Ditto, Rollo C., Brig. Gen. 6, 30
Ditto, Rollo C., Col. 6, 7
Dixie Motor Car Corporation 57
Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland 4, 5
Employees' Welfare Association 43
Engineers Limited 6
Farley, Alabama housing 18
Federal Works Agency 44
Female Assistant Chemist 26
Female guards 25
Female Reactor Operator 26
Fifth Echelon Repair Shops 53
Fine Organics, Inc. 57
Fires 58
First Civilian Service Award 35
First Redstone Ordinance Plant Building 9, 10
Flood Damage 55
Fort Bliss, TX 63
Fred Project 45, 46
Fusing 47
Gas Mask Assembly Plant 53
Gas Mask Assembly 51, 52
German POWs 39
Gulf Chemical Depot abolished 57
Gulf Chemical Depot Activity discontinued 60
Gulf Chemical Depot 56
Gulf Chemical Warfare Depot 10, 31, 34, 36, 48, 51, 54
H. K. Ferguson Company 28
Hail Storm Damage 55
Harris Home 9
Hudson, Carroll D., Col. 41, 54, 61
Hudson, Carroll D., Lt. Col. 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 34, 36
Hudson, Carroll D., Maj. 8
Hughes, Kaylene, Dr. 1, 3, 4
Huntsville Arsenal ceases to exist 64
Huntsville Arsenal For Sale 63
Huntsville Arsenal Headquarters Building 7
Huntsville Arsenal land rental 58
Huntsville Arsenal Laundry 16
Huntsville Arsenal Police Department 56
Huntsville Arsenal Post Exchange 25
Huntsville Arsenal Post Hospital 8
Huntsville Arsenal production facilities 13
Huntsville Arsenal Railroad 8
Huntsville Arsenal safety program 21
Huntsville Arsenal Smoke and Incendiary ? 22
Huntsville Arsenal Station Hospital 20
Huntsville Arsenal 4, 6, 10, 17, 18, 27, 28, 30, 36, 39, 44, 46, 60
Huntsville Chemical Warfare Depot 12, 20, 32
Huntsville Gets Chemical War Plant 1
Huntsville, AL 1, 2
Incendiary Oil Plant 27
Industrial Research Corporation 62
Inserting Cartridges & Clips 38
Keller Motors Corporation 57
Kershaw Butler Engineers 12
Lewisite manufacturing plant 22
Lightweight Service Masks 53
Line 6 Facility, Redstone Arsenal 50
Little Tokyo 25, 26
M-1 fire starter 44
M-1 Smoke Pot 28
M-20 rifle grenade 39
M-22 rifle grenade 41
M-4 floating smoke pot 22
M-4A2 floating smoke pot 41
M-54 incendiary destruction program 51
M-69 bomb 41
M-7 tear gas grenade 39
M-88 smoke shell 43
Madison Co., AL 18
Main Gate, Redstone Arsenal 29
Malaria 54
Mechanical equipment 31
Members of the Ordinance Research & Dev. Div. 63
Minuteman T Banner 29, 30
Mounted Security Patrol 24
Munitions Workers, WWII 13, 33, 35, 47
Munitions 12
Mustard Gas production 15
Mustard Gas was hazardous 16
Operation Paperclip 64
Ordinance Research & Development Division 64
Ordinance Rocket Center 61, 64
Packing Blocks for Shipment 37
Packing Shells 47
Part I: The Pre-Missle Era (1941-49) 1, 3, 5
Pearl Harbor 10
Phosgene production 39
Planters Warehouse and Storage 61
Post Chaplain 61
Powell, John Company 62
Railroad tracks 10
Redstone Arsenal change of command 35
Redstone Arsenal Complex Chronology 1, 3, 5
Redstone Arsenal expansion 46
Redstone Arsenal explosion 41
Redstone Arsenal Headquarters 50
Redstone Arsenal Passenger Train 26
Redstone Arsenal product display 42
Redstone Arsenal production ceased 49
Redstone Arsenal Suggestion Award Program 33
Redstone Arsenal WWII record 65
Redstone Arsenal, AL 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65
Redstone Arsenal 4, 27, 28, 41, 44, 54, 60, 61, 64
Redstone cafeteria 19
Redstone Eagle newspaper 18, 19
Redstone Needs Laborers handbill 40
Redstone Ordinance Plant baseball team 24
Redstone Ordinance Plant Ground Breaking 9
Redstone Ordinance Plant hospital 18
Redstone Ordinance Plant road construction 11
Redstone Ordinance Plant women in uniform 21
Redstone Ordinance Plant 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 23, 27
Redstone Park concerns 25
Redstone Park 19, 20
refuzing grenades 43
Removal of families from Arsenal reservation 8
Removing Blocks from Moulds 37
Renovation of ammunition 42
Research and Development Division 61
Returned WWII veterans 45
Rifle grenade 21
Rohm and Haas 62
Roosevelt, Franklin D., President 5
Safety 22
San Francisco, CA 6
Sealing & Strapping Boxes 38
Serious explosion at Redstone Arsenal 34
Severe Hailstorm damage 54
Shaw, Eleanor G., Miss 60
Shell Storage 47
Solar, Leslie S., Maj. 36
Spraker Board reccomendations 48
St. Paul, MN 6
Stencilling & Sealing Boxes 37
Stringing Pellets on Primacord 37
Suggestion for Victory Program 34
T133 High Explosive Rocket 61
T137 Area Saturation Weapon project 64
Taping Fiber Containers 38
Tennessee River flood 53
The Huntsville Times Extra cover description 2
The Huntsville Times Extra 1
The Patriot newspaper 27
Thiokol Corporation 62
tobacco rationing 48
Truck Repairs & Rebuilding 59
Truman, Harry S., President 48
USAMC, Redstone Arsenal, AL 4
Victory Gardens 28
Victory Garden 29
von Braun, Wernher, Dr. 64
Walter Butler Company 6
War Assets Administration 58
War Bond flag 49
War Department Citation 49, 50
War Department 5
War Manpower Commission 39
Whitman, Requardt, and Smith 6
Wilson, Eleanor B., 2 Lt. 41
Women employees 39
Women War Plant Workers 11
Women's Army Corp 36, 41
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives & Special Collections Repository
M. Louis Salmon Library
301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville Alabama 35899 United States of America
256-824-6523
archives@uah.edu