Remembering Picatinny Arsenal’s 1926 Explosion

Remembering Picatinny Arsenal’s 1926 Explosion

The Revolutionary Lecture Series, presented by the Morris County Historical Society and Morris County Heritage Commission, celebrates the rich and vast history that makes Morris County so special, including remembering Picatinny Arsenal’s 1926 Explosion. Join us for a series of 12 lectures that will cover topics from our area’s role in the American Revolution to the early engineering marvels that forever changed the landscape to the local figures that made national history.

Lightning from a thunderstorm struck a storehouse of surplus WWI explosives was when Morris County was forever change. Join Jason Huggan, Chief Environmental Affairs Division, and Jeff Ranu, M.E. Mortars Division, of Picatinny Arsenal to walk through the lead-up to the explosion, recently discovered footage of the carnage, and the sweeping changes that resulted from the disaster.

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