The "Chernobyl" of Texas, the Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant, an Explorer's Dream

Besides world war two us was worried Japan and Germany. What the hell kind of bullshit is he talking about.

We WERE attacked on our own soil. Do your research!

I’ve seen a video on this place before sometime back. It wasn’t as long as yours, they didn’t cover as much you did.

We were attacked the Japanese did land on the West Coast and we were attacked by the Germans. They landed on the east coast learning your world war two history

It always amazes me how fast nature can take over in places like this.

Chernobl of Texas?

I grew up as a kid in karnack. Now that it has been turned into a refuge, it is one of my favorite places for quiet and reflection

I've looked at some of that paperwork on the ground years ago. It was mostly old employees time cards. However there is alot more on the ground now

Jefferson Texas is a ture Jewel of a town.

Scary place like movie Friday in the 13, looked Horrors every where .

Stupid people in Texas love to destroy wildlife & nature, all those structures need to be torn down and let nature have it back.

This looks like a good location for doing a little historical photo shoot. I'd probably be watching the ground for rattlesnakes more than composing pictures, though!

BIG THUMBS UP for your outstanding video, do one on Springtown, Texas's Hill sisters that were hanged for cattle stealing.

Excellent concrete work.

That was absolutely amazing. I feel it would be important to clean up that Hope cemetery and preserve it. Who would you contact?

Just a few miles down the road from me.

My friends and I stumbled upon this place back in November 2020, but clearly we are fools who don't read signs. 😆 We didn't know anything about it. It was SO COOL though and thank you for the video!

I was in the area in May and enjoyed exploring the area. Now I want to go back and explore some more.

That's our dam government for ya what the he'll do u expect and they take our money for that and leave it to contaminate every Thang and not clean up

My mom worked here in 66 til bout 1973.

Once I started seeing all that darn poison ivy, it was a big NO DEAL for me. Thank you so much for the tour though.

I've been taking my nephews here since 2010 their taller then me n still beg me to take them now. We always find new cool stuff where we've been 100 times before...just keep a look for those dugouts holes n other obstructions very cool place I'm from lake o the pines

If it's polluted by hazardous chemicals why are you walking around the remains of the facility? And if you filmed a movie there the actors could be exposed to the hazardous chemicals.

That was so beautiful!!!

I'd imagine a lot of people worked most their lives back there.

We have a site just like this in Point Pleasant WV, the TNT domes. It's where the moth-man hangs out. Creepy swampy overgrown place. In 2010 something ignited one of the domes that still contained ordinance. It blew apart the 50' diameter, 30' tall dome of 24" thick concrete.

Glad we were never attacked on our own soil… I guess Hawaiians don’t count for whoever this guy is . Ignorant people making videos

Glad we were never attacked on our own soil… I guess Hawaiians don’t count for whoever this guy is . Ignorant people making videos

20 + years and it’s in this shape is pathetic, there should be zero contamination and this property repurposed!! Our tax dollars are not working for us! The government started this they should finish it, before giving tax dollars to other nations!

Wonder who the family members were who supplied all the concrete??

We had a Munitions plant in Weldon Spring also. Unfortunately like Chernobyl we also had a nuclear element.

Remarkable...

PLEASE PLANT HEMP ALL AROUND THIS AREA!!!
ASAP. IT WILL MAKE THIS AREA A BIT MORE SAFE!!!!
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The hemp plant must be 10 feet wide all around.

Here in Southern NJ there were two munitions loading plants built during WWI and were nearly completely removed at the end of the war. These plants included an entire town for the workers and their families to live there. Both of these sites are now overgrown by woods and one is a county park where some structures and foundations remain.

Please take note; in the early 1990s a campaign of propaganda began to be used by the Super liberals to take back federal land by claiming that “the said land” had nearly extinct reptiles or chemical traces have been discovered. This only happens on Federal land, too include Army bases, where a large amount of the training area in Fort Hood has been restricted from use.

Yeah that's not from nuclear fallout that's from a eagles member buying up everything and saying you can't go to the lake because we want to keep it natural

Washington State has a park similar to this place. Fort Worden is an early 20th century military base which has now closed and become a state park. Absolutely beautiful sights and solemn place. Would love to visit this ammunitions plant one day!!

I grew up in a tiny "town" called Viola, which is in Graves County Kentucky. During WW2 the government built a munitions plant nearby. They manufactured 20mm cannon rounds. The plant covered hundreds of acres just like the one in the video. Also the entire place now is covered in trees and farm fields, but several concrete hulks are still there and can be accessible by walking through the trees and bushes that have taken over. Several areas are now flooded permanently and it's very difficult to get through those places. Other areas still have paved roads that look almost new except for patches of grass and small trees growing through cracks. This was the place that we loved to explore and sometimes even camp over night in the large concrete walls that still stand. The places would block the wind and the light from our small campfire when we stayed overnight. The entire place covered an area of about a mile running north and south, and slightly less east and west. At one time it had a railroad connection running through the center of the area. Back in the 1970's I found out that a friend's grandfather was a carpenter and helped install shelves and work benches in the plant. He also had two 20mm anti-aircraft rounds that he displayed on his mantle in his living room. He told us that they were "dummy" rounds that he had snuck out back when he was working on the buildings. In the early 1990's after he had passed away, his family were cleaning out the house and decided to take the "dummy" rounds to a local military surplus store to try and sell them. The owner took a close look at the munitions that resembled giant bullets about 8 inches long, and determined that they were actually LIVE EXPLOSIVE rounds that once fired exploded on impact with their target. The over 60 years old munitions could have been detonated simply by dropping them or handing them too roughly. The police were called and eventually a military explosive disposal team came and safely detonated them outside of town. And to think about how many times several of us had been to his house and actually played with those things.

You know, they could have turned a small contractor out on that site and let them work at a gentle pace to clean up all but the worst pollution over a period of 20 years and opened the area to lake access to recoup some of the cost of cleanup. I'm afraid the government doesn't think that way. Also surprised there are few snakes.

Now you know why they call it Uncertain Texas

I'm originally from this area grew up there and for them to actually do anything about anything you are talking about will take a lifetime

Lol they built the buildings so heavy duty because they were dealing with explosives bud. They wouldn't build that way for an invasion, those are munitions buildings.

The Russian slash Ukraine plant isnt closed anymore

I worked on the crew that dismantled the Badger ammunition plant in Wisconsin for a couple of years, they consisted mostly of wood framed buildings that had asbestos siding/roofing that had to be removed by abatement, It was a huge facility, very dangerous because rocket powder/gun powder residue was sometimes left over in the piping and walls of the building, We had 2 minor explosions occur during the time i worked there, also huge rattlesnakes were not uncommon to see at times. the company that contracted the removal of the buildings (spec-pro) was the toughest company i had ever worked. they were ultra strict.

Very interesting and also very sad at the end to see the abandoned cemetery 😥

Love these type of historical videos...

With the billions of government $ wasted, these sites must be cleaned up now!