Split Rock Explosion

Send us Fan Mail A played-out limestone quarry in the hills of New York should have faded into silence, but World War I turned Split Rock into something far more dangerous: a round-the-clock TNT factory built to feed an exploding demand for high explosives. We walk through how an isolated site with rail access and existing infrastructure became the ideal place to make munitions, and why “ideal” can also mean “easy to look away from” when the goal is maximum output. We follow the pressure coo...