Page "Charlestown, Indiana" Paragraph 7

In 1940 the population of Charlestown was 900, but it swelled to 13, 400 due to the building and operation of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant ( INAAP ).

This created a housing problem, as chicken, wood, and wash houses had to house all the new residents that flocked to area for the jobs created by the INAAP.

Additional problems caused by the rapid influx of new residents was improper sanitation at restaurants, inefficient sewers, gambling, panhandling, and diseases such as typhoid and malaria.