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For Sale - Redstone Arsenal?That was what was posted on the gates in the month of June 1949. Huntsville was chosen to play their part of the war efforts in 1941, so the Huntsville Arsenal which was a chemical warfare plant and the Redstone Ordnance Plant were built on over 40,000 acres of cotton land. After the war and not needing either the Huntsville Arsenal or the Redstone Ordnance Plant, a for sale sign was placed on the gates by the Department of the Army. How different would the North Alabama areas be if someone had taken them up on the sale? Well, it never sold and the missile program was launched and later the rocket programs were brought here. The rest is history, as they say.