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 ==History==
 [[File:New Jersey - Lake Denmark - NARA - 68144665 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Aerial image of the 1926 fire (on 10th July)]]
-Prior to the [[American Civil War]] gunpowder was stored by the [[United States Army]] at various powder facilities throughout the eastern United States. Many of these facilities were located in the South and were confiscated by the [[Confederate States of America]] at the beginning of the war. The federal government began looking for a central storage depot to be located near the large cities of the northeast.
+Prior to the American Civil War gunpowder was stored by the [[United States Army]] at various powder facilities throughout the eastern United States. Many of these facilities were located in the South and were confiscated by the [[Confederate States of America]] at the beginning of the war. The federal government began looking for a central storage depot to be located near the large cities of the northeast.
 The United States War Department established the Dover Powder Depot on September 6, 1880. Four days later, it changed the name to the Picatinny Powder Depot "after the [[Lenape]]-named peak overlooking the old forge, loosely translated to mean 'rugged cliff by water' or 'water by the hills.'"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Picatinny Peak|url=https://njskylands.com/history-picatinny_arsenal|access-date=September 27, 2020|website=Northwest New Jersey Skylands |archive-date=September 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928022801/https://njskylands.com/history-picatinny_arsenal|url-status=dead}}</ref>