Good fences make good neighbors. . . The line belongs to Robert Frost, but Gen. James W. Ripley, commandant of the Springfield Armory during the 1840s and 1850s, was an ardent proponent of the “strong ...
As a means of securing the Armory, Ripley took tons of scrap iron cannons from the Revolution and War of 1812 and had them melted down to make the handsome iron fence that encircles the Armory grounds ...
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