Carbine sub contractor info

[usgicollector]

I have searched for this info to do a little research, but can't come up with anything.
Does anyone have the actual physical address of Jasper-Backburn in St.Louis and Litchfield Precision Products. I live just a couple miles south of Litchfield and work in St. Louis. I was just wondering if the old buildings were still standing. I like to check these things out when I am in the area of a WWII ordnace supplier. The old St. Louis Ord Plant was torn down just a few years ago. We still have quite a few old plants still standing here in the St Louis area though.
Thanks,
Dave

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[cowboyminer]

Hi Dave I know nothing about the buildings you are asking about. I have a question about M1 carbine parts you might be able to help me with. I live in Springfield IL. I am looking for springfield Armory marked parts or any one in your area that might have
m1 carbne parts.

Thanks Jim

[usgicollector]

Email me at usgicollector@yahoo.com

[firstflabn]

Big city main libraries often have city directories going back more than a century. Might have phone books that old too. Sanborn fire insurance maps go back over a hundred years too. Remember, development can result in street numbers changing over time (that's why the Sanborn maps might work best, though they were about finished by 1940).

[Thumper]

Dave

I grew up in St. Louis and still live there, however was not here during WW2. But I do not remember a Jasper-Backburn Company at all. There was a Blackburn publishing Company here some years ago but I think they are gone as well.

Regards: Thumper

[phillydude]

i like to do the same thing, but not just ordanance plants. anything to do with WW2. it all started when i was a kid. i currently live less than one mile from the Frankford Arsenal,which was closed almost 20 years ago. but it still has all of the original buildings intact