Editing Nitro, West Virginia (section)

==History==
Nitro was [[incorporation (municipal government)|incorporated]] in 1932 by [[Circuit Court]]. The name Nitro derives from [[nitrocellulose]], the main ingredient in smokeless gunpowder.<ref>Wintz, William. Nitro, The World War 1 Boom Town. South Charleston, WV: Jalamap Publications, 1985</ref> The Nitro area was to be the American ammunition production facility during [[World War I|World War{{nbsp}}I]].  [[Daniel C. Jackling]] "supervised the construction and operation" of the plant, which by the time of the armistice "was producing one hundred thousand pounds of high explosives per day."<ref name="Hawley">{{Cite book |author=Charles Caldwell Hawley |title=A Kennecott Story |publisher=The University of Utah Press |year=2014 |pages=97–98}}</ref>

Its name was selected by the [[United States]] government because of the establishment there, during World War{{nbsp}}I, of a large federal plant for the manufacture of explosives. The city is known as "a Living Memorial to World War{{nbsp}}I."