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The “Organ of Muskets” (so called for the resemblance of rifles on the double racks to organ pipes), made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Arsenal at Springfield,” is displayed in the museum of the Armory. The Armory was closed in the 1960s.
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