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Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Hamden, New Haven County, CT
Summary
Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that combined both the functional division of labor and the use of power-driven machinery.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1449
Survey number: HAER CT-2
Building/structure dates: 1798-1810 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1811-1825 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1860-1865 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Whitney, Eli
Talmage, Daniel
Acme Wire Company
New Haven Water Company
Merwin, Richard Treat
C. McClellan and Son
Whitney Arms Company
New Haven Colony Historical Society, sponsor
Comp, T. Allen, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Location
Hamden (Conn.), 41.38388, -72.90261
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
