Hazard Powder Company
Powder works, Hazardville (Enfield), Connecticut.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Powder works
- Where
- Hazardville (Enfield), Connecticut
- Years
- 1861-1865
HAZARD POWDER COMPANY
One of the three chief sources of Union gunpowder, producing up to 12,500 pounds a day. At its peak the company ran 125 buildings with 25 water wheels and three steam engines along a mile of the Scantic River. DuPont gained control in 1876.
Then
One of the three chief sources of Union gunpowder, producing up to 12,500 pounds a day. At its peak the company ran 125 buildings with 25 water wheels and three steam engines along a mile of the Scantic River.
The business declined after the war, DuPont gained control in 1876, and an explosion on January 14, 1913 destroyed much of the plant and closed it for good.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads run through Hazardville (Enfield) today.
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