Massachusetts Arms Company
Armory, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Armory
- Where
- Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts
- Years
- 1863-1865
MASSACHUSETTS ARMS COMPANY
Held contracts for the Maynard carbine, the Adams revolver and the Greene carbine. Rebuilt in 1863 after a fire, the Chicopee Falls factory received an order for 20,000 Second Model Maynard carbines for Union cavalry. The company went bankrupt after the war.
Then
Held contracts for the Maynard carbine, the Adams revolver and the Greene carbine. After the Chicopee Falls factory burned in January 1861 and was rebuilt in 1863, it received an order for 20,000 Second Model Maynard carbines, which served with Union cavalry in the later part of the war.
The company went bankrupt after the war. J. Stevens Arms & Tool bought it in 1893.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads run through Chicopee Falls today.
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