New Haven Arms Company (Henry rifle)
Armory, New Haven, Connecticut.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Armory
- Where
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Years
- 1862-1865
NEW HAVEN ARMS COMPANY
Made Benjamin Tyler Henry's sixteen-shot .44 rimfire lever-action rifle from 1860 to 1866. Output peaked at 290 a month in 1864, and about 14,000 were made in all. The government bought 1,731, and soldiers bought many more privately.
Then
Made Benjamin Tyler Henry's sixteen-shot .44 rimfire lever-action rifle from 1860 to 1866. Nine hundred were made between summer and October 1862, output peaked at 290 a month in 1864, and about 14,000 were made in all. The government bought 1,731, and many more were bought privately by soldiers.
Oliver Winchester reorganized the firm as the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1866.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads run through New Haven today.
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