Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company
Armory, Hartford, Connecticut.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Armory
- Where
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Years
- 1861-1865
SHARPS RIFLE MANUFACTURING
Sharps manufacturing moved to a brick factory in Hartford in 1855. The company produced over 100,000 firearms for the Union Army during the war, and the Sharps was one of the two most widely used carbines of the war.
Then
Sharps manufacturing moved to a brick factory in Hartford in 1855. The company produced over 100,000 firearms for the Union Army during the war, and with the Spencer the Sharps was one of the two most widely used carbines of the war.
Production stayed in Hartford until 1876, when it moved to Bridgeport. The company went bankrupt and was defunct by 1881.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads run through Hartford today.
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