Spencer Repeating Rifle Company
Armory, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Armory
- Where
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Years
- 1862-1865
- Today
- Built over
SPENCER REPEATING RIFLE COMPANY
The company worked in the Chickering & Sons piano factory at 791 Tremont Street and made over 100,000 rifles and carbines from 1862 to 1868. The Spencer was adopted first by the Navy and then by the Army. The company went out of business in 1869.
Then
The company worked from 1860 to 1868 in space in the Chickering & Sons piano factory at 791 Tremont Street and made over 100,000 rifles and carbines for the U.S. Army and sportsmen from 1862 to 1868. The Spencer was adopted first by the Navy and then by the Army, and Lincoln test-fired one near the Washington Monument site in August 1863.
The Spencer company went out of business in 1869.
Now
Built over
The Chickering factory building still stands. It was renovated into artist studios in 1972.
Lines owned by smaller railroads and CSX run through Boston today.
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