Robbins & Lawrence Armory (Lamson, Goodnow & Yale)
Armory, Windsor, Vermont.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Armory
- Where
- Windsor, Vermont
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Museum
ROBBINS & LAWRENCE ARMORY
Lamson, Goodnow & Yale, a machine tool firm in the old armory, built the gunmaking machinery behind most of the Union's rifles, pistols and carbines. In partnership with Samuel Colt it also produced 50,000 Special Model 1861 rifle muskets in the building.
Then
Lamson, Goodnow & Yale, a machine tool firm in the old Robbins & Lawrence armory, built the gunmaking machinery behind most of the Union's rifles, pistols and carbines. In partnership with Samuel Colt it also produced 50,000 Special Model 1861 rifle muskets in the building.
Now
Museum
The armory building houses the American Precision Museum.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by a smaller railroad.
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