Augustus George Hazard
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Augustus George Hazard was an American gunpowder manufacturer and the namesake of Hazardville, Connecticut.
Augustus George Hazard
Hazard Powder Company
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The Hazard Powder Company is a former American manufacturer of gunpowder and explosives. It was located in Hazardville within the town of Enfield, Connecticut.
Augustus George Hazard
…River in Scitico, near the town of Enfield, Connecticut. He assumed sole ownership of the company in 1843. The business was known thereafter as the Hazard Powder Company, and the village that supported it became known as Hazardville. Col. Hazard and Salome returned to Connecticut in the 1840s in order to oversee his…
Powder mill wreckage, c. 1906
Powder Hollow, c. 1910
School Street, looking north, c. 1910
Child laborers in a tobacco shed at Hawthorn Farm in Hazardville, 1917. Photo by Lewis Hine.