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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.
Powder mill wreckage, c. 1906
Powder mill wreckage, c. 1906
Powder Hollow, c. 1910
Powder Hollow, c. 1910
School Street, looking north, c. 1910
School Street, looking north, c. 1910
Child laborers in a tobacco shed at Hawthorn Farm in Hazardville, 1917. Photo by Lewis Hine.
Child laborers in a tobacco shed at Hawthorn Farm in Hazardville, 1917. Photo by Lewis Hine.
Powder mill
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A powder mill was a mill where gunpowder is made from sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal.
Hazard Powder Company
…The company was founded on the Scantic River in 1835 by Allen Loomis in an area then known as Powder Hollow, with the construction of a small gunpowder mill. A company called Loomis, Denslow and Company, named for Loomis and his business partner, was established the following year. The company manufactured…
One component of a powder-mill, taken from Encyclopédie, published by Denis Diderot, circa 1770.
One component of a powder-mill, taken from Encyclopédie, published by Denis Diderot, circa 1770.
A working example of the drawing above. This is a restored edge-runner mill at Eleutherian Mills.
A working example of the drawing above. This is a restored edge-runner mill at Eleutherian Mills.
This former Laflin & Rand powder mill building illustrates the protective stone walls on three sides after the weaker wooden back wall and roof have r
This former Laflin & Rand powder mill building illustrates the protective stone walls on three sides after the weaker wooden back wall and roof have rotted away.