The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American manufacturer of repeating firearms and ammunition. The firm was established in 1866 by Oliver...
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The Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District is a historic district in New Haven, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic...
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The company traced its origins to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, which was famous for making Winchester rifles. In 1866, Oliver Winchester reorganized...
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are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District, bounded on the south by Charles, Admiral...
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neighborhood planning area is included within the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District. This historic neighborhood also includes important and pioneering...
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District Whitney Avenue Historic District Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District Wooster Square Historic District Harrison's illustrated guide...
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Winchester Square Historic District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of brick buildings at and near the intersection of State Street and Wilbraham...
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New Haven, Connecticut (redirect from Hillhouse Opera Company)
buildings that were a part of the Winchester plant are now a part of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District). After the war, population grew...
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stockholder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Sarah Winchester (1837–1922), wife of William Winchester and builder of the Winchester Mystery House Scott...
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Downtown Norwich Historic District, NRHP-listed in 1985. Contributing properties to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District, NRHP-listed in...
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Olin Corporation (redirect from Winchester Ammunition)
Winchester, on December 12, 1980, Olin made the decision to sell Winchester firearms to the firm's employees under the name US Repeating Arms Company...
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1893. Winchester Repeating Arms Company began loading sporting ammunition with smokeless powder manufactured by the Anglo-American Explosives Company; and...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven, Connecticut. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National...
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.50 BMG (category Winchester Repeating Arms Company cartridges)
contracted with Winchester to design a .50-cal. cartridge. Subsequently, Frankford Arsenal took over from Winchester, producing the historic .50 BMG (12.7x99...
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11 February 2007. The Winchester * Keen Kutter * Diamond Edge Chronicles, Hardware Companies Kollectors Klub "Buffum Tool Company". Pike County Genealogical...
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Highwood, Hamden (section Historic site)
Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company buried toxic waste in a portion of the neighborhood where...
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Betts House (Yale University) (category Historic American Buildings Survey in Connecticut)
north of Edwards Street. Winchester, founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company located just down the hill, was the first to complete his mansion...
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Keen Kutter Building (category Historic district contributing properties in Kansas)
the 1920s the Winchester Repeating Arms Company diversified to include knives and hardware. They merged with the Simmons Hardware Company. During the 1920s...
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single-shot or manual repeating rifles (including centre-fire rifles, for hunting or target shooting). Once legally purchased these category C arms may be kept...
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generally takes the form of a cross, the arms of which are of equal length and perpendicular to the adjacent arms, each bent midway at a right angle. The...
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Winchester Repeating Arms Winchester-Simmons Company Union Mills Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Castner, Curran and Bullitt, Incorporated Union Trust Company Conveyancers...
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Battle of Bear Paw (category Conflict sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana)
warriors manned the defenses, each armed with three guns including a repeating rifle. In the words of a soldier, "to charge them would be madness." Miles's...
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S2CID 205889350. Benzing, Jeffrey (January 16, 2016). "Pittsburgh's repeating tragedy of unsolved black homicides". PublicSource. Retrieved December...
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1st Maine Cavalry Regiment (section The Shenandoah, the "Middletown Disaster," and First Winchester)
to Winchester. Company K continued down the Valley Pike to Strasburg. Companies E and M traveled south on the also macadam Front Royal-Winchester Road...
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sort of arms produced by the Springfield Armory for the United States armed forces. Other famous arms invented in Springfield include the Repeating Pistol...
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son when I am gone will remember me, not from battle, but in the home, repeating with him our simple daily prayer, "Our father, Who art in Heaven." On...
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Relocation of association football teams in the United Kingdom (section District Line Ladies → Wembley Ladies → Barnet Ladies)
working for Mitchell, Shackleton and Company Limited, the club was initially headquartered at the Oddfellows Arms, Patricroft, before moving to St Michael's...
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procure arms. Some blacks tried to circumvent the local merchants by purchasing guns from outside of the state, such as from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company...
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Sussex (section Historic sub-divisions)
represent the Kingdom of the South Saxons. However, it seems that Speed was repeating an earlier association between the emblem and the county, rather than...
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Daily. This brigade was armed with carbine versions of seven-shot Spencer repeating rifles. Other Union cavalry men were typically armed with Colt's navy...
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