Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Hamden, New Haven County, CT

Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that combined both the functional division of labor and the use of power-driven machinery.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1449

Survey number: HAER CT-2

Building/structure dates: 1798-1810 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1811-1825 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1860-1865 Subsequent Work

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