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The present-day facility occupies land first used as an arms and ammunition plant in 1872. However, Winchester’s involvement with New Haven goes back even further. In 1856, Oliver F. Winchester ...
The first suitors were scheduled to come calling Wednesday afternoon on New Haven’s Winchester rifle plant. Paul DeMennato (pictured in the lobby with John Wayne) was there to meet them in hopes of ...
the controversy over whether Yale-New Haven Hospital could proceed with plans to build a $430 million cancer center and the Winchester plant closing. The first event had a happy ending. It’s too soon ...
In New Haven, an old-line industrial city, the main surprise is that the ax didn’t fall sooner. The low-slung, modern Winchester plant, built with state, city and bonding support in 1994 ...
In New Haven, officials have been searching for a buyer who would continue making firearms at the site. Smith & Wesson executives were to tour the plant over the weekend. “Winchester has ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn ... which historians credited with boosting the sales of Winchester sporting rifles. Since the plant opened in 1866, tens of millions of Winchester rifles have been produced ...
is developing Winchester Green, a $90 million, 283-unit mixed-income project in New Haven, Conn. Construction is expected to start next month, with completion scheduled for early 2026. Goldman ...
Oliver Winchester aimed to manufacture repeat firearms in New Haven on this day in 1857 when he formed the Winchester New Haven Arms Company on April 25. Connecticut State Historian Walter W.