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Arsenals.
In 1901, arsenals, armories, and ordnance depots were established at the following places:
Arsenals--Allegheny, Pa.; Augusta, Ga.; Benicia, Cal.; Columbia, Tenn.; Fort Monroe, Va.; Frankford, Pa.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Kennebec (Augusta), Me.; New York (Governor's Island), N. Y.; Rock Island, Ill.; San Antonio, Tex.; Watertown, Mass.; and Watervliet, N. Y.
Armory--Springfield, Mass.
Powder Depots--St. Louis, Mo., and Dover, N. J.
Ordnance Proving Ground--Sandy Hook (Fort Hancock), N. J.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Floyd , John Buchanan 1807 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schoolcraft , Henry Rowe 1793 -1864 (search)
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe 1793-1864
Ethnologist; born in Watervliet, N. Y., March 28, 1793.
His ancestor who first settled in America was a school-teacher named Calcraft, and he was popularly named Schoolcraft.
Henry studied chemistry and mineralogy in Union College in 1807-8.
In 1817-18 he took a scientific tour in the West, and made a fine mineralogical and geological collection, publishing, in 1819, A view of the lead mines of Missouri, which was enlarged and published (1853) under the title of Scenes and adventures in the semi-alpine regions of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas.
In 1820 he was geologist of an exploring expedition under General Cass to the Lake Superior copper region.
He was also on a commission to treat with the Indians at Chicago.
In 1823 he was made Indian agent at the Falls of St. Mary, and afterwards at Mackinaw, where he married a granddaughter of an Indian chief.
He founded the Historical Society of Michigan in 1828; the Algic Society,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanford , Leland 1824 -1893 (search)
Stanford, Leland 1824-1893
Philanthropist; born in Watervliet, N. Y., March 9, 1824; received a common school education; was admitted to the bar in 1849; and practised in Port Washington, Wis., till 1852, when he removed to California and engaged in gold-mining.
In 1856 he settled in San Francisco, where he established a commercial house and acquired a large fortune.
He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860; governor of California in 1861; became interested in the construction of railroads and the development of the agricultural and manufacturing industries of California; was United States Senator in 1885-91; and founded, with his wife, the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, as a memorial of their only son. Senator Stanford was chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds, and a member of the committees on civil service and retrenchment, education and labor, fisheries, and naval affairs.
He died in Palo Alto, Cal., June 20, 1893.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Watervliet,
A city in Albany county, N. Y., formerly the village of West Troy; on the Hudson River opposite the city of Troy.
The city has large commercial interests by reason of its location at the head of navigation on the river and at an entrance of the Erie and Champlain canals into the river, and its direct communication by river and canals with lakes Champlain, Erie, and Ontario.
It is best known, however, as the seat of an extensive arsenal, established by the United States government in 1807, and comprising one of the largest plants in existence for the manufacture of heavy ordnance, and shot, shell, and mounts therefor.
The arsenal and the large stone magazines for powder and ammunition are within a reservation of about 110 acres of ground, which is bisected by the Erie Canal. This arsenal was kept busy during the Mexican and Civil wars in preparing the heaviest kinds of war material, and in recent years has been noted for its production of the improved ordnance prov