Eli Whitney Armory Site Historical and Descriptive
ELI WHITNEY ARMORY SITE HAER CT-2 West side of Whitney Avenue to east side of Mill River, near Armory Street Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut HAER CONN, 5-HAM, 3- HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA PHOTOGRAPHS ELI WHITNEY ARMORY SITE HAER CT-2 (Page 1) HAER HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD CONN, 5-HAM, 3- ELI WHITNEY ARMORY SITE HAER CT-2 Location: West side of Whitney Avenue to east side of Mill River, near Armory Street Hamden, New Haven County, Connecticut Date of construction: 1798+ 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 divi sion of labor and the use. of power \ driven machinery. Parts of this report: 1: Site History, by Peter Stott with T. Allan Comp and H. McKelden Smith, March 1975 2: Report on the Archeological Inves tigation, by David Starbuck, September 1974 3: Labor at the Whitney Factory, by H. McKelden Smith with T. Allan Comp, February 1975 4: New Evidence on the American System, by T. Allan Comp, January 1975 It is understood that access to this material rests on the condi tion that should any of it be used in any form or by any means, the author or draftsman of such material and the Historic American Engineering Record of the National Park Service at all times be given proper credit. ELI WHITNEY ARMORY SITE HAER CT-2 (Page 2) This report must be read in conjunction with the other HAER material for the Eli Whitney Armory: Identification number Barn HAER CT-2A Forge Building HAER CT-2B Fuel Storage Shed HAER CT-2C Boarding House HAER CT-20 Photographs referred to in the following pages can be found by means of the identification numbers above plus a photograph number; for example, photograph number 5 of the barn is desig nated HAER Photo CT-2A-5.
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