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Eli Whitney is an unincorporated community in southeastern Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is located at the intersection of North Carolina Highway 87, and Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road. To the south is Mandale and to the west is Snow Camp. The United States Postal Service considers Eli Whitney part of the Graham delivery area.
Mulberry Grove Plantation, located north of Port Wentworth, Chatham County, Savannah, was a rice plantation, notable as the location where Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. [2] Once a thriving plantation, comprising, in 1798, some
The Pistol Factory Dwelling is a historic house at 1322 Whitney Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut.Built in 1845 and enlarged before 1860, it is an unusual example of a Greek Revival worker's boarding house, built by Eli Whitney II (son and business success to inventor Eli Whitney) to house workers at his nearby pistol factory.
Eli Whitney chose a mill at the base of East Rock, with water power from the Mill River, as the site of his gun factory in 1798, and built a boarding house for unmarried workers nearby, establishing the village of Whitneyville. [4] As shown in this map from 1868, Whitneyville originally centered at Whitney's armory.
The Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut, is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families.The museum's main building is located on a portion of the Eli Whitney Gun Factory site, a gun factory erected by Eli Whitney in 1798.
The former Alamance County high schools of Alexander Wilson, Sylvan, E. M. Holt, and Eli Whitney, were consolidated into a new high school; Southern Alamance High School. A school bond passed in 1958 to finance the consolidation. Opening day of Southern Alamance High was December 12, 1960. [4]
The William Pinto House, also known as William Pinto-Eli Whitney House, is a historic house at 275 Orange Street in New Haven, Connecticut.It is a Federal-style building of post-and-beam construction, and was built in 1810 for John Cook, a merchant.
The Eli Whitney Museum's extensive A. C. Gilbert Project includes collections, a bibliography, and pictures of Gilbert; The Gilbert Electric Eye Set with Free Downloadable Manual; Slideshow: Golden Age of Chemistry Sets; Soaring and gliding aircraft This patent was assigned to A.C. Gilbert company. A less successful venture of the company