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From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history; made possible the settlement of a continent ...
Barnard Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Ararat, Patrick County, Virginia, United States.The original section of the house dates to 1829, with expansions about 1851 and in the 1930s.
The Town, now known as Robbins, North Carolina actually began in 1795 when gunsmith Alexander Kennedy and his family left Philadelphia to settle along Bear Creek. Kennedy set up a factory, which produced long rifles for American soldiers, near the site of the present day Robbins Water Plant.
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men".Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States.
Daniel Morgan (c. 1736 – July 6, 1802) was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia.One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he later commanded troops during the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791–1794.
Colonial American military history is the military record of the Thirteen Colonies from their founding to the American Revolution in 1775. George Washington in 1772 as colonel of the Virginia Regiment; painting by Charles Willson Peale
The Barren Fork Coal Camp and Mine Archeological District is a 210 acres (0.85 km 2) historic district near Whitley City, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.