WEBJun 25, 2014 · Once they arrived at Hagley, workers performed a variety of jobs on the du Pont's farms and their powder, textile, and keg mills. While many jobs were dangerous, working for the Du Pont Company offered relatively high wages, interestbearing savings accounts, pensions, free eduions for children, and free or lowrent housing.
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WEBThe stories Hagley tells cover centuries and chart the evolution of American industry. Hagley, the largest gunpowder manufacturer in the US, began in 1802, and its first mill opened in 1803. Unable to keep up with demand, E. I. du Pont built a new mill at the present site in 1813. A further expansion in 1837 at loion downstream later evolved ...
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WEBJul 23, 2014 · There are also papers concerning the South Brandywine Rangers (a militia unit during the War of 1812); legal agreements concerning the acquisition of property for the Delaware powder mills and the importation of Merino sheep; du Pont's shares in the Wilmington Philadelphia Turnpike Co.; rules and regulations of the Philadelphia .
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WEBDetails. Title. John Macklem's covered powder wagon with six mules. Date Created (questionable) 1895. Photographer. Gentieu, Pierre A., . Note. Powder wagon serving du Pont de Nemours Company powder yards in Wilmington, Delaware.
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du Pont de Nemours Company was established as a black powder manufacturer in 1802 by Pierre du Pont de Nemours () and his son Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (). The du Pont's purchased a mill site on the banks of the Brandywine River just North of Wilmington, Delaware.
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WEBDrawing of machinery for a barrel mill. Collector . Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre ), . Creator . Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, . Subject(s) Gunpowder Mills and millworkEquipment and supplies. Subject(s) Name . du Pont de Nemours Company. Hagley Yard. Find all items with name(s)
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WEBThe E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company photographs (Accession ) collection consists of photographs that document two separate activities. The first grouping shows an outdoor safety demonstration of Nyalite, a new explosive developed at the DuPont Experimental Station. This demonstration was probably conducted in the Hagley .
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WEBThe next year, du Pont purchased a mill site on the banks of the Brandywine River just north of Wilmington, Delaware, and began making preparations to establish a black powder manufactory. During the winter of 1802 to 1803, du Pont recruited a small workforce and began building the company's mills.
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WEBThis object encompasses the former Hagley File numbers E74_037 E74_040 and E74_06. Original Accession numbers:,,, and Another copy of is in Acc. Addition Box 6. Subject(s) Explosions Gunpowder industry. Subject(s) Name . du Pont de Nemours Company. .
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du Pont de Nemours Company is a chemical company, commonly referred to as the DuPont Company which was established in 1802 by French immigrants Pierre du Pont de Nemours () and his son Eleuthère Irénée "" du Pont (). The company began as a manufacturer of gunpowder. The du Pont's purchased a mill ...
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WEBMar 28, 1993 · Or write: Hagley Museum and Library, Box 3630, Wilmington, Del. 19807. For more about accommodations and other nearby attractions, call the Greater Wilmington Convention Visitors Bureau: 800422 ...
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du Pont de Nemours Company. Eleutherian Mills du Pont de Nemours Company. Genre . drawings. Language . English. Type of resource . still image. Extent . 1 photographic print : bw ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. Repository . Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library
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WEBJun 29, 2020 · A 235acre venue on the west side of the creek, Hagley became a nonprofit library and museum open to the public in 1972. The site includes restored mills, a workers' community, and the ancestral home and gardens of the du Pont family. Less than a mile downstream from Hagley, Breck's Mill was built in the 1810s as a cottonspinning mill.
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WEBIn 1952, members of the du Pont family donated much of the land on which the former powder yards stood, and the DuPont Company created an endowment for the Eleutherian MillsHagley Foundation for the purpose of preserving the site and establishing a museum. The site opened as a museum in 1957 and was designated a National historic Landmark .
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du Pont de Nemours Company a chemical company, was founded in 1802. The DuPont Company celebrated its 150th anniversary on July 18, 1952, on the site of the original Eleutherian Mills. This item is a black and white photograph of the 150th Anniversary time capsule being buried at Eleutherian Mills. Dates: circa 1952.
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WEBFounded by Eleuthère Irénéé du Pont (), the Brandywine River Mills became the largest maker of explosive black powder in the United States. That success resulted directly from the firm's pioneering use of gunpowder processing machinery driven by water wheels and water turbines. Divided into separate buildings to promote safety, its rolling, .
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WEBApr 9, 2024 · Count the number of Roll Mills as you walk along the Powder Yard Trail, which showcases how the DuPont Company made blasting powder and can walk from the Visitor Center to the Powderman Building, and then see more of the Roll Mills from the shuttle tour to the main house see the full trail map .
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WEBWelcome to the DuPont Company on the Brandywine Project, an interactive look at the history of the DuPont Company black powder works that operated along the Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware from 1803 to 1921. This exhibit offers users a unique experience in exploring the people, place and product that turned a small operation .
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WEBLammot du Pont () was an accomplished chemist and managed gunpowder manufacturing at the du Pont de Nemours Co. (commonly referred to as the DuPont Company). He later organized the Repauno Chemical Company to manufacture dynamite. He was the grandson of DuPont Company founder Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771 .
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du Pont de Nemours Company is a chemical company more commonly referred to as the DuPont company. The company was established in 1802 by Pierre du Pont de Nemours and his son Eleuthère Irénée du Pont the company began with the production of gunpowder. ... The du Pont's purchased a mill site on the banks of the Brandywine ...
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WEBApproximately 900 images depict powder yard sites, including the DuPont Experimental Station, either during the mills' final decades of operation or prior to, during, and after excavation and restoration work on the site in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of the remaining images depict the worker communities which surrounded the powder yards.
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WEBFeb 27, 2024 · The Hagley Museum's expert staff provides a variety of engaging demonstrations to museum guests. Along with the hydropower demonstrations at the powder yard, visitors can watch a small controlled gunpowder explosion. Plus, there's an opportunity to see a preserved 16ton roll mill that was used to produce black gunpowder.
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WEBWith the expansion into the Hagley Yards, du Pont de Nemours and Company was on its way to becoming one of the world's largest producers of explosives. ... DuPont Powder Mill. ... Powder mills were also dangerous. At DuPont's Brandywine powder mill, a packing room exploded on February 26, 1863, destroying 10,000 pounds of powder and ...
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WEBThe DuPont Company product information collection collection (Accession ) contains photographs of DuPont Company corporate events and proceedings, product trade shows and fairs, development and manufacturing processes, and the employees and facilities where the products were created. Most of the photographs were taken from the .
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WEBWorkers' Hill Community. Hagley Museum and Library seeks to inspire all people to be innovative in their own lives through investigation and exploration of our historical collections, original DuPont powder yards, and online resources. Registered 501 (c) (3). EIN: . Loed on 235 acres along the banks of the Brandywine, Hagley is .
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WEBThis digital collection features a selection of maps, largely dating to the first two decades of the twentieth century, of the Brandywine Works of du Pont de Nemours Company, now the site of Hagley Museum and Library. Image: Lower Yard of Brandywine Mills.
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WEBBroom had built a cotton mill at the site in 1795, only for it to burn down two years later. Undeterred by the land's somewhat inauspicious history, du Pont quickly got to work building his home and gunpowder mill. The house, which sits on a high bank of the Brandywine overlooking the powder mills, was completed in the spring of 1803.
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WEBThe next year, du Pont purchased a mill site on the banks of the Brandywine River just north of Wilmington, Delaware, and began making preparations to establish a black powder manufactory. During the winter of 1802 to 1803, du Pont recruited a small workforce and began building the company's mills.
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WEBThe DuPont Powder works served as a key and vital agent for the Union cause, producing nearly onehalf of the black powder used by the Union Army and Navy. Learn the fascinating stories of the du Pont family members who served in support of gunpowder manufacturing, as well as Union soldiers and sailors. Highlighted is the alarming effect .
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WEBFeb 10, 2024 · Loed at this site on land purchased by French immigrant Elueuthere Irenee du Pont in 1802, the du Pont Powder Mills manufactured black powder at three sites along the Brandywine Creek north of Wilmington. (A historical marker loed near Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware.)
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WEBDu Pont graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1890 and became assistant superintendent of the du Pont Company's black powder mills in Delaware. In 1901, he hired John J. Raskob () as his personal secretary. Du Pont had met Raskob while managing and later overseeing the liquidation of the Johnson Company in .
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WEBThe DuPont Company employed hundreds of people at their black powder yards along the Brandywine from . In addition to powdermen, DuPont hired carpenters, stone masons, machinists, blacksmiths, teamsters, bookkeepers, and boarding house operators. Working at a gunpowder factory was very dangerous.
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WEBHe mistrusted the modern business practices that he believed the younger generation would implement at the DuPont Company. He lost control of the company to cousins Alfred I. du Pont (), T. Coleman du Pont (), and Pierre S. du Pont (). In 1888, du Pont supervised the building of the blasting powder mills at Mooar, .
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WEBPhoto, Print, Drawing DuPont Powder Mill, Hagley Museum, on Brandywine River, Greenville, New Castle County, DE. View 3 images in sequence. ... powder mills Delaware New Castle County Greenville Latitude / .
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