Mike Downs, Hagley staff (left) receiving the Industrial Technology Restoration Award from Chris Coons, New Castle County Executive, during presentations of the 2010 New Castle CountyHistoric Preservation Awards. Hagley received the award for its...
Union Oil Company Float Cinderella, awarded the Grand Prize in the Tournament of Roses Parade, annual Southern California New Year fiesta which this year drew to Pasadena a crowd estimated at 1.5 million. The float portrayed Cinderella fleeing from...
McCall has engaged schooner Minerva to carry a powder order from New Castle to New York. McCall also requests that company send him additional riffle powder to meet the spring demand and supply Tench Coxe.
McCall sends company tally of gunpowder remaining in the Philadelphia magazine. He has engaged schooner Speedwell to transport powder from New Castle to Norfolk and requests company send him additioanl rifle powder to supply Tench Coxe.
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Business & finance;
McCall discusses terms of payment for saltpeter purchase. He will also engage a vessel to carry powder to Charleston from New Castle and a wagon to carry articles of Victor du Pont. McCall discusses payment of Rhode Island bills and other...
McCall reports on company drafts, the purchase of white lead, and the difficulty of engaging a Charleston-bound vessel to stop at New Castle. Also discusses the purchase of saltpeter.
Correspondence regarding Brown Shipley & Co., the "Big Bonanza," "Carrisbrooke Castle," and "Arundel Castle" shipments, and the inactive saltpetre market.
Correspondence; Gunpowder; Ordnance industry; Government contracts;
Waterman, the Philadelphia agent for the U.S. Office of Indian Trade, confirms that the ship Orleans will stop at New Castle to pick up powder for Natchitoches.
