Remington Timeline: 1816 – Remington is Founded

By G&A Staff

When Eliphalet Remington I moved his family westward from Connecticut to upstate New York in 1800, it was a mere twenty-four years after the Declaration of Independence and just seventeen years past the final recognition of that independence by the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain in 1783. Although the terms of that treaty had added territories that now stretched westward to the Mississippi River, the United States was still a fledgling nation, uncertain of its future and unaware of its potential.

Equally uncertain was the future of another fledgling, young Eliphalet Remington II, who was just seven years old at the time of the move. But the next sixteen years were to open huge doors of opportunity and establish the future of both the boy and the nation with almost predictable inevitability.

The stunning and unexpected Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803 suddenly doubled the size of the young nation. From the coast-hugging thirteen original colonies of the rebellion, our borders now extended across the Great Plains all the way to the majestic Rocky Mountains. A hint of the vast, rich potential of the new territory was revealed by the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. The great Westward Movement was …Read the Rest

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