Remington Timeline – 2016: Remington Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By G&A Staff

It’s impossibly difficult to totally understand or absorb what changes have occurred in the United States of America over the last 200 years, since 1816, which in the simplest of terms translates to more than 62,000 days.

We as a nation were only four years removed from the War of 1812. James Madison, a close friend and compatriot of Thomas Jefferson, replaced Jefferson in the White House as our fourth president and served from 1812 to 1817.

In December 1816, a dirt-poor family moved from Kentucky to Indiana with their two children in tow, seeking a new start, a new life. Settling near Little Pigeon Creek in southern Indiana and living in a small log cabin, their son would read books in the darkness of night by the light of the fireplace. He would become the 16^th president of the United States. His name was Abraham Lincoln.

During the same month of December, Indiana would become the 19^th state admitted into the Union.

The United States firearms industry was in its infancy. Samuel Colt was still 20 years away (1836) from receiving his first patent for a “revolving gun,” and Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson wouldn’t announce Smith & Wesson as a new …Read the Rest

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