https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=LAFLIN_AND_RAND_POWDER_COMPANYLAFLIN AND RAND POWDER COMPANY - Revision history2026-04-25T08:59:27ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.1https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LAFLIN_AND_RAND_POWDER_COMPANY&diff=183565&oldid=prevRandylyon at 18:25, 9 January 20252025-01-09T18:25:22Z<p></p>
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</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LAFLIN_AND_RAND_POWDER_COMPANY&diff=183563&oldid=prevRandylyon at 18:24, 9 January 20252025-01-09T18:24:01Z<p></p>
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</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LAFLIN_AND_RAND_POWDER_COMPANY&diff=183561&oldid=prevRandylyon at 18:20, 9 January 20252025-01-09T18:20:52Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Laflin Powder Company was incorporated in 1866 to consolidate operations to compete successfully for the reduced gunpowder demand after the war. Laflin Powder Company further consolidated gunpowder manufacturing around the Orange Mill Historic District near Newburgh, New York by merger with the competing Smith & Rand Powder Company on August 24, 1869 to form the Laflin & Rand Powder Company of New York City, with Albert Rand as president. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Laflin Powder Company was incorporated in 1866 to consolidate operations to compete successfully for the reduced gunpowder demand after the war. Laflin Powder Company further consolidated gunpowder manufacturing around the Orange Mill Historic District near Newburgh, New York by merger with the competing Smith & Rand Powder Company on August 24, 1869 to form the Laflin & Rand Powder Company of New York City, with Albert Rand as president. (1)</div></td></tr>
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</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LAFLIN_AND_RAND_POWDER_COMPANY&diff=181455&oldid=prevRandylyon at 20:41, 19 May 20242024-05-19T20:41:11Z<p></p>
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</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LAFLIN_AND_RAND_POWDER_COMPANY&diff=181267&oldid=prevRandylyon at 15:54, 9 May 20242024-05-09T15:54:54Z<p></p>
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</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LAFLIN_AND_RAND_POWDER_COMPANY&diff=134745&oldid=prevRandylyon at 20:37, 24 December 20162016-12-24T20:37:07Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Laflin Powder Company was incorporated in 1866 to consolidate operations to compete successfully for the reduced gunpowder demand after the war. Laflin Powder Company further consolidated gunpowder manufacturing around the Orange Mill Historic District near Newburgh, New York by merger with the competing Smith & Rand Powder Company on 24 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">August </del>1869 to form the Laflin & Rand Powder Company of New York City, with Albert Rand as president. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Laflin Powder Company was incorporated in 1866 to consolidate operations to compete successfully for the reduced gunpowder demand after the war. Laflin Powder Company further consolidated gunpowder manufacturing around the Orange Mill Historic District near Newburgh, New York by merger with the competing Smith & Rand Powder Company on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">August </ins>24<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>1869 to form the Laflin & Rand Powder Company of New York City, with Albert Rand as president. (1)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:laflin.jpeg|300px|thumb|left|]]As early as September 1861, [[LAFLIN, SMITH AND COMPANY]] was a local agent in Dubuque for Chadbourne and Forster, the chief rival of Dubuque's [[SHOT TOWER]]. The image of the Shot Tower, which Chadbourne and Foster purchased, was used on order forms of the company after 1871 when the tower was lost to the company because of failure to pay back taxes. (2) </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:laflin.jpeg|300px|thumb|left|]]As early as September 1861, [[LAFLIN, SMITH AND COMPANY]] was a local agent in Dubuque for Chadbourne and Forster, the chief rival of Dubuque's [[SHOT TOWER]]. The image of the Shot Tower, which Chadbourne and Foster purchased, was used on order forms of the company after 1871 when the tower was lost to the company because of failure to pay back taxes. (2) </div></td></tr>
</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LAFLIN_AND_RAND_POWDER_COMPANY&diff=110784&oldid=prevRandylyon at 04:15, 13 February 20142014-02-13T04:15:50Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Laflin Powder Company was incorporated in 1866 to consolidate operations to compete successfully for the reduced gunpowder demand after the war. Laflin Powder Company further consolidated gunpowder manufacturing around the Orange Mill Historic District near Newburgh, New York by merger with the competing Smith & Rand Powder Company on 24 August 1869 to form the Laflin & Rand Powder Company of New York City, with Albert Rand as president. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Laflin Powder Company was incorporated in 1866 to consolidate operations to compete successfully for the reduced gunpowder demand after the war. Laflin Powder Company further consolidated gunpowder manufacturing around the Orange Mill Historic District near Newburgh, New York by merger with the competing Smith & Rand Powder Company on 24 August 1869 to form the Laflin & Rand Powder Company of New York City, with Albert Rand as president. (1)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:laflin.jpeg|300px|thumb|left|]]As early as September 1861, [[LAFLIN, SMITH AND COMPANY]] was a local agent in Dubuque for Chadbourne and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Foster</del>, the chief rival of Dubuque's [[SHOT TOWER]]. The image of the Shot Tower, which Chadbourne and Foster purchased, was used on order forms of the company after 1871 when the tower was lost to the company because of failure to pay back taxes. (2) </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:laflin.jpeg|300px|thumb|left|]]As early as September 1861, [[LAFLIN, SMITH AND COMPANY]] was a local agent in Dubuque for Chadbourne and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Forster</ins>, the chief rival of Dubuque's [[SHOT TOWER]]. The image of the Shot Tower, which Chadbourne and Foster purchased, was used on order forms of the company after 1871 when the tower was lost to the company because of failure to pay back taxes. (2) </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The 1878-79 through 1890-91 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed 330 Main.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The 1878-79 through 1890-91 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed 330 Main.</div></td></tr>
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