A little trivia:
The main Winchester plant was a very large facility covering 81 acres with 3,250,000 square feet of floor space and taking up over nine city blocks.

Where and when?

The Winchester home his widow built is a creepy mofo !

New Haven, CT
In the companies earlier years, size of plant decreased as time went by.

In 1847

You win

She was haunted by all the ghost of people who died from Winchester rifles..

Does anyone know what other building his wife built?

An administrator at the V.A. Medical center in West Haven, CT told me it has a building on its grounds that his wife built as a soldiers home after the civil war.

Intro to the 1916 WRACo Catalog?

By 1979 Olin corporation realized there was no money to be made making rifles and was going to end production by 1980. So the demise of model 70’s almost came to a end in 1980..

In its day, the Winchester Power Plant was one of the most up to date and efficient private industrial operations in the country. The Power Plant boilers burned approximately 250 tons of coal daily.

That goes to show you, coal was cheap back then! I don’t know anything about coal fired power plants but, a half million pounds of coal a day?

“The wood used in Winchester gun stocks was almost exclusively American Black Walnut sourced from a 500 mile belt that ran through Missouri and Kansas. Wood grown south of this area was usually too soft and sappy and wood grown north of this area was subject to frost cracks”.

Pocono! Where was that old gumwood from they used in some of those 92 & 94 SRC stocks?

250 tons is a speck in the bucket, iirc AES Shady Point burns more than 2000 tons per day at max throttle.

Believe the gumwood was obtained mostly from the red gum tree that grows abundantly in the South and on the Pacific Coast.

Thanks! Well always called em "Gumpwood" stocks. Have a 94 SRC with Gumpwood.

Lots of Sweet Gums in east Texas.