Plymouth’s Air Rifle Industry (Images of America)

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Within the past due 19th century, the Rockwellian town of Plymouth, Michigan, become the breeding ground for competitive air-rifle companies, putting this still-thriving suburban Detroit community at the map. Plymouth’s Air Rifle Industry hones in at the three air-rifle companies and the spin-off .22-caliber rifle company that dominated the Plymouth landscape for years. William “Philip” Markham and his company, the Markham Air Rifle Company, first received an air-rifle patent in 1887. The Plymouth Iron Windmill Company entered the contest in 1888, when founder Clarence Hamilton introduced his prototype to the board of directors. After firing the rifle, general manager Lewis Cass Hough declared, “Boy, that’s a Daisy,” and the Daisy air rifle used to be born; the corporate used to be renamed in 1895. The Plymouth Air Rifle Company opened in 1888 and ceased to exist after its building burned in 1894. Hamilton went directly to develop a .22-caliber rifle and began the Hamilton Manufacturing Company in 1898. The rifle era ended when the last of the competitors, Daisy, moved to Rogers, Arkansas, in 1958.

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