The origin story of the first Remington…
1828 CE
One holds that the younger Remington wanted to purchase a rifle and lacked the money to buy one so he made his own.
The other states that he forged a barrel from wrought iron to see if he could build a better rifle than he could buy.
Both versions have him taking the barrel to a gunsmith to have it rifled.
Eliphalet Remington II had forged his first rifle barrel as a young blacksmith in 1816 and finished second place in a local shooting match with it.
Despite not winning the match, he had proceeded to make barrels to meet the growing demand for flintlock rifles in the Mohawk Valley.
With the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, connecting Buffalo with Albany, commerce in the Mohawk Valley has expanded remarkably as has the demand for rifle barrels.
To meet the increased demand for rifle barrels, in 1828 the Remingtons move their forge and foundry from its rural setting to one hundred acres (point four square kilometers) of land they had purchased astride the canal and abutting the Mohawk River near a town at this time called Morgan's Landing (later Ilion), New York.
The move coincides with the elder Eliphalet's death, and Eliphalet II assumes control of the business.
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