The city got its start during World War I when the federal government established it as
a gunpowder manufacturing center, hence its name.
Today Laflin & Rand's legacy continues in the Alliant Powder Company, a former subsidiary of Hercules that specializes in military
gunpowder manufacturing.
Not exact matches
Carell hooks up with New York native Bennett Miller (whose directorial CV includes 2005's Capote and 2011's Moneyball) along with the incredibly versatile Mark Ruffalo and an ever - more watchable Channing Tatum on the set of the inauspicious Liseter Hall Farm — some 200 acres of land acquired and later expanded upon by the wealthy Du Pont family, a prominent American clan built primarily upon the
manufacturing of
gunpowder.