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The Hotchkiss Golf Course is a nine-hole golf course of approximately 3,000 yards, designed by Seth Raynor in 1924 and rated by Golf Digest as one of the 25 best nine-hole courses in America. [113] Hotchkiss also has the Baker Complex, including synthetic Sprole Field and many tracks, courts, and fields; three ponds; and extensive hiking trails ...
Alumni of the Hotchkiss School, a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut of the New York metropolitan area Contents Top
In 1884, Hotchkiss and William Armstrong & Co. of England agreed to manufacture Hotchkiss guns at the Elswick works. Hotchkiss died in 1885, and in 1887 the affairs of both companies were placed under the French corporation and renamed respectively, the Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Cie of France and the Hotchkiss ...
Herman Hotchkiss (July 1, 1765 – February 20, 1836) was an early settler of East Haven, Connecticut and is credited as the founder of Fair Haven, Connecticut. While he was not the first European to discover the area—others had done so in 1639—Hotchkiss played a pivotal role in its development through his numerous investments, which ...
Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Compagnie was a French arms and, in the 20th century, automobile manufacturer first established by American gunsmith Benjamin B. Hotchkiss. He moved to France and set up a factory, first at Viviez near Rodez in 1867, manufacturing arms used by the French in the Franco-Prussian War of ...
George Woodward Hotchkiss (October 16, 1831 – March 1, 1926) was an American nineteenth-century businessman and journalist who wrote about the lumber industry. He was co-founder and editor of several newspapers, including what the Journal of Forest History has considered to be North America's first lumber newspaper, Lumberman's Gazette . [ 1 ]
A Hotchkiss design from the French arms firm, Hotchkiss & Company founded by Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, (1826–1885), "it was the first original breech-loading gun in the U.S. Army". [2] It replaced the earlier M1841 mountain howitzer used since about 1837, a decade before the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848 in U.S. Army service.
Jedediah Hotchkiss (November 30, 1828 – January 17, 1899), known most frequently as Jed, [1] was a teacher and the most famous cartographer and topographer of the American Civil War. His detailed and accurate maps of the Shenandoah Valley are credited by many as a principal factor in Confederate General Stonewall Jackson 's victories in the ...