Hazard Powder Company Wikipedia
Powder Hollow, c. 1910. School Street, looking north, c. 1910. Child laborers in a tobacco shed at Hawthorn Farm in Hazardville, 1917. Photo by Hine. History. The company was founded on the Scantic River in 1835 by Allen Loomis in an area then known as Powder Hollow, with the construction of a small gunpowder mill. A company called Loomis ...