![]() ![]() It became the first true repeating rifle and a favorite among the Northern troops at the outbreak of the Civil War. Because it was easy to reload and could fire rapidly, the Henry was said to average one shot every three seconds. ![]() In 1860, the company developed the Henry Rifle, which had a tubular magazine located under the barrel. Obviously, this type of gun was a vast improvement over the muzzle-loading rifles of recent times, but Winchester still saw room for advance. In 1857, he took over the assets of a firm which made the Volcanic Repeater, a rifle that used a lever mechanism to load bullets into the breech. The young man’s name was William Wirt Winchester and he was the son of Oliver Winchester, a shirt manufacturer and businessman. Although she was petite and stood only four feet, ten inches, she made up for this in personality and loveliness.Īt the same time that Sarah was growing up, a young man was also maturing in another prominent New Haven family. Her beauty was also well-known by the young men about town, despite her diminutive size. She was well-received at all social events, thanks to her musical skills, her fluency in various foreign languages and her sparkling charm. The baby’s name was also Sarah and as she reached maturity, she became the belle of the city. Have a closer look at the entire process and the breathtaking final result in the video below.The story of the Winchester House began in September 1839 with the birth of a baby girl to Leonard and Sarah Pardee of New Haven, Connecticut. If you make a Halloween gingerbread house our biggest advice would be to scale it down a bit! Via/ YouTube Talk about attention to detail! The whole project took a lot of work and many hours to complete. For this feat of baking and icing McConnell also re-made the 7th story addition that was crumbled in the Great Earthquake. The gingerbread mansion was painstakingly set up in the Winchester Mystery House for public display. Every year when Halloween comes around it’s stuff like this that really sets the tone for the ghoulish holiday to come. ![]() The centerpiece of the house is the séance room, complete with a lit crystal ball in the center of a tiny table draped with an fondant tablecloth. ![]() McConnell lit the rooms and also included epoxy windows and shingles made of icing for the roof. The replica weighs 500 pounds and took more than 60 batches made in the home kitchen of Christine McConnell to complete. One such display for the autumn months is a grand gingerbread house replica of the spooky mansion. Today the historic home is a privately owned business that runs tours and events for the public everyday. The house survived the 1906 San Fransisco Earthquake largely unharmed save for some upper add-ons that crumbled. So, it’s no surprise then that a woman obsessed with death like Sarah Winchester (she was heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company) would have created a house like this. Features like witch windows and haint blue are just some of the quaint ways in which people used architectural details of their homes throughout history to protect their families from supernatural beings. This morbid take on the supernatural is a common feature of many old houses. The thinking behind this huge home filled with upside down towers and doors built into the second story (with no porches) was that it would confuse ghosts. The Winchester Mystery House took decades to reach its final form: a twisting, winding mansion that deceives the eye at nearly every turn. ![]()
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