Stanley Works

Stanley Works or Stanley's Bolt Manufactory is featured in this image. The building has two smokestacks with smoke or steam issues from a pipe between them. A sign beneath a pediment supported by pilasters reads: "Stanley's Bolt Manufactory." There are two men stand in the doorway. A picket fence is at the left. A man drives a horse-drawn sulky at the right. Trees, including a willow and a poplar, are in the background. Railroad tracks are in the foreground.
Early History of Stanley Tools
The manufacturing company known as the Stanley Works, appropriately takes its name from its founder, Frederick T. Stanley. After a few years' residence at the South, he returned to New Britain and resumed manufacturing. In 1842 he commenced making wrought bolts, hinges, door and chest handles, in a building on Washington Street, which had been used as an armory.