Holmes and Jesse B. Bronstein discovered how to produce a stable nitrostarch while working at DuPont's Eastern Laboratories.

[3] Walter O. Snelling, who became director of research at Trojan, worked for the U.S. Bureau of Mines on some aspects of the Panama Canal project, and invented a detonator that could be fired underwater.

[6] On November 23, 1906, most of the apparatus for the new Trojan powder works at Overton, eight miles north of Pueblo, Colorado had arrived.

[7] The products of the Trojan Powder Factory were shipped on the Southern Pacific railway from the San Lorenzo railroad station.

[1] In 1913 Trojan powder was provided to all primary lookouts in Rogue River National Forest for use in signaling when a fire was seen, assuming the phone lines were out of order.

[10] During World War I (1914–18) the Trojan Chemical Company expanded the plant in Allentown to manufacture explosives and load them into grenades and mortar shells.

[4] Trojan was one of a small number of explosives companies at the time, and obtained large orders from the British, French and Italians.

[13] Walter O. Snelling (1880–1965), a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (1907–10) and the Bureau of Mines (1910–12) joined the Trojan Powder Company in 1917 after a period of self-employment.

[16] In January 1936, Trojan supplied nitrostarch explosive for test to compare this to TNT for the purpose of demolishing obsolete concrete structures of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the Norris Dam area.

[19] In 1940, the Trojan Powder Company obtained a contract to operate the Plum Brook Ordnance Works in Sandusky, Ohio.

[21] The United States Army Ordnance Department took back control of the site in December 1945 and started decontamination.

[23] On 7 January 1947 the New York Times reported that three ex-employees from the Sandusky plant were suing Trojan for $30 million in back pay plus damages on behalf of 10,000 workers.

[24] Trojan Powder had a plant at 400 E. Highland Ave. in San Bernardino, California that was destroying in a forest fire in November 1956.

[26] The Trojan Powder Works manufactured gunpowder and dynamite on a 634 acres (257 ha) site beside the Columbia River, a distance of 4 miles (6.4 km) from Rainier, Oregon.

[28] Trojan acquired a plant near the entrance to Spanish Fork Canyon, previously owned by Cytec Industries of Delaware and Mallinckdrodt Inc. of New York.

Trojan produced formaldehyde, pentaerythritol, polyols used in alkyd resins, synthetic drying oils, vinyl stabilizers, fire retardant coatings, organic nitrates used in rocket propellants, and inorganic chemicals for various purposes.

[33] The 480 acres (190 ha) explosive plant at the entrance to Spanish Fork Canyon in Utah had contaminated the groundwater and soil.

[35] This building and the adjacent Allentown National Bank were abandoned by the 1990s and remained empty until 2005, when they opened as a unified senior living apartment complex.