Item Info
Item No: arcb00008
Title: Haynes Memorial
Media Type:
Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
Notes:
Haynes Memorial- July 8th, 1922
In commemoration of Elwood Haynes of Kokomo, Indiana. The inventor, designer, and builder of America's first mechanically successful automobile. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety three. This tablet marks the road and starting place where Elwood Haynes on July 4, 1894, seated in America's first car, made the initial run. Here, too, was the birthplace of a new era of a transportation the nucleus and beginning of the now gigantic automobile industry. 1893-4
Dedicated by Indiana historical commission and Hoosier state automobile association.
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