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Automobiles — North Liberty
North Liberty built vehicles for the nation — horse-drawn ones. Its wagon-and-buggy works were a real factory with a real product line, and when the automobile came, the town sold, serviced and fuelled cars rather than manufacturing them. This section runs the maker test first, as the discipline requires, and lets the answer set this section's shape.
The maker test: wagons and buggies, whole — automobiles, none
1866 – into the twentieth century
The Cole Brothers' works, reincorporated in 1873 as the North Liberty Manufacturing Company, made wagons and buggies — and no automobile in any record reached. The businesses leg carries the firm whole: the planing mill of 1866…
The street record: garages, agencies and gasoline
The directory record, to 1940 and the present
What the automobile did in North Liberty, it did on Main Street, as trade. The district nomination's inventory carries a Service Garage of about 1935 among the town's contributing buildings — the motor age built into the…
The truck-works tie, at its exact strength
The commuting fact
The largest vehicle works in this town's life stands in Mishawaka, and North Liberty's tie to it is the men who drove there to build trucks. AM General's Mishawaka plant — builder of military trucks and, in its day, the Hummer …