Mifflinburg History Tour Launched for Mayfest 2012 Multi-Cache
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Mifflinburg History Tour Launched for Mayfest 2012
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architectural & history of "Buggy Town" USA. This multi will bring you through several decades of building styles from 1950's back to the 1800s. This West end section of town shows the factory based houses and buildings and old business building once associated with the production of first buggies then automobiles.
The large Red Brick factory building catty-corner from the cache was the end product of The Mifflinburg Buggy Company, started in 1897 by the “Big Three” Robert Gutelius, Harry Blair and Alfred Hopp, was the largest buggy manufactory in Mifflinburg. In 1903, Alfred Hopp left the company to open his own factory (making the two companies fierce rivals). In 1911, The Mifflinburg Buggy Company purchased the Mifflinburg Gear Company, which allowed them to make the running gear of their buggies. Under the leadership of William Sterling, the Buggy Company built and delivered its first auto bus body in 1913. Gradually the company ceased production of horse-drawn vehicles and concentrated on wooden car, truck, and bus bodies. By 1917, the Buggy Company became the Mifflinburg Body Company making as many as 10,000 car and truck bodies annually. The company produced bodies for Ford, Chevrolet and custom bodies. During the Great Depression, the company split its production to half automobile bodies, half furniture. But the company could not withstand the depression and went bankrupt in 1940.
Today, the buggy’s influence in Mifflinburg can still be seen in the the buggy traffic of the Amish and Mennonite and the architecture development as travel needs changed through time.
This Multi is designed to take you backward through our towns history and architecture. starting in 1950's
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