---This cache is part of the Fayette County Bicentennial GeoTour---
Photo: Connersville News Examiner
Such all-but-forgotten names as Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, Ansted, Empire, Lexington and McFarlan were associated with this east-central Indiana city that came to be known as “Little Detroit”. Industry was so concentrated in Connersville during its heyday that the city qualified as the manufacturing capital of the world, per capita.
"The automotive era of Connersville dates to 1909, when the incredibly luxurious McFarlan first went into production. The following year, Lexington moved to Connersville from its namesake city in Kentucky. Next came Empire, which built the Little Aristocrat. After Lexington folded in 1926, Erret Lobban Cord moved Auburn production to a factory complex known as Auburn Central. The “Baby Duesenberg” designed in Connersville eventually became the Cord 810 and 812. Connersville also was home to suppliers, including Central Manufacturing, which made bodywork for the 1940 Packard Darrin, along with some 500,000 Jeep bodies during World War II. Stant remains active with a major Connersville plant to this day." -Jim Donnelly
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