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Patterson was born in April 1833 as a slave on a Virginia plantation. [1] [4] [5] He was the oldest of the thirteen children of Charles and Nancy Patterson.[6] [2] There are conflicting stories on how he left the plantation, he ended up living in Greenfield, Ohio, which was also the site of an underground railroad station.
In 1890, Velie returned to Moline and began working at Deere & Company as a clerk. [3] After a year, he became a sales manager. When his father died in 1895 W.L. replaced him as the corporate secretary and a member of the board. In 1902, Velie founded his first company, the Velie Carriage Company of Moline.
Velie founded Velie Carriage Company in 1902, which was successful, then Velie Motor Vehicle Company in 1908. [1] History. 1920 Model 34 Touring.
Stratford Hall is a classic example of Southern plantation architecture, built on an H-plan and completed in 1738 near Lerty, Virginia. The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the ...
Belle Meade Plantation, now officially titled Belle Meade Historic Site and Winery, is a historic farm established in 1807 in Nashville, Tennessee, built, owned, and controlled by five generations of the Harding-Jackson family for nearly a century.
The town of Amesbury, Massachusetts, was a centre of carriage-making. [1] Biddle and Smart began trading either in 1870 [2] or 1880. [3] An almost-contemporary source says that The Biddle, Smart Carriage Co. was formed by William E. Biddle, William W. Smart, and M. D. F. Steeve in 1878 and began production two years later.
The company began business in 1876 in Cicero, New York, as H. A. Moyer Carriage Company. As the era of the horse-drawn carriage came to an end, Moyer switched assembly to motor vehicles, although he continued to produce carriages. [2] [1] Moyer built large cars in the luxury $2,000 to $3,000 (equivalent to $98,100 in 2023) range.
The outbuildings associated with Summer Villa include the "Playhouse", carriage house (c. 1850), corn crib and three outbuildings. The McKay–Salmon House built in the last quarter of the 19th century and is a one-story decorated frame cottage. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]