Haynes Automobile Plant
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A photograph from an unknown event about 1915, showing the Haynes auto plant on South Main Street in Kokomo. Manufacturing peaked in 1916, but the operation was shut down in 1924. The buildings shown were used by other businesses for a time, then razed. The administration building remains as an apartment building, and one of the newer factory buildings is now an auto recycling company.
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The Haynes Museum
The Gas Boom of the late 1800s kicked off a population explosion, bringing people of all skills, social backgrounds and educational levels into the area. They arrived with new ideas and ways of thinking. One such person was Elwood Haynes.
Haynes…