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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 5, 2019
Caption: 1895 Duryea Plaque
(mounted on ground in front of sculpture)
Additional Description: 1895 DuryeaConstruction on the original car began early in 1894 in the Russell Machine Shop, which stood to your right, and completed later that year in the Stacy Building, which is in front of you.

It was the first practical gasoline-powered automobile constructed in America and went on the country’s first motor sport event on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1895.
Submitted: July 14, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p483857
File Size: 7.749 Megabytes

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