Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Fort Wayne, IN: Indiana Road Machine Co.

(Satellite)

Karen Bridge Cholminsky posted
1906 picture of Indiana Road Machine Co. sent to me by a friend.
Randy Harter Corner of Osage and West Main. Like all company generated birds-eye views of that era, the plant would have been likely 1/4 that size.
[And note the black smoke coming out of the smokestack as a sign of prosperity.]

John Claus Peters not only help invent the washing machine (Horton Washing Machine), he owned several other enterprises including Peters Box and Lumber, Wayne Hotel, and this Indiana Road Machine. [FortWayne]

We have already seen a road machinery company in Aurora, IL.

They made stone crushers as well as road graders and rollers:
From a comment by Scott Gressley on Karen's posting

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