A Dose of Black History: C.R. Patterson & Sons Company
It is likely that no invention affected the everyday lives of all Americans in the 20th century more than the automobile. The industry’s growth spurred an economic revolution across the United States as hundreds of entrepreneurs took advantage of the fact that people were transitioning from horse-drawn carriages to transportation powered by the internal combustion engine. One such company was C.R. Patterson & Sons Company of Greenfield, Ohio, makers of the Patterson-Greenfield automobile from 1915 …
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