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Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant, 701 Kelly Road, Cumberland, Allegany County, MD
Summary
Significance: The Kelly-Springfield Tire Plant is a technologically and historically significant industrial complex in Allegany County. The facility was in operation from 1921 until 1987 and served as Kelly-Springfield's only manufacturing plant between 1925 and 1962. The plant was critical to the development of Cumberland during the twentieth century, and is an important record of an early tire manufacturing plant. The design, construction, and modification of the plant reflect the evolution of the tire manufacturing process.
Survey number: HAER MD-102
Building/structure dates: 1918-1923 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1945 Subsequent Work
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Date
1945
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
S. Diescher & Sons
Necarsulmer, Edward
R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Incorporated, contractor
Institute for the History of Technology & Industrial Archeology (IHTIA), contractor
Nicely, John, photographer
Location
Cumberland (Md.), 39.64589, -78.77749
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
