TRANSPORTATION
The museum's collection of cars, trucks, bicycles, carriages, and sleighs represent the varied modes of transportation that were once used to travel on our early Washington County Maryland roads. Many were manufactured or purchased at businesses in Washington county and Frederick county Maryland.
Hagerstown's automotive history began with the innovative ideas and determination of transportation pioneers M.P. Moller and Albert Pope.
Mathias Peter Moller a Danish immgrant,was born in 1854 in Ostermarie Bornhom Denmark. He founded the companies that built the Dagmar, Crawford, and the Astor.
Read more here: www.coachbuilt.com/bui/m/moller_mp/moller_mp.htm
Colonel Albert Pope, was born in 1843 in Boston Massachusetts. He founded the automobile group who built the Pope-Tribune automobile and the Pope-Tribune bicycle. In conjunction with the League of American Wheelmen Pope initiated the Good Roads Movement.
Hagerstown's automotive history began with the innovative ideas and determination of transportation pioneers M.P. Moller and Albert Pope.
Mathias Peter Moller a Danish immgrant,was born in 1854 in Ostermarie Bornhom Denmark. He founded the companies that built the Dagmar, Crawford, and the Astor.
Read more here: www.coachbuilt.com/bui/m/moller_mp/moller_mp.htm
Colonel Albert Pope, was born in 1843 in Boston Massachusetts. He founded the automobile group who built the Pope-Tribune automobile and the Pope-Tribune bicycle. In conjunction with the League of American Wheelmen Pope initiated the Good Roads Movement.