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February is a busy month for New Bern, as history goes. I don’t know why. You wouldn’t find me making history on the coldest month of the year. Some samples:
In 1903 Gilbert Waters, began building the second Tarheel-made car: the Buggymobile, on February 6. He built it by cannibalizing the state’s first homemade car which he had also built, back in 1900.
Waters was a carriage-maker, working with his father’s Gilbert H. Waters Buggy Company, located where the fireman’s museum is today.
Waters dreamed of building a business making cars ever since he read of the Duryea brothers who built a car in Massachusetts in 1893. He watched the rattle-trap horseless carriages in Baltimore a little later and put his mind to building that car.
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