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Nissen Wagon Works

Nissen Wagon Works is a North Carolina historical marker in Forsyth County, dedicated 1976.

US 311 (Waughtown Street) at Marble Street in Winston-Salem

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Begun in 1834 by John Nissen. By 1919, fifty wagons a day were produced. Sold in 1925. Was located here.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

A. Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika, 1830, covering the location of Nissen Wagon Works, with a pin at the marker's coordinates
A. Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika, 1830, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.
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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

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