Begun by three business partners , the company set up its manufacturing facilities in what is today the Arena District producing inexpensive buggies and dashboards , and quickly saw success . At its height it employed 1,200 people and was producing 100 buggies a day which were sold in every state in the United States . The company was one of the city 's major employers and a significant portion of the city 's buggy manufacturing economy . After the turn of the century it oriented itself toward production of electric vehicles and , later , of automobiles . Crippled by the Great Flood of 1913 and unable to compete with cheaper alternatives like the Model T , the company eventually went bankrupt in 1913 , reorganized , and closed its doors a few years later
Great Flood of 1913
Great Flood of 1913
Columbus Buggy Company