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John B.

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Here's a few pictures well more than just a few pictures, I took last week while we were in Dearborn at the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfeild Village and the F-150 truck plant. If you have never been there you need to go. In 1980 a 60yr old man I worked with told me I had to see Greenfield Village. I was 20 at the time. I really enjoyed it and want to go back.

Henry Ford's childhood home is there. The Wright Brothers Bicycle shop, store and childhood home is there. Wilbur Wright helped in moving the Bicycle shop to Greenfield Village. Henry Ford moved many homes of famous people who made world history, to this 80 acres what is called Greenfield Village. Four buildings belonged to Thomas Edison.

The last picture shows the machine shop Henry built to train his apprentice machinist. The drill press had a 2-1/2" drill bit in it.
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saw the henry ford museum a month ago ,, WHAT A SITE, that big o ALLEGHENNY locomotive is a monster of POWER . got to see a 57 Desoto fireflite like my dad had too ,.. I wanna go back again and see greenfield and other sites ,,. hope to take my grown kids and grankids
 
John B.,

Would love to see it all in person. Great photos - thanks for posting them. Looks like it was a fun trip.

Love the old Model T suspended in an exploded view... very cool display! Also love the photo of the old general store.
 
I was there in 1967, high school senior trip, all I remember is spending to nights in Detroit and couldn't leave the hotel, something about a little rioting going on. Then on to the Montreal worlds fair. Niagara Falls was pretty cool, and a boat ride on the St. Laurence River/ Seaway? Wish I was 18 again.
 
Henry Ford owned thousands of acres in the UP and had a few plants up there. They would harvest the trees on the Ford property and make the wooden parts for their cars. The one plant Ford donated to I think NMU, which is now a museum and research station. Don't remember the name of that one, drove by it a few weeks ago. The other was in Kinsgford, which eventually made charcoal. Kingsford Charcoal was part of a Henry Ford deal, with another guy of the last name Kingsford.
 
Alberta? Seems I remember a forestry research center up that way, IIRC MTU ran it. I used to drive buy it when I went to Calumet Air Station to count their bullets.
 
It has been 20 some years since I have been there and would sure like to do it again. I am sure they have made many changes. I would have to do it now in a wheelchair as well as Dixie and it most likely will not happen. I will have to enjoy it thru pictures such as yours.
 
Heading up there on the 10th. Going to spend all week seeing the Ford sights. Really looking forward to it. Thanks for the pics.
 
I've been to the museum and Greenfield Village at least a dozen times, and every time I discover something new. For example, there's a streetcar from Ft. Collins, Colorado (my old college town) in the museum. Greenfield Village has its own railroad roundhouse where maintenance is performed on their collection of locomotives. One could spend a couple of hours just looking at the vast collection of steam engines.

The docents always have interesting stories to tell. For example, there's a watch repair shop in the front of a store in Greenfield Village. When Henry Ford needed a break, he would take a few broken watches to the shop, sit down and repair them. Visitors to Greenfield Village were often unaware they were watching Henry himself fixing watches.
 
Been probably 50 yrs since I've been there. I'm a lifelong Detroit area resident and worked for over 10 years less than 10 minutes from the place and went by it frequently on our way to lunch. A shame that I didn't take the time to go there after work or on weekends now. Maybe when I retire next year. Nice Pix, thanks for sharing.
 
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