Greenfield Village

 In 1933, Henry Ford began the creation of Greenfield Village, an 80 acre outdoor museum where he assembled actual and replica buildings preserving much of the history of American industry and literature.

One of the initial buildings moved to the Village was the actual house in which Ford was born and raised.

From there you can walk down Main Street where you find a replica of the workshop building where Ford built his first cars, the actual home of the Wright Brothers and their actual bicycle shop, and other historic buildings.

You can take a break from walking and have a ride in a Model T Ford that is at least one hundred years old and still running eight hours each day.  They are proven remarkable vehicles.  Ours was a 1914 model year.

Trish and I also took more than one ride on the steam train pulled by a beautiful 1920 Baldwin locomotive.

Ford recreated Thomas Edison’s New Jersey and Florida workshops as the holding place for the actual contents of those buildings assembled following Edison’s death.  You can see the whole layout of his invention space from the light bulb to the phonograph and all sorts of things in between.

It is overwhelming to take it all in.  There are the homes of Robert Frost, Luther Burbank, Thomas Edison,  Noah Webster, George Washington Carver, and others.  The workshops are too many to mention.  

This is a great place for any age to visit.  We will come here again…it takes more than twice to do it justice!