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Henry Ford also was an avid collector of Americana. (He visited Henry Chapman Mercer at Fonthill and sometimes competed with him for purchases, to Mercer’s annoyance.) In 1933, Ford opened to the public a museum to show his collection and an associated historic site called Greenfield Village, located in Dearborn, Michigan, with the goal of re-creating Colonial times. It was just a few miles from his enormous River Rouge automotive plant. The juxtaposition was perplexing.
Craft: An American History
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