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Some men collected coins or stamps; Henry Ford collected historic buildings.  Greenvillle Village, established in 1929, displays his collection of places dismantled, moved and reconstructed -- ranging from the courthouse in Illinois where Lincoln practiced to the Wright Brothers cycle shop to a Cotswold cottage from England.  Tour the village in Model Ts or horse-drawn carriages -- the village is microcosm of early American life.  Ford was friends with Thomas Edison who donated his Menlo Park, New Jersey buildings to the village, including the lab where the light bulb was invented.

Greenville Village

Dearborn, Michigan

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