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Richmond Hill has a historical connection to industrialist Henry Ford. [5] Ford used the town, formerly known as Ways Station, as a winter home and philanthropic social experiment, building the complex known as the Ford Farms along the Ogeechee River in the 1930s.
Fair Lane was the estate of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford and his wife, Clara Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan, in the United States.It was named after an area in Cork in Ireland where Ford's adoptive grandfather, Patrick Ahern, was born.
Buckminster Fuller's prototype Dymaxion house, in the Henry Ford Museum This 4-4-0 locomotive at the Henry Ford Museum was originally built in 1858 by Rogers Locomotive Works as the “Satilla” for the Atlantic & Gulf RR in Georgia. In 1924, Henry Ford had it restored in his Rouge Factory, and named it the “Sam Hill” in honor of an ...
Robert A. Long House: 1910 Beaux-Arts style: Henry Ford Hoit: Kansas City: Today, the Kansas City Museum Mack B. Nelson House: 1914 Romanesque Revival: Henry Ford Hoit: Kansas City: Built for lumber magnate Mack Nelson, now a private residence Samuel Cupples House: 1890 Romanesque Revival: Thomas B. Annan St. Louis: Today, a museum
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism.
Henry Ford House may refer to: Henry Ford Estate, part of the Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida; Henry Ford Birthplace, a house in the Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan; Henry Ford House, a house in the Boston-Edison Historic District in Detroit, Michigan; Henry Ford Square House, a house in Garden City, Michigan
The hospital system has taken over the stewardship of the 118-year-old Thistle Hill mansion after receiving it as a gift from historic preservation non-profit Historic Fort Worth.
John M. Pennington died in 1929, and the house has soon purchased by automotive magnate Henry Ford, who purchased and restored the property in the 1930s. [3] He used the surrounding farmland to conduct experiments on soybeans. [2] Ford later sold the property, and it remains privately owned.