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Ford's winter bungalow Seminole Lodge, Thomas Edison’s winter home at the Edison and Ford Winter Estates. Visitors to the Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers can view more than 20 acres (8.1 ha) of historical buildings and gardens including the 1928 Botanical Laboratory and the Edison Ford Museum.
One of the best-known landmarks and tourist spots in Fort Myers is the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford historical site. The winter estates of the inventor and the car man, now part of a museum on the ...
Fort Myers: 16: Edison Park Elementary School: ... Thomas Edison Winter Estate. August 12, 1991 ... Henry Ford Estate. September 8, 1988 ...
In 1947, Mina Edison deeded Seminole Lodge to the city of Fort Myers, in memory of her late husband and for the enjoyment of the public. By 1988, the adjacent Henry Ford winter estate was purchased by the city and opened for public tours in 1990. The combined properties today are known as the Edison and Ford Winter Estates.
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Eventually Gonzalez owned a wide swath of riverfront in Fort Myers, including the property that Thomas Edison and Henry Ford later purchased to construct the famous Edison and Ford Winter Estates. [4] As the Fort Myers News-Press later reported: "In 1872, he moved out of town to a creek that now bears his name, Manuel's Branch. In the 1890s, he ...
It passes the Fort Myers Country Club and the Edison and Ford Winter Estates as it enters downtown Fort Myers, before terminating at US 41 (Cleveland Avenue) at the historic Five Points intersection (the former terminus of SR 867, which is also the terminus of SR 80 and SR 82, making a five-way intersection). [3]
Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was noted to have travelled to his winter home in Fort Myers on Seaboard Air Line trains. Ford could arrive discreetly to his winter home (the Edison and Ford Winter Estates) on McGregor Boulevard due to the station's proximity. [13]