DAY 38a
Week 6
DETROIT ~ The Henry Ford Museum (Michigan, USA)
Friday July 28th, 2006
TODAYS MILEAGE – 210 miles or 338 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 5305 miles or 8538 kilometres
The Henry Ford Museum (also known as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, and more formally as the Edison Institute) is a large indoor and outdoor history museum complex and a National Historic Landmark in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, USA.
Named for its founder, the noted automobile industrialist Henry Ford, and based on his desire to preserve items of historical significance and portray the Industrial Revolution, the property houses a vast array of famous homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana.
The collection contains many rare exhibits including John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, and the Rosa Parks bus.
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