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Sorry about how rough the audio is in this one. I forgot my windscreen and then my camera mic broke and added a bunch of pops into the tracks. Tried my best to fix it up and get it listenable.
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Ever heard of "Fordlandia" down in Brazil? When Henry Ford actually tried out a similar project in Sudbury, Massachussets a couple years before heading down to South America. This video is all about the town he tried to turn into a "living museum" and the small brook he did battle with for over a decade. Also includes the Wayside Inn.
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@truckenbxr998 6 месяцев назад

The stairs making "noise " is a true thing. They're called "nightingale" stairs. People install them to detect thieves and assassins.

@nopenheimer 5 месяцев назад

"But Mr. Ford Sir, here in Sudbury?" "Of course you haven't seen any you ignorant fools! They're NINJAS!" "I'll get right on it Sir."

@JamesThomas-kx5sj 5 месяцев назад

It was a thing in Japan centuries ago but I doubt anyone in the modern era would have them installed on purpose. Probably just squeaky. My stairs squeak and creak and definitely aren't supposed to.

@kingofsludge7262 5 месяцев назад

Where do you find those?

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 месяцев назад

@@JamesThomas-kx5sj That's how my stairs and floors are. I'll tell people the old PeeWee Herman, "I meant to do that." If I'm in my basement (where my TV room and office is) and somebody is upstairs looking to kill me, I'll hear them long before they get to me. Only a cat can walk quiet enough.

@dalesql2969 5 месяцев назад

@@JamesThomas-kx5sj The houses my grandfather built all had a couple of steps on the stairs up to the bedroom level that he made deliberately squeaky. It's an easy trick. He showed it to me when I was ten or so. He was building houses up until the late seventies until the cancer took him. When you choose the boards to make the treads, you pick the ones that are bowed slightly. and install them bowed up in the center of the tread. Also used ungalvanized smooth finish nails to nail them down. the vertical travel of the boards is only a millimeter or three, but is enough.

@tommyswoodpileadventuresan9552 5 месяцев назад

I grew up here. ive been inside all those buildings. The general store used to sell penny candy and ice cream. We'd ride our bikes there. Man, those were good times.

@tommyswoodpileadventuresan9552 5 месяцев назад

Years later, I had cocktails with my parents at the Wayside Inn. We ate some pumpkin - pudding sort of thing. Period style. That was fun times too.

@chasjetty8729 5 месяцев назад

I had the same experience. Really is something anyone would benefit from. I’d love to see kids these days have someone of that.

@donaldpiper9763 5 месяцев назад

I worked for Ford Motor Company 36 years before I retired . Old Henry set up a similar village outside of Detroit that’s still in operation today . It’s called Greenfield Village. It has period correct buildings and restaurants where they cook and serve food in dress of the day ,the place is a replica of an old village of the past. He also has Thomas Edison’s Original work shop there . He had it dismantled and reassembled there. Everything just as it was . He was good friends with Edison . Ole Henry was an eccentric man indeed .

@robkunkel8833 5 месяцев назад

Kids not riding bikes now is as disappointing as anything that has changed between my youth in the 50s and now. Why not have a place in this flat place to take kids out on bikes now? Probably too “dangerous.” I was wondering how there could be a story that would run 20 minutes but it did. A good one!

@MikeJones-rk1un 5 месяцев назад

We use to go up there and hang around in the 1970s before they built houses all around.

@fredbloggs8072 5 месяцев назад

I love the shot of the broken up old car, sitting in the stream next to Henry Ford's failed dam. Perfect irony.

@Olds_Gold 4 месяца назад

It was a dodge 😂

@TCES76 10 дней назад

@@Olds_GoldI know I bet they feel stupid 🤷🤣🤣

@robnamowicz8073 5 месяцев назад

"Man's life is a battle against water, and water usually wins." A wise man once said, thanks for this video!

@Froppledopple 5 месяцев назад

Was it a roofer?

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, water has all day every day to figure out a way around you.

@georgehanson2978 4 месяца назад

Yep. Water never gets tired and there’s always more.

@fenixiliusstrife1253 4 месяца назад

Ask any structural engineer. Water is the true enemy.

@tomp8871 4 месяца назад

Wasn't Moses 😁

@gordonsmith8440 2 года назад

“People aren’t gonna do that, right?” You’d think that! I worked at Greenfield Village for 10 years, people are VERY into it lol

@swamp-yankee 6 месяцев назад

It’s gone now right?

@cherylschantz9893 6 месяцев назад

@@swamp-yankeeno, it’s still open. Our family went 2 summers ago.

@swamp-yankee 6 месяцев назад

@@cherylschantz9893 ah, I thought of something called old greenfield village that used to be on the Mohawk trail

@bonniemoerdyk9809 5 месяцев назад

That's the kind of job I would LOVE! Other than being crippled and almost 70, I'd do it. Love me some History!!

@BobSacamano666 5 месяцев назад

South Park agrees with you.

@unclesham5507 6 месяцев назад

Campbell was a genius for milking Ford for as long as he was able to lol. I believe he could have fixed that dam at any given time.

@solariss452 6 месяцев назад

Like scraping the whole surrounding surface area clean and lining it with 6 inches of clay?

@reverenddick8562 6 месяцев назад

At least Ford was a literary genius. Some awesome books.

@BrisLS1 5 месяцев назад

Maybe his boss just gave him crappy orders, that could not work and never would? No machines, no cement mixer, and no digging allowed. Just make it work. Sounds like some IT jobs.

@chrisrageNJ 5 месяцев назад

@@solariss452that’s what I was thinking

@joecummings1260 5 месяцев назад

@@solariss452 Just what I was thinking. Wyoming Bentonite would work best

@trevordavis2429 2 года назад

Very interesting, reminds me of Mr. Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn. I had no clue he tried to make something fairly similar but with full time residents. Thanks for the research and knowledge.

@jerryschiffer272 6 месяцев назад

I immediately thought the same. Greenfield Village was apparently the runner up when this didn’t work, even down to the boys school on the premises. The chapel looks the same, the one room school house, the mill, etc

@billd9667 5 месяцев назад

Ultimate irony: the very man who “wrecked” America with his polluting “automobile for the masses” running on a hard to maintain road network pines for the olden days. Definitely a monkey’s paw wish.

@diminudivadollhaus2097 5 месяцев назад

I think it is awesome that he built something that is still standing. I like it.

@CaFPhantom11 6 месяцев назад

The ice throwing at 16:30 is pretty satisfying, thanks for sharing that moment with us!

@doug.ritson 5 месяцев назад

Sitting here in SW Florida in shorts and a T getting ready to go to work in February - it's REAL satisfying to see.

@weirdhousewivesclub 6 месяцев назад

It's so interesting to see Ford's other projects. As a Michigander from the Detroit area, I've been to the Henry Ford museum complex a number of times over the years, but only in recent years learned and then briefly visited the company town area Ford operated in the Upper Peninsula for wood milling and iron mining.

@Don-xc9yj 5 месяцев назад

Check out the Haven Hill estate in Highland recreation area & the power plant in Milford.

@donaldpiper9763 5 месяцев назад

Also go to Green Field Village outside of Detroit that Ole Henry had built. It’s still operating today a little replica village with restaurants where they dress and serve food from another time . He also has Thomas Edison’s workshop there .He had it deconstructed and reassembled there ,along with everything that was in it when Edison died .

@faulltw 5 месяцев назад

@@donaldpiper9763 I grew up in Onsted but both parents were born and raised in Detroit. This was probably his first attempt at a greenfield village.

@DrBilly90210 4 месяца назад

Fordlandia in Brazil is another one. Tried carving a rubber plantation out of the Amazon jungle when scientific understanding of tropical diseases was rudimentary and effective therapies for most of them were non-existent. I believe it was abandoned by Ford before WWII but there are fascinating videos out there of people still living in the area.

@vampsk84 3 месяца назад

@@Don-xc9yj my favorite ford estate is the pagoda house on grosse ile. you should check it out if you arent familiar, it was used for transporting alcohol during the prohibition. there was a tunnel that ran under west river dr to a small building in the woods across the street from the house that was perfect for bringing booze in and out of detroit

@FrithonaHrududu02127 5 месяцев назад

I'm a Southie guy. I've always been nuts for local history. Your channel is PHENOMENAL, I'm so glad I found it.

@terrencegibbons3351 5 месяцев назад

Southie is soo gentrified

@FrithonaHrududu02127 5 месяцев назад

@@terrencegibbons3351 yeah you ain't kidding. It actually breaks my heart because it was an awesome place to grow up. The drug thing was non-existent. If you smoked weed people would call you a junkie, nevermind dope. I owned a house there but I ended up losing it when I went to prison.

@EdHealey88 4 месяца назад

@FrithonaHrududu02127 What’s up brother! Grew up in Southie also. Old Colony and East 2nd St

@FrithonaHrududu02127 4 месяца назад

@@EdHealey88were you the inspections guy. I'm from o and third

@dawford8981 6 месяцев назад

Henry Ford was in some ways a simple man. Son of a farmer with a simple education. His mechanical ability was learned by doing and that was what he did best. He created the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan. That is the largest collection of the historical artifacts and buildings of this Country. Henry Ford like most of us had some faults but he also had many good qualities. He saved many historic buildings and artifacts by purchasing them and moving them at great expense to a central location where future generations could visit them. You should visit the Henry Ford Museum and Greanfield Village to see the many original buildings such as the bike shop where the Wright Brothers built their first airplane. This and many other places and things would have rotted or rusted away had Henry not had the foresight to save them.

@StanEby1 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for submitting this information. Ford was a great man.

@chrisrageNJ 5 месяцев назад

@@StanEby1he was also pen pals with hitler…

@smitty71XX 5 месяцев назад

Pfft!

@johnmurphy9688 5 месяцев назад

Henry Ford done business with Hitler and the Nazis he wasn't that good of a man. Pos, his family came from my part of Ireland. Screw him

@faulltw 5 месяцев назад

@@chrisrageNJ He also agreed to stop building cars and start building planes and tanks to fight Germany.

@kyleuser123456 5 месяцев назад

In the early 90s I went to a wedding at the grist mill, later in the day I learned calligraphy at the little schoolhouse while writing Mary had a little lamb. I was 6(?)Thanks for unlocking a happy childhood memory!

@JamesJansson 2 года назад

Missed opportunity on the "Pepperidge Farm remembers" joke.

@tiderover6574 5 месяцев назад

I grew up in Concord and went to this wall a few times in the 70's. I'm glad to see it open with safety fence on it. When I went it was closed and you had to sneak in, and that wall was sketchy at night. I never knew or heard about how it was made. I also went on School trips to the Wayside Inn and never heard the Ford story. Very interesting.

@faulltw 5 месяцев назад

My dad grew up as a neighbor to Henry Ford in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit, before he became rich. His father and Henry Ford would box in his basement. When we walked through Henry Ford's old house in Greenfield village my dad filled in some gaps they had about the houses history. Very cool, I am still a big Henry Ford fan.

@williamlloyd3769 5 месяцев назад

Rock wall looks like it belongs to the outer ramparts of a castle.

@lairdbob 2 года назад

This is amazingly made, incredibly engaging content about an extremely interesting subject! Thank you for the literal and figurative distance you went to make this video!

@DimeStoreAdventures 2 года назад

Hey, thank you! Really appreciate such a nice comment!

@williamhague2768 6 месяцев назад

The folks that built it and got paid for doing it, didn’t think it was bad.

@ChadDidNothingWrong 5 месяцев назад

Most people dont. The kinds of people who praise land holdouts and stuff tend to the worst kind of people in actual real life. I mean sometimes it's good sometimes it's not, but those people don't care which it is. They don't really care about anyone and just that alone proves it.

@williamhague2768 5 месяцев назад

@@ChadDidNothingWrong Define ‘land holdout’ please..

@ianmacfarlane1241 6 месяцев назад

$300, 000 in 1923 is worth $5, 381,508.77 in 2024. For 1½ acres of land, which works out at $3, 587,672.51 per acre. That's an astonishing price for any piece of land, never mind in a rural setting.

@13donstalos 5 месяцев назад

maths

@avwholesomegamer 6 месяцев назад

3:11 “A living, breathing recreation of how we used to live” is how the tourist attraction, Greenfield Village in Detroit, markets itself!

@tiderover6574 5 месяцев назад

Sturbridge Village in western Mass has one also.

@30AndHatingIt 5 месяцев назад

Mumford (spelling?) historical village in Western New York as well

@tsm688 5 месяцев назад

not unrelated, apparently a second attempt at the same thing

@adiuntesserande6893 6 месяцев назад

The trick with the cellar stairs seems likely to be true. It’s the same concept as a nightingale floor.

@damonroberts7372 6 месяцев назад

Henry Ford's attempt to turn Sudbury into some sort of idyll-museum reminds me of Marie Antoinette and her "farm" at Versailles (Hameau de la Reine), or King Charles III's pet project, Poundbury. Funny how the absurdly rich always want _someone else_ to live in their rustic utopia.

@allenatkins2263 5 месяцев назад

Except Ford didn't tax the shit out of people to build his dream.

@daveb3910 6 месяцев назад

That's actually pretty cool, and i appreciate the farmers preventing some rich dude coming in and ruining the land even though he made a museum showing the old times

@swamp-yankee 6 месяцев назад

Very old New England. Just goes to show you can’t buy your way in to the community, and you aren’t really a local for at least a couple of generations

@khylaon 6 месяцев назад

This absolutely put me in mind of Greenfield Village in Dearborn! I grew up going there on field trips and it really was exactly like how you described Ford's goal. If I remember correctly, Greenfield is even connected to the Henry Ford museum. I had no idea about the first attempt!

@faulltw 5 месяцев назад

Me too. I am from Onsted

@lisabelanger2466 6 месяцев назад

John Blake Campbell , master of the water wheel,died age 97 in Pennsylvania and is buried in Virginia

@user-lc9co9kv9j 5 месяцев назад

This guy makes me feel smart just watching these videos. That wall goes on forever! My favorite part was when he ran to the Outhouse. Did not expect that. Something very "Monty Python" about him. He's having too much fun and I am jealous. I cracked up when he said, " I've got to go look up so and so and see what happened to him".

@NekoStar 2 года назад

One of the most criminally underrated channels on yt. Each video regardless of the subject matter is full of well-researched information that's just a joy to listen to/watch for anyone who enjoys learning. Just letting you know, you may not get million of views/subs, but those of us that ARE here really appreciate you and what you do.

@DimeStoreAdventures 2 года назад

Hey thank you! very nice comment

@JohnCompton1 5 месяцев назад

Underviewed, for sure. Underrated not so much...

@NekoStar 5 месяцев назад

@@JohnCompton1 Underrated; adjective "not rated or valued highly enough." Fun, educational videos created by people who are passionate about niche subjects are not valued enough on this platform. (But you're allowed to disagree.)

@breakawaymotorsports 4 месяца назад

Old Sturbridge village is Fords dream come true.

@thyubernoob 6 месяцев назад

Ford had projects in other Countries as well..had his hand in a lot of ventures.

@stevejanek8072 4 месяца назад

I grew up in Bedford in the 60’s/70’s. My sister was married in that chapel. Been there many many times. It’s wonderful. Even took my wife’s parents there last year and enjoyed cocktails and appetizers out on the lawn. So peaceful. I would recommend a visit by anyone who can. All of you content is top notch! Thank you for that 🙏 Especially as I am a complete History Nut. Two of my friends I grew up with were direct descendants of Minuteman that fought at the Battle of Concord/ the Old North Bridge. Keep your videos coming. We all enjoy them very much!

@forensirob 6 месяцев назад

Ford trying to make a old time village is like a cross between Marie Antoinette with her pretend village crossed with Disney's desire for an Americana theme park.

@AcmeRacing 6 месяцев назад

He created one at The Henry Ford in Dearborn. He moved buildings from multiple historic sites to MI and reassembled them. The Wright Brothers' cycle shop in Dayton is a replica. The real one is in MI. Edison's lab isn't in NJ, it's in MI now. 😀

@kmeccat 6 месяцев назад

There are several in the Northeast that I can think of...and they're a wonderful idea. One near me, in Cooperstown NY is the Farmer's Museum. They brought in and reassembled all sorts of stone and wooden buildings...even an old carousel. It's not a theme park. It's actually a working farm and small town, complete with employees in period outfits. Wonderful place!

@walterbordett2023 5 месяцев назад

Olde Sturbridge Village, and Colonial Williamsburg are similar ideas.

@WindTurbineSyndrome 5 месяцев назад

Plimouth Plantation is museum.in Plymouth run as a living museum but they got a new Exec Dir slhe decided employees were too expensive fired the native Americans and decided signs and interpretive hearing devices would be better for the visitors also changed the name so no one could find it looking it up. You can imagine attendance dropped due to COVID and the 400th anniversary of Pilgrim landing was a bust after all that planning.

@jerrymiller9039 5 месяцев назад

Ford did make a historic village. It is called Greenfield Village and still runs

@loretta_3843 6 месяцев назад

Amazing what strange hobbies lurk in the hearts of the suddenly ridiculously wealthy!😄😊

@JamieElli 6 месяцев назад

Ford seems to have enjoyed taking important buildings to put in his museums. He also imported Edison's lab, a courthouse Lincoln practiced in, and the Wright Brothers' shop, home, and even garden shed to his museum in Michigan. It seems like he decided to focus on that instead. I think they even still have people acting out 19th century living.

@msmongooseable Год назад

Just finished reading about Fordlandia - what an unpleasant man!

@HANKTHEDANKEST 5 месяцев назад

He was genuinely a prick of a man.

@danielmorris7648 5 месяцев назад

What??? Litterally how did you managed to get draw that conclusion? He went to the Amazon said, "hey you guys are always talking about how you don't have any opportunities so I'm going to give the chance to make generational weath you just can't destroy the place" and guess what they did.

@redpine8665 5 месяцев назад

It's become very fashionable in America to tear down influential figures from our past if they were white males.@@danielmorris7648

@JohnnyPaycheck69 5 месяцев назад

Who ever built it did a damn fine job!

@jasonfullerton7763 5 месяцев назад

That's dam nice of you to say!

@Joan-ph2es 5 месяцев назад

Sounds like Henry Ford wanted to create another historical living museum like Greenfield Village near Detroit. I went to a lecture there one time that told how Ford and Walt Disney used to discuss innovative design principles on how to set up and run an amusement park for a mass audience based on presenting America's small town history, how much Disneyland is shaped by Ford's ideas. Their influence even spread into the culture to the extent that neighborhood subdivisions in the expanding suburbs of the time started using the design idea of being a separate entity with limited access/entries and roads that avoid all of the the gridlike regularity used with most other streets in a city. Ford succeeded creating his living museum with Greenfield Village, but not so much in Massachusetts. Very interesting video. Thanks for posting.

@tsm688 5 месяцев назад

Interesting, I was just thinking "he should speak to this disney guy" and I guess he did

@Bigelowbrook 2 года назад

Sometime you should look up the giant Bosworth gravestone in Eastford CT at Westford/Church Rd. We had always heard that he hated his family so much that he put all his money into the headstone instead of letting them inherit his money. Always wanted to know if it was true....

@DimeStoreAdventures 2 года назад

interesting, thanks for the tip!

@LetsGoEV 2 года назад

Thanks for leaving this comment, cuz we got a fantastic dimestore video out of it!!

@Bigelowbrook 2 года назад

@@LetsGoEV It was very good. ;-) I live right down the road from the grave stone.

@jaredvv86 Год назад

As a person in South Dakota I think this would be fun. And not far from how we already live

@Actuenligne 2 года назад

Love your content man. It's so atmospheric, it helps me escape a little from my everyday life.

@DimeStoreAdventures 2 года назад

Hey, thanks! Glad you like it

@andrewreda7100 2 года назад

Another great video. Your brand of story telling never gets old and I loved the image you painted of John Campbell. Legit could imagine being him going there every day and just being dumbfounded with that stream

@terrymorton7444 2 года назад

If this was today the town would have used eminent domain to seize that man's property🙁

@faulltw 5 месяцев назад

Not a private citizen

@ianmacfarlane1241 6 месяцев назад

I recently discovered your channel - I'm not from the USA, hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, but you put out wonderful content - well worth checking out.

@bonniemoerdyk9809 5 месяцев назад

My ancestors are from Glasgow area, maybe you could do some videos from your area? I'd watch!! 😊💙🤍

@ianmacfarlane1241 5 месяцев назад

@@bonniemoerdyk9809 Hi Bonnie - my immediate reaction was to think "I've never considered uploading any videos". However, I suppose there's no reason not to - I'd need to work out what to shoot, and how to go about it, which might take a bit of time. In the meantime, I will look out some Scotland specific channels for you, though I can't promise any Glasgow specific channels. I'll keep note of your comment, and if I can come up with anything I'll let you know. Where are you based yourself?

@ianmacfarlane1241 5 месяцев назад

@@bonniemoerdyk9809 Off the top of my head, @Fandabi Dozi and @Scotland History Tours are both excellent channels.

@ianmacfarlane1241 5 месяцев назад

@@bonniemoerdyk9809 Hi Bonnie: Fandabi Dozi - very engaging presenter, with channel featuring many aspects of Historical Highland life. Scotland History Tours - great presenter visiting all over Scotland while sharing history lessons. Calum - bit different perhaps. Very good presenter from Raasay sharing a wide variety of eclectic content. Seanthesheepman - a shepherd sharing his life with his Border Collies. Beautiful scenery too. Sorry I can't provide actual links, as RU-vid will take down the comment, but if you type in the name of each, exactly as I've written it the search should yield the correct results. I'll try to find more. I'd maybe start with Scotland History Tours - loads of great stories.

@13donstalos 5 месяцев назад

@@ianmacfarlane1241 my bonnie lies over the ocean

@dalesql2969 5 месяцев назад

lived in Sudbury my whole life. Never knew about the dam, or the outhouse. School trips and family visits mostly focused on the Inn, the mill, and the schoolhouse. The chapel is a popular wedding venue.

@tsm688 5 месяцев назад

museums dont' typically have exhibits about themselves :)

@EmilyTienne 5 месяцев назад

Didn’t they have imminent domain laws back then that would have forced this land owner to sell his 1.5 acres? A factory would have qualified in most states.

@myboibill 5 месяцев назад

Great video. I live 50 miles away and will make a visit in March. Thanks

@coolcarenvy 5 месяцев назад

Just went there today. The dam is around a mile away from the wayside inn itself. Look for Nobscot conservation/Fords Folly trail. The small parking area, which connects to the trail is on brimstone Lane… a very narrow hill of a road. When you park, cross the street and head on the trail going downhill, not up. There is good information on Google about it. From the car to the actual dam is about a 10 or 12 minute walk. Definitely worth the trip. Enjoy.

@smartysmarty1714 5 месяцев назад

If Henry had known about bentonite clay, he could have had that brought in and it probably would have solved his problem. I can't remember exactly, but I think it's sourced from around Arkansas or somewhere like that, mid-country.

@bobdinitto 3 месяца назад

In 1978 I lived on Route 20 in Marlborough just west of the Wayside Inn. One day a friend and I decided to go for a hike on the trails across Rt 20 from the Inn. As we walked we came upon the stone wall and marveled at its random location and bewildering purpose. While walking across the top we met an older couple who told us the story of Henry Ford and the dam that wouldn't hold water. At that time there was no fence.

@rabeccak2275 3 месяца назад

It's amazing the length of time of storytelling without any hesitation. It is great listening to you!

@chickenwing111 6 месяцев назад

The original John Brown Bell from Harper's Ferry, WV sits in a tower about 4 miles west of Wayside Inn on Route 20 in Marlborough, MA

@brianmungermusic1744 5 месяцев назад

Loved this whole presentation. Excellent research. You won my subscription.

@jguy584 2 года назад

Another great video, keep 'em coming!

@DimeStoreAdventures 2 года назад

Thank you!

@StanEby1 5 месяцев назад

In the mid 80s my wife played for a wedding in the chapel. It occurred in a huge snow storm, yet the sun came out for a while at just the right time. There was a grand Victorian horse-drawn carriage. The whole occasion was like something out of a storybook by Longfellow, one of my favorite poets. Ford, IMHO, was one of the greatest men whoever lived.

@madratter 5 месяцев назад

I grew up in Framingham the next town over. Back in '86 my older brother and his friend were driving around in his jeep at night and found access to this dam. He came back to the house and grabbed me and some of my friends. We went back at 11 pm and drove all around out there. Walking across it at midnight was a blast. No fences at the time just a gate at either end. Made several trips over the years. It used to have hundreds of acres of wood around it. Unfortunately they built huge houses almost right up to it. Some good time drinking out there with friends.

@Hermanhusband 5 месяцев назад

“Ford’s climbing wall”Stup! Great climbing wall. Change perspective!

@maggiecsiebert 2 года назад

it is our duty as dime store adventurers to get this channel to 100k subscribers, so start telling your friends

@AndrewZebrunIII 5 месяцев назад

My grandpa knew Henry Ford, he was an engineer in Buffalo, NY where Ford built plants. He said Henry Ford sent Lincoln Towne cars to pick up his skilled workers like my grandpa. I was shocked by Ford's connection to 1920s & .30s Germans though!

@bonniemoerdyk9809 5 месяцев назад

Yep, Ford & Hitler were chums! Ford's political views were not what most Americans adhered to.

@donaldpiper9763 5 месяцев назад

It wasn’t just him a lot of industrial and celebrities such as Charles Limberg were pro German much like the Mega cult are pro Russian now . History repeat’s itself. Hopefully we’ll stop it before it goes full circle this time .

@WN_Byers 4 месяца назад

It's okay. You have lived your entire life propagandized

@izkupcov8785 5 месяцев назад

What an excellent piece! Great job researching and putting this together. As someone who lives in New England and loves its’ history - this was surprisingly new to me. Thank you for introducing us to this! Great job.

@TXMEDRGR 5 месяцев назад

This reminds me of Ford's Greenfield Village Near Detroit, MI. (20900 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn, MI 48124). A fantastic 'living village" outside the Henry Ford Museum. I made a special trip there to see the museum and village and still feel it was well worth it.

@agentorange81 6 месяцев назад

I live in southeast Kentucky,the red bird national game preserve in the Daniel boone national forest, the land where red bird is was at one time owned by Ford ,people lived there long ago but now its a park and game preserve with trails and roads and campgrounds.

@TallianAdventures 5 месяцев назад

This makes me think of the movie "the Village".

@dixoncider186 6 месяцев назад

Can't believe a man would say nah I want to keep my crappie house my little yard and live broke I don't want your 6.5 million that's how much 300k is worth today could've changed the life of his whole blood line

@trent617tw 5 месяцев назад

Maybe he had no further bloodline. Maybe he didn't need the money. Maybe he was happy and had already realized that money does not but happiness.

@danielsantos4202 5 месяцев назад

I live in Southborough and work in Marlborough, it's really cool to learn about my immediate area. Drive by there all thee time and never knew Ford had anything to do with it! Keep making videos on the area, I'll be watching it all!!!

@longnamenocansayy 5 месяцев назад

fun video. great sideline on ford showing he made mistakes too, just like we all do.

@nationalskyline 5 месяцев назад

This video was so incredibly informative and entertaining! I live locally and didn't know any of this history!

@peterburke885 5 месяцев назад

My grandparents lived in Sudbury back then . He never ssid why , but my grandfather despised Henry Ford .😮

@JC-sl4hk 6 месяцев назад

Very interesting 👍👍. Thanks for sharing with us. Judy

@swamp-yankee 6 месяцев назад

I think the dam failed because of how our rocks are. The ledge is old sedimentary rock that split and turned on end, at least where I am, not far from Sudsbury. If there was a fracture in the ledge the stream ran through, which is where they usually run, it would never allow the basin to fill. Water does strange things here, and wells are quite difficult to drill in these hills.

@jonathonalsop2120 5 месяцев назад

Sounds like that little stream's the real hero, glad it won. Great history and presentation.

@metaljacket866 5 месяцев назад

Very interesting, great story.

@00leaveralone 5 месяцев назад

We had the same Mill in Clarkston, MI. Henry Ford built that, too. The mill was torn down but the pond remains. You do great work, bro. Much talent! Thank you.

@robnamowicz8073 5 месяцев назад

Yes, old Henry was a busy man in Clarkston, dam building and structures for teaching how to use his tractors. The old High School on M-15 was one of Henry's. Trails around Deer Lake are testimony to those students and their school super, Old Henry. Not a perfect man, but then again, those are rather rare, eh?

@dcorman 4 месяца назад

I remember going to the Wayside Inn on a school field trip in 1973. I was in 3rd grade. After watching this, I realize what a waste it was to take such young children to such an historic place with such a colorful history. I was way too young to appreciate it. Thank you for the video. I live 3 hours away now, I think I'll revisit with an adult perspective.

@bobnield 5 месяцев назад

Very grateful for your wit and your willingness to look at things in the way that you do. This piece is a real gem and, for me, the first of your submissions that I have watched. Very much looking forward to watching your other submissions here. Next time I'm mucking about in the woods I'll take a sip with you in mind!

@Delco42 2 года назад

Loving the variety in content! These sorts of videos are so interesting 😁

@shroomzzz 5 месяцев назад

Well done sir! Well researched, great production, very engaging!

@sammarkey672 2 года назад

Great video. Thank you!

@DimeStoreAdventures 2 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@lohengrin4009 5 месяцев назад

This video was full of so much neat information, thanks for sharing!

@alhutcheson418 3 месяца назад

I love your videos! They fill me with a particular sense of exploration that I don't quite have the words to describe. In addition, the 3:4 aspect ratio is fantastic and makes me feel like I'm in a home video or a 90s PBS doc.

@khemkaslehrling3840 4 месяца назад

That Italian farmer would find himself subjected to eminent domain proceedings today.

@noumenon3020 5 месяцев назад

I’m so glad I found this channel!

@coolcarenvy 5 месяцев назад

Great video man, I’ve been to the Wayside Inn and around the area a few times, but I never knew about the dam.

@vandalorian8777 5 месяцев назад

The oldest continuously operated inn is The King George II Inn, Bristol, Pennsylvania, opened 343 years ago in 1681

@hadhad69 5 месяцев назад

Just discovered your channel, great stuff..you have an excellent sense of storytelling

@daerth4423 5 месяцев назад

I just learned something new today, thanks. Very well done video.

@juliecoates4993 5 месяцев назад

Colonial Williamsburg is the world's largest 'living museum'. Rockefeller Was the rich guy who helped it become a destination. The Historic Triangle is worth a visit!

@Bladewing10 Год назад

Great freaking video! This is why RU-vid was created!

@TallianAdventures 5 месяцев назад

I absolutely love this history!!! Great video!

@robertheim352 5 месяцев назад

Nice video and historic review. You've got my attention!

@treeguyfly 4 месяца назад

I grew up in Sudbury and me and my friends would hang out here, I had my first kiss in the grist mill. It’s a magical place, though the ticks are fierce. I miss it so much.

@pamgoodridge7638 7 месяцев назад

So good. 👏

@robfritz841 5 месяцев назад

I like your Chapter Breaks of shattering ice sheets across the frozen pond.

@PearlofBoston 5 месяцев назад

I grew up in Sudbury and heard parts of all these stories. We use to ride our bikes down to the area and explore it. Great video.

@morefiction3264 6 месяцев назад

Pay me enough and I'll go live on a 19th century farm in North Dakota.

@moncorp1 5 месяцев назад

Nothing screams authenticity these days than a sushi restaurant next to the country store.

@jackstraw7413 5 месяцев назад

So they call it Fords Folley? Well, that just goes to show... You can do 1,000 things right and people will mock you for the one thing you screw up. And since the Inn is still there, and is an open and active tourist attraction, I personally don't see it as a failure. Informative video, I liked it. You got balls drinking water like that ....clean looking water can still contain bacteria. Be careful.