On this segment of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, Mo Rocca meets with Jim Johnson, curator of historic structures and landscapes, to learn more about the planning it takes to create a village.

Henry Ford’s idea of re-creating a historic village in Dearborn, Michigan, began to take shape when he restored his own birthplace (1919) and childhood school (1923) on their original sites. In 1926, he proceeded with a plan to create his own historic village, choosing a plot of land in the midst of Ford Motor Company property and beginning to acquire the buildings that would become part of Greenfield Village.

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