McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, September 2007

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Digital image

Subject Date

September 2007

Creators

Creator Notes

Photographed by Michelle Andonian.

Location

Object ID

2008.171.424

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Technique

Digital photography (Digital camera)

Color

Multicolored

Keywords	United States, Michigan, Dearborn Digital images Digital photographs Photographs Open-air museums Houses McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873 William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village

Artifact
William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace
This log home is typical of Scots-Irish log structures built in the densely forested area of southwestern Pennsylvania during the late 1700s. Anna and Alexander McGuffey lived here for five years and had three children before moving west to Ohio. Their second child, William Holmes (1800-1873), went on to create the popular Eclectic Readers for frontier schoolchildren.