Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, June 2003
THF135762 / Interior of William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace in Greenfield Village, June 2003
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Artifact Overview
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
07 June 2003
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.P.B.116060.7
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 4 in
Width: 6 in
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ArtifactWilliam 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.
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SetRestoring Greenfield Village 2003
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Much of Greenfield Village looked quite different in 2002 from what you see today. The village was showing its age -- its crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Yet replacing the underground systems also provided an opportunity to refresh and revise Greenfield Village itself. In September 2002, Greenfield Village closed to the public and restoration began. The transformed village reopened just nine months later.