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- Gristmill near the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts, circa 1928 - Henry Ford purchased the Wayside Inn, the setting for the poems in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's <em>Tales of a Wayside Inn</em>, in 1923. Over six years, Ford spent more than $2 million restoring the inn and several adjacent buildings, including this gristmill. In retrospect, the project was something of a dry run for Ford's Greenfield Village complex a few years later.
- circa 1928
- Collections - Artifact
Gristmill near the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts, circa 1928
Henry Ford purchased the Wayside Inn, the setting for the poems in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, in 1923. Over six years, Ford spent more than $2 million restoring the inn and several adjacent buildings, including this gristmill. In retrospect, the project was something of a dry run for Ford's Greenfield Village complex a few years later.