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• 1918
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Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford at Firestone Farm, Columbiana County, Ohio, 1918

Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone went on several camping trips as "vagabonds," a group that also included Thomas Edison and naturalist John Burroughs. In August 1918, Ford met Firestone at his old homestead near Columbiana, Ohio, (now in Greenfield Village) before joining Edison and Burroughs in Pittsburgh. The foursome then traveled through Appalachian Mountains for the next couple weeks.

• circa 1924
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Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford at the Wayside Inn, circa 1924

• 28 August 1916-09 September 1916
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"In Nature's Laboratory : Commemorating Our Vacation Trip of 1916, August 28th to September 9th"

The Vagabonds -- Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs -- enjoyed their annual camping trips taken from 1916 to 1924. Burroughs chronicled the group's 1916 journey in the elaborate scrapbook In Nature's Laboratory. Burroughs, Edison, and Firestone traveled through the Adirondack Mountains and Vermont. Ford couldn't make the trip that year.

• circa 1915
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Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone with Luther Burbank in San Francisco, California, circa 1915

• June 29, 1985
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Program of Events for the Dedication of the Harvey S. Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village," June 29, 1985

In 1983, the Firestone family donated their circa 1828 Columbiana County, Ohio, farmstead to Greenfield Village. The farm had been the boyhood home of Harvey Firestone, who later became a tire and rubber magnate and friend of Henry Ford. On June 29, 1985, descendants of Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone along with former U.S. President Gerald Ford helped dedicate the newly installed farm.

• September 16, 1936
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Harvey Firestone, Jr, Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford. Leonard Firestone, Russell Firestone, Columbiana County, Ohio, September 16. 1936

• August 03, 1925
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Harvey S. Firestone and His Sons on the 25th Anniversary of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, August 3, 1925

• circa 1921
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Coffeepot Used on Henry Ford's "Vagabonds" Camping Trips, circa 1921

Between 1916 and 1924, industrialists Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, and naturalist John Burroughs, took several camping trips together. These self-named "Vagabonds" camped in a style appropriate to wealthy gentlemen. Numerous support staff drove and maintained the vehicles, set up camp, started fires, did the cooking, made the coffee, and took photographs.

• 1923
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Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and E.G. Kingsford, Ford Homestead, Dearborn, Michigan, 1923

Friends Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison posed with E.G. Kingsford, Ford's cousin-in-law, in front of Ford's Dearborn, Michigan, birthplace. Kingsford helped manage Ford's extensive northern Michigan lumbering operations that supplied wood for Model T cars. Wood wastes from these operations were converted into charcoal. The popular Kingsford charcoal brand was named in Kingsford's honor.

• 1882-1889
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Firestone Farmhouse

Benjamin and Catherine Firestone raised their three children in this farmhouse, including tire maker Harvey Firestone. Originally located near Columbiana, Ohio, the 1828 house was updated in 1882 to appear more stylish and up-to-date. The traditional Pennsylvania German layout of the Firestone's farmhouse was transformed, with a central foyer, separate dining room and kitchen, a sitting room, closets, wallpaper, and fancy new furniture.