Henry Ford’s Sudbury: Hidden in Plain Sight
Join local author Aline Kaplan to find out how Henry Ford changed Sudbury in the early 20th century and what elements of his Colonial Village project remain. Henry Ford purchased the Wayside Inn in 1923 as the anchor for his planned Colonial Village—a working farming community of 300 people. He bought some existing buildings, moved structures in from other places, and built still more from the ground up. Over the years some were destroyed, but many remain. People live in some of these structures and drive past others without knowing their history. Learn which structures remain from Ford’s historic project and where to find them.