Q: In 2012, we took the Magic Behind Our Steam Trains tour. At the end, the guide did a flip chart talk and on one of the charts was “Greenfield Village” in Dearborn, Michigan. My question is: What was so important about “Greenfield Village” that it deserved to be mentioned? Note that “Greenfield Village” does have a steam train running around the park, a hub and spoke design, and a steamboat going around an island.
Nicholas, Wyandotte, Michigan
A: Walt Disney had visited Greenfield Village, and the Henry Ford Museum, and it seems obvious that he remembered things he had seen there when designing his own park—Disneyland.