Milford, Michigan

Our last stop in Michigan was Camp Dearborn, in Milford, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit. This is very close to where we both grew up and near the home of Virginia's sister and brother-in-law.

We had FHU site #100.

While in the area, we made a stop at Ray and Marge's home in Oakwood Cemetery and did a little cleaning up around their stone bench.

The four of us went to the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation for a day trip. This is a top-rated museum that none of us had visited in over 40 years. 

In the Agricultural Section, we spotted this 1952 Ford Model 8N Tractor, just like the one Kurt used as a teen working at Uncle Walter's house.

Stationary Steam Engine built in 1855

This is one of 50 Chrysler gas turbine cars, made in 1963.

In the summer of 1963 Virginia and Cathy's father, who worked for Chrysler, was asked to drive one of these experimental cars from Detroit to Somerset, Pennsylvania. We made it a family vacation. Raymond, the youngest, was assigned the center rear seat on top of the turbine. Heads turned as we drove down the road. It was quite a memorable ride.

This is a replica of an 1831 "DeWitt Clinton" Steam Locomotive. The train has unusual passenger cars which are actually stagecoaches on train wheels.

President Abraham Lincoln was sitting in this rocking chair during a production of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, when he was assassinated on April 14, 1865.

This is the bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. The bus was once in ruins and sat in a rusted storage shed before The Henry Ford Museum acquired it in 2001.