"Fordlandia" - A Ghost Town in the Heart of the Amazon Rain Forest - PART 1

Part I - covering the lost rubber plantation of the Ford Motor Company - Fordlandia -

Reference given to Fordlanda: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City - By Greg Landon. - Excellent read if you get the chance - a lot of the background was given from research with Greg's book - plus from many of the same references included in his book - (A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) -

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Midwest Ghost Town

Midwest Ghost Town is about exploring the history of abandoned towns and places in the Midwest and around the world- most importantly - we are here to tell the story of these places and the people who lived there.

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Dan Cline

Born and raised in the Midwest - History Enthusiast, Ghost Town and Abandon History Adventurer. Serving on several travel and tourism boards - his main passion links to heritage tourism - and covering things like museums, cemeteries, genealogy studies and ghost towns --and most importantly - the invaluable stories that weave themselves in between.