It was called "Fordlandia." Leonor Weeks DeCeco was 8 years old when she joined her father in Henry Ford's jungle utopia. "We had everything that we really wanted. We had a swimming pool ...

Hours upriver, the lost city of Fordlandia appears portside ... a recreation center, a community pool, a theater to screen Hollywood movies, a golf course, a sawmill, and a powerhouse to deliver ...

The first to build a swimming pool, a cinema, street lamps — an ... a historian and the author of “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City.” ...

The first to build a swimming pool, a cinema, street lamps – an ... a historian and the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. By some measures, Ford ...

Workers even had a swimming pool, movie theater and ice-cream shop. When it was complete, the founder of the Model T Ford decided to name it Fordlandia. The workers were paid 35 cents an hour ...

Fordlandia was created by Henry Ford who took ... There was also a golf course and swimming pool for everyone to enjoy in their downtime. The biggest attraction was its tall water tower that ...

The town, dubbed Fordlandia, was more than an industrial operation — it was Ford's attempt to establish a picturesque American society. Here's how Fordlandia was founded before falling apart.

According to Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, Ford never consulted any sort of expert on rubber cultivation; he just sent a bunch of ...