Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, was started in 1929 by Henry Ford to show case mainly U.S. technological progress; hence, the emphasis on sorts of machinery and innovations, including his own develops of the model T car. Some of the historic buildings show ordinary 19th-century life in small towns and on southern plantations. Walt Disney toured Greenfield Village to get ideas for his Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, which opened in 1955.