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1928 FORDLANDIA
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Click Selectware Button above for Details Fordlandia is a now-abandoned,
prefabricated industrial town established in the Amazon Rainforest in 1928
by American industrialist Henry Ford to secure a source of cultivated
rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of the Ford Motor
Company in the United States. Ford had negotiated a deal with the
Brazilian government granting his newly formed Companhia Industrial do
Brasil a concession of 10,000 km² of land on the banks of the Rio
Tapajós near the city of Santarém, Brazil, in exchange for a 9% interest
in the profits generated.
The project was ultimately a total failure. Despite repeated
invitations from residents and periodic promises to do so, Henry Ford
never actually visited his ill-fated jungle city.
Ford intended to use Fordlandia to provide his company with a source of
rubber for the tires on Ford cars, avoiding the dependence on British
(Malayan) rubber. The land was hilly, rocky and infertile. None of Ford's
managers had the requisite knowledge of tropical agriculture. The rubber
trees, packed closely together in plantations, as opposed to being widely
spaced in the jungle, were easy prey for tree blight, sauva ants, lace
bugs, red spiders, and leaf caterpillars, a problem absent from the Asian
rubber plantations, where transplanted Amazonian rubber trees faced no
natural predators. The mostly indigenous workers on the plantations, given
unfamiliar food such as hamburgers and forced to live in American-style
housing, disliked the way they were treated—they had to wear ID badges,
and work through the middle of the day under the tropical sun—and would
often refuse to work. In 1930 the native workers revolted against the
managers, many of whom fled into the jungle for a few days until the
Brazilian Army arrived and the revolt ended.
Ford forbade alcohol, women and tobacco within the town, including
inside the workers' own homes. The inhabitants circumvented this
prohibition by paddling out to merchant riverboats moored beyond town
jurisdiction and a settlement was established five miles upstream on the
"Island of Innocence" with bars, nightclubs and brothels.
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