The Martha-Mary Chapel

Henry Ford restored the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. He then bought the little red school house that inspired "Mary had a little lamb", and had it moved here. The traffic on Rt 20 was beginning to cause structural damage to the inn. So he paid $288,000 to have a bypass road built and when it was done he sold it to the state for $1. In 1938, a hurricane knocked over some trees behind the Mary had a little lamb school house. He then ordered that the trees be cleared and a non-denominational church be built. The Martha-Mary Chapel was named for Henry Ford's mother, Martha Ford, and mother-in-law Mary Bryant. The chapel was recently used in the movie Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.