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How was Disneylandâs Main Street, U.S.A., connected to Marceline, Missouri?
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Main Street, U.S.A., at Disneyland was designed to evoke the atmosphere of a typical small Midwestern American town at the turn of the 20th century. This themed area was directly inspired by and modeled after Marceline, Missouri, the town where Walt Disney lived as a young child and began his schooling.12