Belterra sits like a Great Lakes resort, perched above a stretch of sandy beach overlooked by white wooden cottages with green shutters. Wicker chairs rest on verandas, flowers burst from the tidy lawns, and magnificent pines lend aromatic shade. Six decades ago, people here square danced at parties and listened to the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. But Belterra, built to look like the Great Lakes towns loved by auto pioneer Henry Ford, sits smack in the Brazilian Amazon.

Long gone are the outdoor movie screens that, half a century ago, brought scratchy Hollywood ms to workers slashing rubber trees 150 miles south of the equator. Fire hydrants stamped by a Michigan manufacturer still ...

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