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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29KS_the-ford-rotunda_Dearborn-MI.html
The Ford Rotunda is a lost landmark
that is still remembered fondly. Architect Albert Kahn — who designed many Ford factories and buildings — designed the building for Ford's exhibit at the 1933-34 "Century of Progress" World's Fair i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29JZ_uaw-local-600_Dearborn-MI.html
Conditions were ripe for the rise of unionism
in the Depression-ravaged 1930s. Ford Motor Company was the last of the "Big Three" to unionize. The turning point came on May 26, 1937, when Ford security men brutally beat UAW organizers at the "Bat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29JO_wyoming-avenue_Dearborn-MI.html
Wyoming Avenue has a vivid industrial history.
Brick-making flourished in the 1800s as companies like Clippert, Haggerty and Mercier took advantage of the area's rich clay deposits. Automakers competing with Ford later came to this east side of D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29ID_planning-for-people_Dearborn-MI.html
This distinctive neighborhood was born in 1919 and 1920.
In those years, Henry Ford built 156 homes for sale to his Dearborn Fordson Tractor Plant employees. The two-story, three- and four-bedroom homes were built with the most current materials …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29H5_the-carver-lab_Dearborn-MI.html
One of history's great scientists worked here.
Renowned scientist George Washington Carver and Henry Ford became friends in 1936. Both were interested in developing synthetic rubber and plastics from soybeans, peanuts and cotton. Ford built Carve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V6G_nature-vs-nurture-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
In 1926, a 2.5-acre rose garden was designed for this meadow, with the help of landscape architect Herbert Kellaway and rosarian Harriet Foote. Once completed, the garden contained approximately 10,000 rose plants of 400 varieties and cost more th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UZ5_business-pioneers-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
This Morley Avenue neighborhood has a special history.
In the early 1800s, the U.S. government purchased this land near the Rouge River for a frontier military reserve and arsenal. When the arsenal closed in 1875, the land was sold and subdivided…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UYG_piccard-stratosphere-flight-william-b-stout-school-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Piccard Stratosphere Flight
Near this location and not far from the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village was located the Ford Airport. Here aviation history was made on October 23, 1934, when Dr. Jeannette Piccard made an ascent in a hydrogen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UXM_the-richard-gardner-house-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
It was built five years before Michigan became a state, (1837).
Dearbornville, Michigan Territory, in the Old Northwest Territory.
This house is a perfect example of pioneer construction. It was located in the Scottish settlement in Dearborn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UXI_rouge-river-water-quality-improvements-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Why was the Retention Structure built?
Dearborn has a combined sewer system which collects both storm water and sanitary wastewater in the same pipe. During heavy rains and large snow melts, combined sewers can exceed capacity and overflow untrea…