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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ULF_fords-fairways-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
It was a gift for his hometown. Henry Ford developed an 18-hole golf course at Outer Drive and Military Street that opened in 1925. With the course designed by Donald Ross and the clubhouse designed by architect Albert Kahn, Ford wanted to put De…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U8Y_u-s-arsenal-sutlers-shop-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Built originally as the Sutler's Shop where soldiers might purchase tobacco and needed supplies, this 36' x 25' brick building with its slate roof was but one of the eleven buildings which comprised the arsenal. Enclosed by a 12' high brick wal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U6L_u-s-arsenal-officers-surgeons-quarters-and-barracks-1833-1875-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Two of the eleven brick buildings that comprised the arsenal stood in an east-west line with this marker. The Officers' Quarters, similar but smaller than the still-standing Commandant's Quarters, and the Barracks, second largest of the arsenal st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U6I_michigan-soldiers-trained-at-u-s-arsenal-during-civil-war-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
During the period of the American Civil War the U.S. Arsenal in Dearborn (then Dearbornville) served as training facilities for Michigan soldiers. This marker is a testimony and a memorial to those men and their units who gave a measure of their d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U5S_u-s-arsenal-1839-1875-powder-magazine-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
The powder magazine, 23' by 67', originally built in 1839 as part of the 1833 - 1875 Detroit Arsenal in Dearbornville, was located about 930 feet east of the eleven buildings shown on the edges of this marker. It was made of local brick, featured …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U5R_u-s-arsenal-1833-1875-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Four of the eleven buildings that comprised the arsenal stood directly in a north-south line with this marker. Facing Michigan Avenue was the saddlers shop, while in this area were the smiths and carpenters shops, all three were one story brick b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TUD_dearborn-city-hall-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
East Downtown Dearborn is "the neighborhood the Rouge Plant built," and its fortunes have been tied to Ford Motor Company. Ford taxes generated much of the income used to build the impressive Georgian Revival-style building, which opened on June …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TU2_nankin-mills-historical_Westland-MI.html
Henry Ford wasn't the first to come here Early Native Americans gathered along the Rouge River for hunting and fishing. European settlers valued Rouge River waterpower, and the building you see here today was built as a gristmill in the mid-1800s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TU1_ford-and-dearborn-historical_Dearborn-MI.html
Henry Ford built the City of Dearborn His business interests drove the consolidation of the City of Fordson and the City of Dearborn in 1929. To the east were the Ford Rouge Plant and the Ford Administration Building. To the west were Ford's airp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TU0_learning-by-doing-historical_Westland-MI.html
Henry Ford established this one-room schoolhouse for children of workers at his nearby Nankin Mill village industry plant producing automotive parts. The rural school operated from 1937 to 1946 as part of Ford's Edison Institute School System, en…
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