Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail - Ford Motor Company - Highland Park Plant
N 42° 24.615 W 083° 05.992
17T E 327211 N 4697463
The Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant is significant for being, among other things, where Henry Ford first began the mass production of automobiles.
Waymark Code: WM81D5
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/09/2010
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?The plant was also the site where Ford instituted the "five dollar day," a generous wage for the time.
Detroit architect Albert Kahn designed the complex, which included offices, factories, a power plant and a foundry. In 1927, Ford shifted auto production to the River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, limiting Highland Park to truck and tractor manufacturing. The Highland Park Plant is a National Historic Landmark.
The Highland Park Plant was built between 1909 and 1920 on the lot bounded by Woodward, Manchester and Oakland Avenues, and three railroad tracks. An office building, a garage and several machine shops once stood on this portion of the site.
(taken from www.byways.org)
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Official Name: Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail
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