1927, Dearborn, Michigan: Highland Park Plant becomes the backdrop for a pivotal moment in the Ford dynasty. As Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, commemorate the 15-millionth Model T, but an ...

Henry Ford was a pioneer in the automobile industry. At 40 years old, he launched the Ford Motor Co., which would become one of the biggest automobile companies in the world. Ford Motor Co. opened its ...

It has much of the original furniture on loan from the Henry Ford Museum. Mahogany Row also has an office of Edsel Ford, Henry Ford's son.

Edsel Ford and associates raised capital with which to merge four suburban banks (Highland Park State Bank, Peoples Wayne County Bank, Guardian Bank of Dearborn, Dearborn State Bank).

Henry Ford is born on a farm to William and Mary Ford in Springwells Township, Michigan in 1863. Explore a timeline of his life.

The Highland Park story is a riveting tale of two very different cities: one filled with prosperity, the other with blight and urban decline.

By 1900, the population of Highland Park hovered around 450 but significantly increased in 1910 when Henry Ford opened his massive Ford Highland Park Assembly Plant on Woodward Avenue and Manchester ...

(The Piquette building was sold to Studebaker in 1911.) Ford eventually built 15,000,000 Model Ts. “Henry Ford wanted to make the Model T forever,” Shotwell says.

1914: The moving assembly line at Highland Park produces 34,858 Model Ts — an 82% increase from Piquette’s output. 1917: Ford introduces a truck, the Model TT, based on the Model T.

When the Model T sprang from a 'hive's mind,' it was the fulfillment of Henry Ford’s quest to produce affordable, reliable vehicles.