<strong>Henry Ford</strong> grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn Michigan. He was acurious child with an aptitude for mechanics. At the age of sixteen Ford... » 

Henry Ford grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn Michigan. He was acurious child with an aptitude for mechanics. At the age of sixteen Ford movedto Detroit to serve as an apprentice machinist. In 1903 he founded the FordMotor Company where he began manufacturing the popular Model T automobile. Tofulfill the publics demand for this car Ford opened a factory in HighlandPark Michigan. There he introduced the moving assembly linea brandnew wayto manufacture automobiles. In the late 1910s and early 1920s Ford beganconstruction of an even larger factory along the Rouge River in Dearborn. Theplant embodied Fords dream of producing affordable automobiles of exceptionalquality. «