Home of the Model T

Home of the Model T is a Michigan historical marker in Highland Park, Wayne County, dedicated 1956.

Wayne County · dedicated 1956 · Woodward Avenue, Highland Park

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Here at his Highland Park Plant, Henry Ford in 1913 began the mass production of automobiles on a moving assembly line. By 1915 Ford built a million Model T’s. In 1925 over nine thousand were assembled in a single day. Mass production soon moved from here to all phases of American industry and set the pattern of abundance for twentieth century living.

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