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Dearborn

City in Wayne County, southeast Michigan, on the Rouge River, 16 km/10 mi southwest of Detroit; population (2000 est) 87,800. It was the birthplace and home of Henry Ford, who built his first car factory here in 1917; motor-vehicle manufacturing is still its main industry. Dearborn also makes aircraft parts, steel, and bricks.

First settled in 1795, Dearborn was incorporated in 1929. It had several names before attaining its present one in honour of Revolutionary general Henry Dearborn.

The city is the home of the University of Michigan, Dearborn (1959) and the Henry Ford Community College (1938). Ford's Greenfield Village features more than 80 American buildings, including Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House (1948); it was re-opened in 2003 after an extensive restoration programme. The Henry Ford Museum, which spotlights US social history and technology, is one of six entries on the national register of historic places. In 2003 the centenary of the Ford Motor Company was celebrated in Dearborn.



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