Please note that Greenfield Village will close at 3 p.m. on Friday, June 19, but have extended hours until 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 20 for Motor Muster.

Please note that Greenfield Village will close at 3 p.m. on Friday, June 19, but have extended hours until 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 20 for Motor Muster.

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Lesson 3 of "You Can Be an Innovator... Like Henry Ford"
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Aerial View of Ford Rouge Plant Complex, 1948

Ford Motor Company built the Rouge Plant with the ability to create automobiles from raw materials. In this photograph, the boat docks and huge coal, iron ore and limestone bins are visible. In 1948, about 850,000 tons of ore and 2,500,000 tons of coal arrived by boat and filled these bins to be used towards building Ford cars.
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