Dearborn - Ford River Rouge Complex

The River Rouge Complex is an integrated operations plant encompassing all basic steps in automobile production. The Rouge was the largest single manufacturing complex in the United States, with peak employment of about 120,000 during World War II. The complex included dock facilities, blast furnaces, open-hearth steel mills, foundries, a rolling mill, metal stamping facilities, an engine plant, a glass manufacturing building, a tire plant, and its own power house supplying steam and electricity.