Dearborn Attractions

Adjacent to the Henry Ford Museum, the Automotive Hall of Fame is dedicated to history of the automotive industry. Plaques and memorabilia commemorate the many designers, educators, inventors, journalists, race care drivers and automotive association members. Interactive exhibits, automobiles and authentic artifacts bring history to life!

The Dearborn Historical Museum is housed in two buildings - the original 19th century U.S. Government Arsenal and the Exhibit Annex. Farm equipment, wagons and buggies are on display. Period furnishings are found in the commandant's quarters and the McFadden-Ross House.

The Ford Motor Company began in 1903 and has become the world's biggest producer of trucks and the second biggest producer of cars and trucks combined.

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.

University of Michigan-Dearborn is one of the three campuses of the University of Michigan. Located on 196 acres of the former estate of automotive pioneer, Henry Ford, the campus was established in 1959. One third of the campus, more than 70 acres, is maintained as one of the largest natural areas in metropolitan Detroit.