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Current Projects
The Center for the Study of Automotive Heritage is currently conducting oral history interviews in a joint project with The Automobile National Heritage Area (ANHA), called Motorcities Memories. Ford Village Industry Oral History InterviewsThe name Henry Ford is not usually associated with a vision of community-centered, small-scale industrialization. Yet, Ford's Village Industry plants, run largely by hydroelectric power, represented a unique experiment to bring industrial production into the rural and suburban countryside surrounding Detroit. The first plant opened in 1920 yet many remained in production throughout the 1940's and beyond. Our
project involves videotaping interviews with workers from the Ford Village
Industry Mills. We have currently collected interviews from 4 mills.
Updated February 17, 2004
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