Ford River Rouge Complex
1917 - Operational
Overview
Fords colossal vertically integrated complex where lake freighters delivered ore that became steel, glass, tires, and finally cars in one continuous flow. By the 1930s about 100,000 people worked there. Diego Rivera painted it, and today it builds the F-150.
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