Dearborn
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Location in Michigan
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| Foundation : | 1786 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Michigan | ||
| County : | Wayne County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 19 ′ N , 83 ° 13 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
92,382 (status: 2006) 4,403,437 (status: 2009) |
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| Population density : | 1,464.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 63.3 km 2 (approx. 24 mi 2 ) of which 63.1 km 2 (approx. 24 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 180 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 48120-48128 | ||
| Area code : | +1 313 | ||
| FIPS : | 26-21000 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0624432 | ||
| Website : | www.cityofdearborn.org | ||
| Mayor : | John B. O'Reilly, Jr. | ||
Dearborn is a city in Wayne County , Michigan, with a population of 97,775. It is located in the northern United States near the Great Lakes immediately southwest of Detroit . The Dearborn area was first settled by Europeans in 1786. Dearborn village was established in 1836, named after Henry Dearborn , Secretary of War under President Thomas Jefferson .
description
The city is the hometown of Henry Ford and the seat of the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company . The development and shaping of the city is largely due to Ford.
Dearborn is home to the second largest of the three campuses of the University of Michigan and the Henry Ford Community College. Dearborn has the second largest Arab community in the United States (New York City has nearly 70,000) with over 29,000 Arab-Americans (41.7% of the city's total population according to the 2010 census). Arabs first settled here to work in the automotive industry. In January 2005, a new Arab-American National Museum opened as a result of the large proportion of the population. Right-wing populist journalist Debbie Schlüssel disparages Dearborn because of the high proportion of Americans of Arab origin .
Dearborn is home to the Ford Rouge plant , built by Henry Ford to the components for the Ford Model T to produce. At peak times, the plant employed 100,000 people and produced complete vehicles. In the 1990s a new production hall was built, in which the Ford F-150 is manufactured today.
Henry Ford's local newspaper, The Dearborn Independent , became internationally known , which printed an anti-Semitic series of articles that he later published as the book The International Jew and caused worldwide sensation and outrage (German Der Internationale Jude , published in Germany by Theodor Fritsch in Leipzig ).
history
The city was founded as a settlement in 1893 and received city status in 1927. Later they merged with the nearby Fordson in order not to be incorporated by Detroit. Orville L. Hubbard was mayor of the city from 1942 to 1978. He was one of Dearborn's most influential figures and a fanatical supporter of racial segregation. He prevented the influx of black people using legal and illegal methods.
geography
The city has an area of 63.3 km². 63.1 km² of this is land, 0.2 km² is water. The Rouge River flows through the city. The watercourse was artificially influenced on the initiative of Ford and water is fed through a weir to operate an electricity power station. Three of the four arms of the river (Middle, Lower and Rouge Rivers) converge in Dearborn. Dearborn is connected to Detroit via Michigan Avenue ( US Highway 12 and Interstate 94 ). Michigan State Route 153 (Ford Road) also runs through Dearborn in a west-east direction . On the western edge, US Highway 24 runs north to south through the city, running parallel to it through the central portion of Michigan State Route 39 , which ends in the south at Allen Park on Interstate 94.
Museums
The Greenfield Village in Dearborn is an open-air museum that was created on the initiative of Henry Ford. Buildings steeped in history were rebuilt here in their original form. B. the Wright brothers' bicycle workshop and Thomas Alva Edison's laboratories .
The Henry Ford Museum is a great place to see cars, planes, and trains. The bus in which Rosa Parks refused to offer a white passenger her seat is also on display. You can also tour the Ford Rouge factory and watch how cars are made in one of America's most modern assembly lines.
sons and daughters of the town
- Vesta M. Roy (1925–2002), politician
- John Kornblum (* 1943), diplomat and investment banker
- Dave Florek (born 1953), actor
- Hans G. Klemm (* 1958), diplomat
- Jon-Erik Kellso (* 1964), jazz trumpeter and cornet player
- Frankie Andreu (* 1966), racing cyclist
- Chris Tamer (* 1970), ice hockey player and coach
- Brian Rafalski (born 1973), ice hockey player
- David Burtka (born 1975), actor
- Jessica Smith (* 1983), short tracker and inline speed skater
- Rima Fakih (* 1985), Miss USA 2010
- John Vigilante (1985-2018), ice hockey player
- Britta Büthe , (* 1988), German beach volleyball player.
- Lawrence Warbasse (* 1990), racing cyclist
- Andrew Bazzi (born 1997), singer-songwriter
Trivia
In a song by Rodriguez , a musician from neighboring Detroit , the line "met a girl from Dearborn" occurs. After the film Searching for Sugar Man , which won an Oscar for a documentary and other awards in 2012 , this place name was an essential part of the success in the search for Rodriguez, whose two records were successfully sold in South Africa and a few other countries in the 1970s . Little was known about his life and which (following the film) did not appear successfully until 1998 in South Africa.
Web links
- The Henry Ford (Museum)
- History never dies. Park name forced neighbors, American Indians back to 1812 , in: Chicago Journal, August 5, 2009 - on the battle of Dearborn on August 15, 1812