Three communities and an auto tycoon: How Henry Ford created modern day Dearborn

January 24th, 20190 DEARBORN — One day in the summer of 1915, Henry Ford and his top lieutenants gathered at a spot near Miller Road and the Rouge River to survey the flat farmland and talk about the future. Ford, whose huge Highland Park plant was producing his world-changing Model T automobile on a revolutionary assembly line by workers earning the...