Ford Motor Company. Plant Engineering Department.
Part of a plan to render the company self-sufficient, Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company purchased over 313,000 acres of timberland and two iron mines in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the early 1920s. In 1954, Ford Motor Company donated the town of Alberta, Michigan and 1700 acres (7 km²) of land to what is now the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University.
From the description of Ford Motor Company Iron Mountain Plant records, 1951. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 758981075
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| creatorOf | Ford Motor Company. Plant Engineering Department. Ford Motor Company Iron Mountain Plant records, 1951. | The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center |
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