These links to information about the early Michigan automobile industry and Michigan roads provide further resources for your study. We hope you find them useful and informative. We check them periodically, but we cannot be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that site's webmaster.

Early Automobile History

• General Motors Automobile History
• License Plates by the Year
• The Life of Henry Ford (Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village)
• A Michigan Auto Tour
• Rearview Mirror articles from The Detroit News
• The auto industry's family trees
• Henry Leland, forgotten giant of the auto industry
• How the bicycle put Detroit on wheels
• Once teeming with auto plants, Detroit now home to only a few nameplates
• Transportation History. See these links: Automobile History Reading List; Carriage Drawings; Early Cars: Fact Sheet for Children (Smithsonian Institution)
• West of Laramie: A Brief History of the Automobile Industry by Richard a Wright (an online book published by the Communications Department of Wayne State University)

Early Automobile Manufacturing Architecture and Art

• Albert Kahn (University of Michigan architecture)
• Albert Kahn, the architect of the auto industrialists (The Detroit News Rearview Mirror)
• The Factory Architecture of Albert Kahn (Architecture Week)
• Ford River Rouge Complex, National Historic Landmark in Michigan
• Highland Park Ford Plant, National Historic Landmark in Michigan
• The Rouge plant-the art of industry (The Detroit News Rearview Mirror)

Michigan's Roads and Bridges

• Michigan Department of Transportation
  • Mackinac Bridge
  • Michigan's Historic Bridges
  • Michigan's Memorial Highways
• Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning

More early auto history-related links in theKids' Stuff section of the Michigan Historical Museum's web site

Updated 06/06/2007

Michigan Historical Center, Department of History, Arts and Libraries
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