Quote Originally Posted by reddog289 View Post
I am probably wrong but what about the soybean fields where the Wal Mart, Borders, Home Depot and others are located at Ford and the Southfield Freeway. Is that Dearborn or Detroit?
Soybean and corn fields, located in Dearborn, from the Detroit border at Tireman to Ford Rd.
Perhaps Henry Ford II had a sentimental attachment to the farm heritage?
Not long after he passed, the land was developed. The corn maze there was fun about this time of the year.
Obviously that farm land was more viable for office and retail.
It was strange that with all that open land by Ford HQ, Ford leased space at Ren Cen .
The farmer was from Flat Rock area, it was interesting whenever they transported the tractors, etc up Telegraph heading to Dearborn.
Ford probably actually paid the farmer to plant and harvest crops there, it could not have been profitable to move equipment and the harvest from there to 'market'[[grain elevators, etc)