Henry Ford built a lot more than cars, as the town of Alberta attests to. He actually was instrumental in developing a few U.P. towns through logging and mining, like Gwinn and Alberta.
Excerpt: Henry Ford put Alberta, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the map.
To thank him, the community and the university that now owns it, are coming together to host a 150th birthday party for their founding father, who built a saw mill and the village of Alberta as part of Ford's little-known lumber empire in the western Upper Peninsula.
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Source: Edmunds.com
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