Tag: Industry

  • Ford’s Village Industries

    NORTHVILLIANS, Last week, we touched on activities around our Bennett Arboretum (oldest in Michigan) and mentioned we would talk more about Henry Ford’s Hydro-electric plants on this waterway, which he called “Village Industry Plants”. Most of these started as gristmills in the late1800’s and were purchased by Ford in the 1920’s. Northville’s Valve Plant was…