Dearborn, MI news and local guide

Dearborn Township was formed in 1833 and the village of Dearbornville in 1836, both named for Henry Dearborn, a Revolutionary War general who became Secretary of War under Thomas Jefferson. The Town of Dearborn was incorporated in 1893, and through most of the 19th century the area stayed rural and agricultural. Spurred by industry in Detroit and within its own limits, Dearborn became a city in 1927, and its present borders date from a 1928 vote that merged it with neighboring Fordson, formerly Springwells, which feared being absorbed by Detroit. Much of the farmland between the two was bought by Henry Ford for his estate, Fair Lane, and for the Ford Motor Company's world headquarters, and Ford later built an airport there that became the Dearborn Proving Grounds. The Henry Ford museum and historic village also stands in this corridor. The historian James W. Loewen describes Dearborn as a sundown town that kept out Black residents for much of the 20th century, a policy openly defended by Orville Hubbard, the city's mayor from 1942 to 1978. Sources Wikipedia: Dearborn, Michigan