American society as we know it was born a few feet off Woodward Avenue in Highland Park.

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"The Highland Park plant is where the mainspring of the 20th Century was wound," said Bob Casey, John and Horace Dodge curator of the transportation collection at the Henry Ford museum. Thousands drive past the historic Ford Highland Park Model T Assembly plant every day, unaware of its significance. Now an online contest could make the plant a magnet for visitors to the Detroit area. The Woodward Avenue Action Association has nominated the plant for This Place Matters, a national online competition for a $25,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. You can vote for the Highland Park plant at www.woodwardavenue.org. The sprawling plant on Woodward just north of the Davison freeway put the world on wheels. At its peak, Highland Park built two million Model T's a year.

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