The Ford Plant Comes to St. Paul
On May 4th, 1925, the first Model T rolled off the assembly line at Ford's new Twin Cities plant on the bluffs above the Mississippi River in St. Paul. What followed was eighty-six years of automobiles, union wages, wartime production, and four generations of St. Paul families who built their lives inside those walls. But the story of how the plant got there — and what it left behind — is one most Minnesotans have never fully heard. Today we tell it. From Ford's Minneapolis origins, to the river that powered everything, to the generators still turning after a hundred years, to the…
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