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Welcome to MotorCities National Heritage Area (MotorCities), where you can Experience Everything Automotive! We invite you to join us as we take a drive down memory lane, gaze into the future and share with you an amazing automotive journey.

Pull out a calendar, road map and pen, and let the fun begin! We invite you to browse the many wonderful automotive museums, homes and gardens, tours and sporting events located in MotorCities and plot your path through the heart of the American automotive industry. If you need help, we're ready to jump in! Whether your visit lasts a few hours or a few days, you are guaranteed an exciting variety of places to see and things to do.

With over 100 sites and experiences waiting to be explored, go ahead and choose your category of interest - and get ready to Experience Everything Automotive!

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Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:27

Great Migrations: Coming to Work in Pontiac

In the early 20th Century due to the explosive growth of the automobile industry, and workers were desperately needed in Pontiac. More and more southerners…
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An exodus of people left southern America for the north in the early 20th Century, attracted by the expolsive growth in the automobile industry. Pontiac…
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Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:53

Make Way for the "Chief of the Sixes"

In January 1926, Oakland Motors revealed its new Pontiac model, named for the city in which it was born and for the dynamic Native American…
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Thursday, 30 April 2020 14:01

Oakland Motor Car Company

In 1907 Edward Murphy's Pontiac Buggy Company was an established carriage company in Pontiac when Murphy founded the Oakland Motor Car Company to build motor…
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Thursday, 30 April 2020 14:08

Automobile Financing

Before there was loan money, car dealers couldn't afford inventories of more than a few vehicles and many people couldn't afford to buy cars at…
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Thursday, 30 April 2020 14:15

The Courage of Rosa Parks

In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man. Ms. Parks…
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Thursday, 30 April 2020 14:21

Pontiac Motor Company

The Pontiac line confronted an uncertian future with new ideas. Pontiac invested heavily in engineering and auto racing in the 1950s, while in the 1960s…
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Thursday, 30 April 2020 14:27

Validation Testing

Rigorous testing and refinement of design, engineering and build processes are needed before going to full production since difficulty in making changes multiplies as mass…
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Thursday, 30 April 2020 14:40

The Pontiac Buggy Company

Edward M. Murphy founded the Pontiac Buggy Company at the age of twenty-eight as the carriage industry was spreading throughout the city. Within ten years…
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The City of Pontiac answered the call when our country went to war, joining America's other automobile manufacturing centers in switching production to military hardware…
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