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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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The Roots of Industry - Fort Street and the Fisher Brothers

The Roots of Industry - Fort Street and the Fisher Brothers

When the Fisher brothers were young lads they moved to Fort Street from Ohio in 1904 to live with their Uncle Albert. The borthers ended…

The Schaeffer Building

The Schaeffer Building

The intersection of Michigan Ave and Schaefer Road was once known for being an important rest stop for those who were on the road from…

The Sears Building and Pontiac Retail

The Sears Building and Pontiac Retail

Downtown stores once prospered with a dynamic auto industry encircling the city, but over time the growing use of automobiles made it easier to shop…

The Test Track at the Proving Grounds

The Test Track at the Proving Grounds

This high speed test track was a 2 1/2 mile oval that had 31-degree banked curves which allowed for car to gain speed easily. In…

The Train Station and the Grand River Bridge

The Train Station and the Grand River Bridge

This station allowed local farmers and merchants to quickly transport their goods in large volumes between Detroit and Lansing. Before the railway, people had to…

The Urgent Need for Autoworker Housing

The Urgent Need for Autoworker Housing

Housing was in short supply and threatened the growth of the industry, so to attract and retain labor, General Motors built dormitories and bunkhouses near…

The Vincent Family

The Vincent Family

The Proving Grounds was home to the superintendent Charles H. Vincent and his family from 1928 to 1942. Charlie and his wife Lucille raised three…

The Viper Assembly Plant

The Viper Assembly Plant

At the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant there are three words on the front door - Detroit, Handcrafted, Horsepower. The plant was originally built in 1966…

The Wills Sainte Claire Automobile Museum

The Wills Sainte Claire Automobile Museum

The Wills Sainte Claire Automobile Museum preserves the history of the Willls Sainte Claire Automobile and its founder, C. Harold Wills. The facility features six…

Tiger Stadium

Tiger Stadium

For the Corktown neighborhood, baseball was a blessing that brought millions of people to the streets. As the playing field became a baseball stadium, the…

Tracks Over Tracks on the Detroit United Railway

Tracks Over Tracks on the Detroit United Railway

As electric trolleys and automobiles appeared around the turn of the 20th century the landscape of rural West Bloomfield was being transformed. Several people wer…

Tractor Tests and Training at Deer Lake Hills Farm

Tractor Tests and Training at Deer Lake Hills Farm

Over 500 acres of land at the far end of Deer Lake were once owned by Ford Motor Company. Deer Lake Hills Farm opened in…

Trains Off Line: The Challenge of Railroad Safety

Trains Off Line: The Challenge of Railroad Safety

Train wrecks were a constant worry in Hamburg Township, though they were not common. Accidents jolted communites around the world as trains became common in…

Travel Through Time: Grand River Ave.

Travel Through Time: Grand River Ave.

This road was once called the Grand River Trail that Native Americans followed across Michigan long before European settlement. In the 1850s the trail became…

Tribute to the Vehicle City - Bringing Back The Arches

Tribute to the Vehicle City - Bringing Back The Arches

On November 29, 2003 hundreds of citizens watched the lighting of the new Vehicle City arches along Saginaw Street. The arches are replicas of those…

You may not be able to meet Marion and James Turner, but you can feel their smile and maybe catch their pioneering spirit!...

Turner-Dodge House & Heritage Center

Come experience how early settlers like John and Marion Turner lived and the role they played in bringing railroads and early plank roads to Lansing.…

U.S. Custom House

U.S. Custom House

With the Canada Southern Railway travelling between Canada and the U.S., officials needed to inspect goods on the trains, and this building housed their operations.

Local UAW 600 Unionizes Ford Motor Company

UAW Local 600

Conditions were ripe for the rise of unionism in the Depression-ravaged 1930s. Ford Motor Company was the last of the "Big Three" to unionize. The…

Unions in Pontiac and in American Life

Unions in Pontiac and in American Life

The world changed in the 20th Century when workers unionized to improve their working conditions, protect their families, and grow the American middle class. Americans…

Unisys (Burroughs) Corporation

Unisys (Burroughs) Corporation

The former Burroughs Corporation founded in St. Louis in 1886, which is now Unisys, was known for inventing the first practical adding machine. After patenting…

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