Fordson High School is a secondary school

Secondary school

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 located in Dearborn

Dearborn, Michigan

-Economy:Ford Motor Company has its world headquarters in Dearborn. In addition its Dearborn campus contains many research, testing, finance and some production facilities. Ford Land controls the numerous properties owned by Ford including sales and leasing to unrelated businesses such as the...

, Michigan

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, United States

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. It was completed in 1928 on a 15 acres (60,702.9 m²) parcel of land which was then the village of Fordson, named for Henry Ford

Henry Ford

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 and his son Edsel Ford

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Prior to the opening of the school, students attended the nearby Miller School.
Ground was broken for the original school building in 1926 with representatives from each of the four entering grades participating.