Hotels in Dearborn, Michigan

A little about Dearborn...

Dearborn is a city of nearly 98,000 people located in the Metro Detroit metropolitan area and Wayne County, and is the tenth largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is the hometown of Henry Ford and the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company, and the site of a University of Michigan campus as well as Henry Ford Community College. Dearborn is the home of Michigan's leading tourist attraction, The Henry Ford, the nation's largest indoor-outdoor American History museum entertainment complex (also known as the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village). Notable buildings in the city skyline include the Hyatt Regency Dearborn located across from Fairlane Town Center mall.

Dearborn's population includes 30,000 Arab-Americans, the second largest, and the densest Arab population of any community outside the Middle East. (New York City has nearly 70,000, out of a total population of over 8 million.) Arabs first settled here to work in the automotive industry. In January 2005, a new Arab American National Museum opened as a result of this large concentrated population. The city is also home to the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in North America and the Dearborn Mosque. Because of the Arab influence in cultural east side of Dearborn, store signs and billboards written in Arabic are common sights.

Dearborn is home to the Ford River Rouge Plant, built by Henry Ford to make Ford Model T components, and later the birthplace (and former production line) of the Ford Mustang. It currently produces Ford F150 trucks. At one time the plant employed 120,000 people and produced finished vehicles from iron ore and sand. Dearborn is also home to Fordson High School, the first million dollar high school within the nation.

Dearborn is among a small number of municipalities that owns property in other cities (Camp Dearborn in Milford, Michigan) and is possibly unique in holding property in another state (the Dearborn Towers apartment complex in Clearwater, Florida). These holdings are considered part of the city of Dearborn, and revenues generated by camp admissions and rent collected are used to bolster the city's budget.