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Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Ford Assembly Plant, 1400 Harbour Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

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Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Ford Assembly Plant, 1400 Harbour Way South, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

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Significance: The Ford Assembly Plant is historically significant because of its association with several individuals and historical developments important to the history of the United States, especially the mobilization of American industry for war production during World War II. The plant was designed to receive unassembled Ford Company parts by ship or railroad and then supply assembled autos to Ford dealers in northern California and Hawaii. During the war, the Richmond Tank Depot, as it was then called, had two basic functions: assembling jeeps and processing combat vehicles for shipment. During the war, the depot employed a relatively large number of women and African Americans. With the war over in 1945, Ford reconverted the Richmond plant to the production of civilian cars and trucks. The plant continued to serve that function within the Ford production system until 1955 when, because of the greatly expanded market for cars in California's post war economy, the company decided to move its Bay Area operation to a larger site in Milpitas. The Ford Motor Company closed the Richmond plant that year.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N975
Survey number: HAER CA-326-H
Building/structure dates: 1931 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1942 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1945 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1955 Subsequent Work

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Ford, Henry
Ford Motor Company
Kahn, Albert
McDonald, A S
Cutting, H C
Parr, Fred
Parr-McCormick Steamship Line
EJ Dodge Company
Bulwinkel, Charles
Filice & Perrelli Canning Company
Filice, Gennaro
Perrelli, John
Clinton Construction Company
Brown, B R
Wiesmyer, Max L
Sorenson, Charles
Mason & Rice
Nettleton, Kahn & Trowbridge
Wilby, Ernest
Kahn, Julius
Trussed Concrete Steel Company
Packard Motor Company
Joy, Henry
Pierce , George N
Abbot, W A
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Kennedy, John F
McNamara, Robert
Thornton, Charles B
Kennedy, Robert
Hitler, Adolf
Tripp, Guy E
Williams, Clarence C
Wesson, Charles M
Campbell, Levin H
Baruch, Bernard
Keller, K T
Fairless, Benjamin F
Brown, Lewis H
Hayes, Thomas J
Glancy, A R
Christmas, John K
Taylor, Brainerd
Johnson, Louis
Austin Motor Car Company
American Austin Car Company
Bantam Car Company
Willys-Overland Incorporated
Continental Motor Company
McFadden, George U
Reed, Dick R
W A Bechtel
Moore Equipment Company
Allison Steel Manufacturing Company
Stewart & Stevenson
K&D Industries
Harris Manufacturing
Vivian, Frank
National Labor Relations Board
United Auto Workers
American Federal of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Wagner, Robert
Slaby, Frank
Gillespie, John
Peters, Rowenah M
O'Connor, Richard, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Quivik, Fredric L, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Lowe, Jet, photographer
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