Site of Willow Run, the WWII plant that built a B-24 bomber roughly every hour and gave America Rosie the Riveter source
Community character
Washtenaw County's second-largest community, spread along Ford Lake south of Ypsilanti, forever tied to Willow Run's wartime 'Arsenal of Democracy' story source
Willow Run bomber plant site
Albert Kahn-designed Ford plant built in 1941 that produced a B-24 Liberator roughly every hour at its April 1944 peak — 453 planes in 468 hours source
Rosie the Riveter heritage
Willow Run employed Rose Will Monroe, the riveter most identified with the wartime Rosie character source
Ford Lake
Huron River impoundment forming the township's southern waterfront source
Ford Lake parks
Township waterfront parks along the Huron River impoundment source
Willow Run heritage sites
Preserved bomber-plant section saved in 2014 for the aviation museum source
Willow Run
Community that grew around the wartime plant and airport source
