Editing Dearborn, Michigan (section)

==History==
Before European encounter, the area had been inhabited for thousands of years by successive [[Indigenous peoples|First Nations peoples]]. Historical tribes belonged mostly to the [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]]-language family, especially the [[Council of Three Fires]], the [[Potawatomi]] and related peoples. In contrast, the [[Wyandot people|Huron]] (Wyandot) were [[Iroquoian]] speaking. French colonists had a trading post at Fort Detroit and a settlement developed there in the colonial period. Another developed on the south side of the Detroit River in what is now southwestern Ontario, near a Huron mission village. French and French-Canadian colonists also established farms at Dearborn in this period. France ceded all of its territory east of the Mississippi River in North America to Great Britain in 1763 after losing to Britain in the [[Seven Years' War]].

Beginning in 1786, after the United States gained independence in the [[American Revolutionary War]], more European Americans entered this region, settling in Detroit and the Dearborn area.<ref>[http://www.dearbornarealiving.com/history.shtml "History"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070721023200/http://www.dearbornarealiving.com/history.shtml |date=July 21, 2007 }}, Dearborn Area Living, accessed May 15, 2010</ref> With population growth, Dearborn Township was formed in 1833 and the village of Dearbornville in 1836, each named after [[Henry Dearborn]], a general in the American Revolution who became [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] under President [[Thomas Jefferson]]. The Town of Dearborn was incorporated in 1893. Through much of the 19th century, the area was largely rural and dependent on agriculture.

Stimulated by industrial development in Detroit and within its own limits, in 1927 Dearborn was established as a city. Its current borders result from a 1928 consolidation vote that merged Dearborn and neighboring Fordson (previously known as [[Springwells Township, Michigan|Springwells]]), which feared being absorbed into expanding Detroit.

According to historian James W. Loewen, in his book ''[[Sundown Towns]]'' (2005), Dearborn discouraged African Americans from settling in the city. In the early 20th century, both white and black people migrated to Detroit for industrial jobs. Over time, some city residents moved to the suburbs. Many of Dearborn's residents "took pride in the saying, 'The sun never set on a Negro in Dearborn{{'"}}. According to [[Orville Hubbard]], the segregationist mayor of Dearborn from 1942 to 1978, "as far as he was concerned, it was against the law for a Negro to live in his suburb."<ref>{{cite book
|first=James W.
|last=Loewen
|author-link=James W. Loewen
|pages=110–112
|year=2005
|title=Sundown Towns
|publisher=[[The New Press]]
|isbn=156584887X}}</ref> Hubbard told the ''Montgomery Advertiser'' in the mid-1950s, "Negroes can't get in here. Every time we hear of a Negro moving in, we respond quicker than you do to a fire."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilkerson|first=Isabel|title=The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration|publisher=Vintage Books|year=2011|isbn=978-0-679-76388-8|location=New York|pages=378}}</ref>

The area between Dearborn and Fordson was undeveloped, and remains so in part. Once farm land, much of this property was bought by Henry Ford for his estate, [[Fair Lane]], and for the [[Ford Motor Company]] World Headquarters. Later developments in this corridor were the [[Ford Airport (Dearborn)|Ford airport]] (later converted to the [[Ford Proving Grounds|Dearborn Proving Grounds]]), and other Ford administrative and development facilities.

More recent additions are [[The Henry Ford]] (a reconstructed historic village and museum), the [[Henry Ford Centennial Library]], the super-regional shopping mall [[Fairlane Town Center]], and the Ford Performing Arts Center. The open land is planted with [[sunflower]]s and often with Ford's favorite crop of [[soybean]]s. The crops are never harvested.

The [[Arab American National Museum]] (AANM) opened in 2005, the first museum in the world devoted to Arab American history and culture. Arab Americans in Dearborn include descendants of [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] Christians who immigrated in the early twentieth century to work in the auto industry, and more recent Arab immigrants and their descendants from other, primarily Muslim nations.<ref name="arabamericanmuseum1">{{cite web |url=http://www.arabamericanmuseum.org/About-the-Museum.id.3.htm |title=Arab American National Museum of Arab American History, Culture & Art |publisher=Arabamericanmuseum.org |access-date=April 9, 2009 |archive-date=February 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221125159/http://arabamericanmuseum.org/About-the-Museum.id.3.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On February 2, 2024, the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' published an opinion piece titled "Welcome to Dearborn, America's Jihad Capital", claiming that there were a large number of supporters of Islamic extremism in the area. Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said the article was inflammatory and was responsible for increased online hate speech against the city's citizens, so he increased police patrols.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-02-03 |title=Dearborn mayor calls for increased police in response to Wall Street Journal opinion piece |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2024/02/03/dearborn-mayor-increased-police-wall-street-journal-opinion/72465140007/ |work=Detroit Free Press |access-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-date=October 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009043345/https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2024/02/03/dearborn-mayor-increased-police-wall-street-journal-opinion/72465140007/ |url-status=live }}</ref>