Brownstown Charter Township is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Its population was 33,194 at the 2020 census. Brownstown was established in 1827, a decade prior to Michigan's admission to the Union. Brownstown has three separate but connected segments due to the incorporation of the cities of Flat Rock, Rockwood, and Woodhaven in the early 1960s.
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Woodhaven High School is a public high school in Brownstown Charter Township, Michigan, and located within the Woodhaven-Brownstown School District. The school had an enrollment of 1,205 as of the 2023-2024 school year, and in the 2024-2025 school year, it now serves grades 9–12. Woodhaven's mascot is the Warrior and the school colors are purple and white. Woodhaven High School competes in the Downriver League, an athletic association consisting of Woodhaven and 8 other Downriver area high schools.
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Woodhaven is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States. As of the 2020 census, Woodhaven had a population of 12,941. It is part of a collection of communities known as Downriver.
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The Flat Rock Assembly Plant is a Ford Motor Company automobile assembly plant located at 1 International Drive in Flat Rock, Michigan, within Metro Detroit. The facility covers 2,900,000 square feet of production space and employs approximately 3,510 hourly workers and 140 salaried workers. It currently manufactures the Ford Mustang.
The plant was originally built by Ford as the Michigan Casting Center in 1972, but it closed in 1981. In 1987, Mazda took over the site and established its first U.S. manufacturing facility, Mazda Motor Manufacturing USA . In 1992, Ford purchased a stake in the plant, and it was reorganized as the joint venture AutoAlliance International. Mazda ended production there in 2012, after which the facility returned to full Ford ownership.
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Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 304 was operated by a Vickers Viscount 700 aircraft owned by Trans-Canada Air Lines. On July 9, 1956, the No. 4 propeller of the aircraft tore loose from its engine over Flat Rock, Michigan in the United States, during a flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec; one blade of the propeller sliced through the passenger section of the cabin, killing one passenger and injuring four passengers and one flight attendant. The aircraft diverted to Windsor, Ontario, in Canada, and the pilots carried out an emergency landing. The accident was the first to involve a Vickers Viscount aircraft in scheduled service, and was the first instance of a propeller loss on a turbo-prop aircraft.
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Flat Rock is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States, with a small portion of the city extending into Monroe County. At the 2020 census, the population was 10,541.
