Under a new shiny grocery store in St. Paul, Minnesota, there are 150,000 tons of crushed concrete holding up the ground upon which you stand. This concrete can be seen as a former Ford factory. Prior to that, it constructed the Model T, and before that, it was simply a bluff on the riverbank with a Mississippi view. It's now under row houses, a Lunds & Byerlys, and a group of renters who may be oblivious to the fact that they are walking on the bones of American manufacturing.
The plant that built America's road trip, then quietly closed
