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HIGHLAND PARK, a city of Wayne county, Michigan, adjoining Detroit. The population was in 1920 (27% foreign-born white) and was in 1930 by the Federal census. It is a residential and industrial suburb, with automobile factories employing 43,00o men. Its total factory output in 1925 was valued at $390,249,842; and the assessed valuation of property in 1927 was $207,882,500. In 1900 Highland Park was a village of 427 inhabitants. Between 1900 and 1910 the population was multiplied by nearly 1 o; and between 1910 and 1920 by more than io. The city was incorporated in 1918.