[1][2][3][4][5] Alberta is the site of the Ford Center, managed by the Michigan Technological University College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.

The original village of Alberta consisted of twelve houses, two schools, and a steam-driven mill built to the most modern standards of the day.

The mill was a two-story white clapboard wood-frame structure and still stands, now housing a portion of the Alberta Village Museum.

This was a small capacity even by 1936 standards, with Ford's other three mills in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan producing twenty to twenty-five times as much.

[11][6] Ford had closed the operations in the community around the year 1943, and the community gradually began to diminish, although it was not until the year of 1954 that the sawmill ceased its operations, and the Ford Motor Company officially donated the town of Alberta, Michigan, and the 1,700 acres (690 ha) of land around it to what is now the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University.