My father worked in car factory prior to retiring. Have you or anyone in your family worked in a factory?
None of my family has ever worked in a manufacturing plant. They normally have several buildings, which is dangerous.
The car factory did have several buildings, but thanks to the supervisors and safety team, the factory only had two minor accidents while my dad worked there.
Factories came about with the introduction of machinery during the one and only industrial revolution.
True in order to enter into the world of mass production by making the process more efficient.
workshops".
Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, with some having rail, highway and water loading and unloading facilities. 
Factories may either make discrete products or some type of material continuously produced such as chemicals, pulp and paper, or refined oil products. Factories manufacturing chemicals are often called "plants" and may have most of their equipment – tanks, pressure vessels
the factory consisted of some ten buildings spread over several city blocks at what is now the campus of the Community College of Philadelphia. The firm reached its peak in 1857-58, after which time, the Norris family seems to have lost interest in the business. Manufacturing quality and output fell during the Civil War and the plant closed in 1866, although deliveries continued for a year or two.
The firm's factory complex was located in the area around 17th and Hamilton Streets, on several acres of what had once