Lassen's resort enterprise begins with steam. In 1896, Christian Lassen began his boating service with a single steamboat taking tourists on trips around the lake. By 1904, the boating operation had grown to a fleet with six more boats and brother, . . . — — Map (db m305424) HM
As James Hervey Ball explained in 1884, the native peoples "could not well have declined the inducement to have resorted here for council, pleasure, rest and food."
The French recorded the earliest historic groups in the area surrounding Cedar . . . — — Map (db m305417) HM
The Crown Point Public Library opened in February, 1908 at this location. Andrew Carnegie donated $12,000 for construction of the community would commit to contributing annually to library maintenance. The Carnegie Building was adjoined by the new . . . — — Map (db m241002) HM
The Old Sheriff's House and Jail was built in 1882. The home is a Second Empire-style house with a Mansard roof, the only such style in Crown Point.
The jail was expanded twice. The renovations were completed in 1910 and 1928, extending the . . . — — Map (db m288916) HM
This Neoclassical-style building at 138 S. Main St. was constructed with Southern Indiana Limestone in 1922. People's State Bank operated at this location from 1922 until several years into the Great Depression, closing in 1937.
Although the . . . — — Map (db m288662) HM
The Old Courthouse has been, since its erection in 1878, a landmark in Lake County, Indiana. Construction of the central portion, including the clock tower, began with 500,000 hand-kilned bricks from the Henry Wise Brickyard in Crown Point, . . . — — Map (db m27806) HM
Dedicated by the citizens of Crown Point in memory of all who served their Country that Freedom shall not perish from this Earth — — Map (db m43408) HM
This Italianate-style building was built by William W. Cheshire in 1873. Originally, there were storefronts on the street level with an all-purpose room on the second floor. The Masonic Lodge had a meeting room, as did the Odd Fellows. It was used . . . — — Map (db m287798) HM
The Crown Theatre at 19 N. Court St. started as an independent movie house known as The Palace Theater in 1926. The theater was later renamed to Crown Theatre. The Crown Theatre closed in 2012. Prior to its movie house days, the building was a . . . — — Map (db m287732) HM
The Lake County Courthouse, affectionately known as "The Grand Old Lady," is in the design tradition of Romanesque and Georgian styles. The original structure was built in 1878.
There were two additions to the original building: two-and-a-half . . . — — Map (db m287616) HM
The Lake County Sheriff's house and jail were built in the Second Empire style. The house was a residence for the Lake County Sheriff. The jail was 50x120 feet with six cells. The building was enlarged in 1926, and the residence was converted to . . . — — Map (db m241003) HM
Site of the home of
Solon Robinson
Founder of
Crown Point
First center of religious,
educational, social and
civic activities of
Lake County
1834 — — Map (db m287321) HM
Austin F. Bement poses with his Packard, parked alongside of the "Ideal Section" in Dyer, Indiana, which runs from approximately Calumet Avenue in Dyer to Janice Drive in Schererville. Mr. Bement was Secretary of the Lincoln Highway Association. . . . — — Map (db m254706) HM
Pioneer Indian trail originally connecting Rock Island and Detroit. Indians and early settlers traversed this route including Black Hawk (1767-1838), Chief of the Sauk Indians. Trail now alternates between US 30 and 330 across Lake County. — — Map (db m204911) HM
A model stretch of object-lesson road built by the Lincoln Highway Association with the co-operation and financial aid of the federal government, the State of Indiana, and Lake County, Indiana, with funds contributed by the United States . . . — — Map (db m256673) HM
Ideal Section
During the first few years of its existence, the Lincoln Highway Association (LHA) worked feverishly to promote the idea of a transcontinental highway. The excitement and enthusiasm of Americans for better roads became well . . . — — Map (db m213124) HM
Out of the Mud
The idea that America needed better roads did not originate with the invention of the automobile but with bicyclists known as "wheelmen. "Challenged by rutted roads of gravel and dirt and faced with antagonism from horsemen, . . . — — Map (db m256601) HM
The Lincoln Highway. United States' first transcontinental highway, constructed 1913-1928, from New York City to San Francisco. Dedicated to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Conceived by Carl G. Fisher to encourage building "good roads." . . . — — Map (db m213119) HM
U.S. Representative Katie Hall, standing second from left, witnesses along with other national dignitaries as Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America, signs federal legislation establishing a national holiday honoring the . . . — — Map (db m241793) HM
In the early 1900s, immigrants, white migrants, and black southerners came to Gary for work in the steel industry. Rev. William G. Seaman founded City Church downtown in 1926 to serve as a Christianizing influence on the diverse population. The . . . — — Map (db m200385) HM
Dedicated to the memory of the men and women whose love for this nation enabled them to make the supreme sacrifice of life itself in its defense. — — Map (db m226841) WM
Froebel opened here, 1912, as many European immigrants and southern blacks moved to Gary for jobs in steel mills. An experiment in progressive education, it served students of diverse backgrounds and the local community. Despite early status as . . . — — Map (db m200372) HM
As Gary grew in the early 1900s, African American students were segregated within white schools or overcrowded into small, separate schools. To compensate, officials transferred some Black students to Emerson High School in 1927. After over 600 . . . — — Map (db m200382) HM
Gateway Park
This park, along with City Hall and the County Court Building, was envisioned by the Gary Commerce Club as a "front door" to the city. The City and the Gary Public Transportation Corporation (GPTC) used federal transportation . . . — — Map (db m240904) HM
The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, organized in 1907, became one of the largest and most recognized shows to tour the united States. Resembling a small city, by 1918, it featured over twenty tents, 1000 workers and . . . — — Map (db m238554) HM
By 1921, Indiana University offered courses in Lake County, later establishing extension centers in the Calumet Region. As manufacturing jobs in the area drew Black Americans from the South and European and Latino immigrants. IU offered . . . — — Map (db m244325) HM
Whereas; Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana. He was the seventh of nine children and is recognized as one of Gary's favorite sons, and Whereas; Michael Jackson was an American recording artist, world's greatest . . . — — Map (db m241000) HM
In Loving Memory Of
Michael J. Jackson
(1958 - 2009)
"You gave us a lifetime of love"
The Jackson Family
Parents: Joseph & Katherine
Brothers: Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Randy, Tito
Sisters: Janet, LaToya, Rebbie . . . — — Map (db m200431) HM
Representative Katie Hall (1938-2012). Democratic leader Katie Hall was born in rural Mississippi and moved to Indiana in 1960. She taught in Gary before serving in the Indiana General Assembly, 1974-82. Hall became the first African American . . . — — Map (db m241795) HM
In need of their own place to worship in the segregated city of Gary, a group of Black professionals helped establish St. Augustine's Episcopal Mission in 1927. In the late 1930s and 1940s, Benedictine monks, assigned by the Episcopal Diocese of . . . — — Map (db m298694) HM
St. John's Church, the oldest surviving institution in Gary and north of the Little Calumet River, began with the work of the Rev. Henry Wunder in the early 1860's. He regularly came from Chicago by horse and buggy. Baptism records date from 1863; . . . — — Map (db m200365) HM
Stewart House was organized during depression of 1921 to provide social services for Garys black community. A vital neighborhood center for unemployed WWI veterans and southern blacks who migrated for jobs in steel mills, it helped thousands . . . — — Map (db m200378) HM
In 1955, the city of Gary donated land for the site of a new Indiana University campus, the Gary Extension Center. The first building, Gary Main, opened in 1959. The Indiana limestone structure housed all campus facilities: classrooms, science . . . — — Map (db m293669) HM
Genesis Plaza - Omri Amrany's The Fusion Centennial Sculpture The 40' sculpture, often called "The Steelworkers' Monument," was completed and dedicated in 2006 and installed to mark Gary's centennial,. — — Map (db m240999) HM
During the 1920's, the population of Gary would double. In order to attract and keep good leadership. U.S. Steel needed quality housing available for its managers. Plans were soon conceived for a 68-unit apartment building near the heart of . . . — — Map (db m226732) HM
Gary's first Methodist Church was established in 1906. In October of 1916, Dr. William Gran Seaman became pastor. Seaman relished his role in the growing congregation, but he had bigger dreams; he wanted to build a new church to serve the . . . — — Map (db m227755) HM
Gary City Hall - Bryant Baker's Elbert H. Gary Statue
The bronze statue was sculpted and erected in 1927. Elbert Gary was the key founder of U.S. Steel, bringing together J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles . . . — — Map (db m241907) HM
Gary School Superintendent William Wirt used the Ralph Waldo Emerson School to be the first to use his new Work-Study-Play system of education, a "Whole Child" philosophy. This philosophy drew international attention to Emerson.
The building . . . — — Map (db m227754) HM
Architect Philip Brooks Maher's Gary City Hall Building
City Hall was completed in 1927 by Philip Maher after his father and original architect George W. Maher's death. George drafted a Prairie-style design while . . . — — Map (db m241909) HM
The founding of Gary in 1906 occurred at a time when electric street cars were booming in cities across the country. Provisions were made in the original layout of Gary for electric passenger car rail lines to be placed down the middle of major . . . — — Map (db m241910) HM
This house was the first permanent structure built in Gary, and was the home of Gary's first town hall, polling place, post office, and high school. In 1981 the house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and restored in 1982 . . . — — Map (db m253237) HM
Gary Public Library (GPL) was organized on March 30, 1908 when its first library board met, and Ora L. Wildermuth, Gary Public Library's founder, moved "that we have a Public Library and that the Board proceed to arrange for the same." The . . . — — Map (db m254713) HM
In 1906, a two-level building was erected on the corner of Sth Avenue and Broadway and became the Gary State Bank which operated in the building above until it was razed in 1925 to make way for a new high-rise building.
At first, Horace Mann consisted of two portable trailers near the street on the large property. The first class consisted of 45 students who had previously attended Jefferson School. Demand for the west side school was greater than initially . . . — — Map (db m248460) HM
Shortly after the city's founding by U.S. Steel in 1906, the Gary Heat, Light, and Water Company constructed the utilities necessary for tens of thousands of new residents and businesses. The company hired civil engineer John W. Alvord of . . . — — Map (db m226733) HM
500 Broadway - Jason Bord's Lake Wind Sand Composition Sculpture
This piece, installed in 2018, was part of a public art contest supported by the City of Gary, Legacy Foundation, and the Knight Foundation. The . . . — — Map (db m241912) HM
Gary City Hall - Gary Tillery's Mayor Richard G. Hatcher Statue
This statue honors Mayor Hatcher, one of the first two black mayors to be elected in major cities in the U.S. The bronze statue celebrates this . . . — — Map (db m241908) HM
Gary Public Schools Memorial Auditorium was built in 1927 to honor Gary residents who died in World War I. It was part of an emerging movement to build structures of significant public utility rather than traditional monuments.
In 1967, Mayor Richard Gordon Hatcher became the first elected African American mayor of a major US city. A civil rights luminary, Mayor Hatcher served as advisor to Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter on issues of civil rights and urban . . . — — Map (db m236263) HM
Built in 1910, just four years after the city was founded, the station is located between the elevated lines of the Norfolk Southern and CSX Railroads. The station transported the thousands of workers who came from around the country to work in . . . — — Map (db m236260) HM
The glider you see above you and to your left was designed by Octave Chanute, whose statue you see on your right. In June of 1896 (ten years before Gary, Indiana was founded), Chanute, a leading civil engineer, came across Lake Michigan from . . . — — Map (db m227829) HM
This is to certify that Gary Bathing Beach Aquatorium was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on the 25th day of November 1994 by the United States Department of the Interior in cooperation with the Indiana Department of Natural . . . — — Map (db m226861) HM
In 13,000 BC the shoreline of Lake Michigan was several miles south of this marker, at what is now Ridge Road. As the lake receded over the centuries the shoreline inched north to where you are standing. In 1675 Jesuit explorer Father Marquette . . . — — Map (db m236264) HM
A French Jesuit Priest. One of the earliest Christian teachers of the American Indians landed here AD 1673 in company with the French explorer Louis Joliet. — — Map (db m226864) HM
Marquette Pavilion, built in 1924, is an example of prairie-style architecture.
Can you find these features that are emblematic of this style?
Strong geometry and massing
Horizontal and vertical lines
Brick or stucco exteriors . . . — — Map (db m227758) HM
Octave Chanute arrived at Miller Beach, Gary, Indiana on June 22, 1896 to perform gliding flight experiments in the dunes just west of this site. Over 700 successful flights provided him with significant aerodynamic data.
Chanute willingly . . . — — Map (db m227760) HM
Octave Chanute, a French-born engineer, is celebrated for his pioneering aviation experiments here on the dunes of Lake Michigan. He was an innovator for railroads as well.
He designed wood and iron trestle bridges for some of the most . . . — — Map (db m227830) HM
Made the first successful flights in heavier-than-air craft from these dunes in 1896. This glacial boulder dedicated to his memory in 1936. — — Map (db m236259) HM
The figure of Octave Chanute is pointing toward the dune where, in July of 1896, he conducted his famous experiments with gliders. These experiments had a dramatic impact on the history of aviation. The publicity generated by the experiments . . . — — Map (db m227824) HM
For decades people have enjoyed strolling the bridges to Patterson Island. The small island located in the Grand Calumet Lagoon was enhanced for access during the Great Depression through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). . . . — — Map (db m226859) WM
Of the estimated 1,500 shipwrecks in Lake Michigan, there are 14(*) within Indiana waters. Two lie offshore of Gary. They are identified only as "Unknown 5" and "Unknown 6."
"Unknown 5 and 6" have been identified by archeologists as barges . . . — — Map (db m226863) HM
World's largest freshwater sand dunes in the world line the southern shores of Lake Michigan.
5th largest lake in the world and largest lake in Indiana.
Over 3,500 ships and planes lay at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
You are . . . — — Map (db m226866) HM
The Water Tower of Northwest Indiana Water Company has been a fixture on the Gary skyline since the birth of the city. The concrete structure is 150 feet tall and encloses an elevated, 290,000 gallon capacity, cylindrical steel tank. Originally, the . . . — — Map (db m249547) HM
In 1941 the American military did not want the Tuskegee Airmen to fly. By May 8, 1945, the end of World War II in Europe, only the Nazis felt that way.
The heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen led to President Truman's 1948 order ending racial . . . — — Map (db m227759) HM WM
The EJ&E interlocking tower stood as a sentinel for more than 75 years, controlling rail and automotive traffic on Broad Street. Improvements in technology and the development of satellites replaced the need for such a building and it was phased . . . — — Map (db m200787) HM
This small Grand Trunk combination depot was one of three railroad stations that once stood in Griffith. Eleven tracks then crossed Broad Street, representing five railroads - the Michigan Central, the Grand Trunk, the Erie, the Elgin, Joliet and . . . — — Map (db m200793) HM
Racing Hall of Famer Ray Nichels attended Franklin School, which now houses the Griffith Historical Society. In 1954 Ray and his wife Eleanor established Nichels Engineering, eventually becoming one of auto racing's elite race car building and . . . — — Map (db m226579) HM
These 8000 lb. pillars are mock-ups for the Lake County Interstate Visitor Information Center's 56' high, 3 ft. thick, 5 million pound, "Dune Wall". It took 90 trucks to transport the cement.
The mock-ups were created in order to evaluate the . . . — — Map (db m293054) HM
These 3 pillars are placed in remembrance of the Hammond Optimist Club. The Hammond Optimist Club was formed in 1937. The Club purchased this 34 acre site in 1955 and operated "Optimist Park" until 1996. The Hammond Optimist's ongoing charitable . . . — — Map (db m293053) HM
Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church became a center for religious, political, social, and civic life for Hammond's African American community. Established by black members ca. 1919, the small congregation grew under long-serving pastor Rev. . . . — — Map (db m267379) HM
The CommuniTree Partnership is a collaboration of community, industry and government agencies with a goal of creating a healthier and more diverse tree population in Northwest Indiana. The Partnership launched a grant program in the Spring of 2017 . . . — — Map (db m293014) HM
Dutch immigrants after 1850 began moving to this area because of its similarities to their homeland. They helped to locate ditches to drain water from the extensive marshes, leaving rich land to expand successful horticultural activities. — — Map (db m64160) HM
The National Council for the Encouragement of Patriotism, Inc. in 1970 urged the governors of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida to officially dedicate U.S. Route 41 as the "Highway of Flags" a tribute . . . — — Map (db m302173) HM WM
A rare conifer thought to be long extinct, was rediscovered in 1945, at Szechuan, China.
Foliage, fern like in spring, turns a pale pink before dropping in the fall.
The tree grows here in honor of the 1300 missing in action of the Vietnam . . . — — Map (db m302177) HM WM
In 1966, Mrs. Mary Lou Kieswetter of Munster, Indiana, mother of a young serviceman, became concerned by the lack of respect for the American flag. She launched a personal crusade that has ignited a flame of patriotism throughout our country. . . . — — Map (db m302175) HM
Here, the Potawatomi Indian Trail, a southern branch of the old, historic Ft. Wayne - Ft. Dearborn Trail, proceeded in a southwesterly direction through old Lake Station (East Gary), Liverpool, and on past the Indian ceremonial grounds at Wiggins . . . — — Map (db m254701) HM
This bank or sidehill barn built in 1916 using the latest and best bracing and roof design was the farm's most important structure. It served many functions, including the increasingly profitable dairy operation. The upper floor was mainly hay . . . — — Map (db m286283) HM
Irish immigrants Dennis and Catherine Buckley fled the Potato Famine in the mid-1800's and purchased the original 79 acre homestead for 50’ per acre from soldiers who had received land grants after the war. Thrilled to own his own land, Dennis . . . — — Map (db m286188) HM
Grain brought to the 1916 double-crib granary was stored in bins overhead and ear corn in the cribs along either side. Slatted walls in the cribs allowed air circulation to dry and preserve the farmer's most important crop. The central driveway, . . . — — Map (db m286669) HM
The oldest brick house in Lake County,
home of Melvin Halsted, founder of
Lowell, was built in 1849. His pit and
kilns were located just across Cedar
Creek.
Acquired for the community through the
combined efforts of interested . . . — — Map (db m231125) HM
The main house's original kitchen built in the 1850's adjacent to the NE corner of the house was moved north of the present kitchen in 1917 for use as separate living quarters and later to this present location for use as an office. This replica of . . . — — Map (db m286284) HM
This is the site of the Main Street School grades 1 thru 12, built in 1896 with bricks from the Lowell brick yard. The high school students moved to a new high school in 1916. This school closed in 1973. — — Map (db m231122) HM
Milkhouse
The milkhouse was built about 1916 to cool milk from the Buckley's purebred Holstein cows. Milkcans were set in a tank with cool water pumped in by a windmill. Milk was shipped by train daily to sell in Chicago. Some of the milk . . . — — Map (db m286286) HM
The original Buckley Schoolhouse built on this site, used for classes 1850's-1922, was moved southwest 3 miles to use for farm storage and later torn down. This replica uses bricks from the original foundation along the front. Southern Lake County . . . — — Map (db m286228) HM
Dedicated 1905
In honor of those who served in the Civil,
Mexican, and Spanish-American Wars
and the War of 1812 by the Women of Tri-Creek. — — Map (db m307767) WM
The west part of the near 1920 garage extended the domestic work area for washing and boiling clothes, summer cooking, milk separating, and possibly food preserving and soap-making. Thus it kept the main house cooler and cleaner in the summer. This . . . — — Map (db m286268) HM
After settling and living in a log house for the first few years, the Buckleys built the original or front part of the present house in the early 1850's. It is a typical I-house (found in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa) and characterized by . . . — — Map (db m286269) HM
Originally built about 1850 probably by William Holmes six miles east of here, the log house was discovered under siding and plaster during demolition. The logs were reused to build this house, a sample of mid-1800's southern Lake County. No indoor . . . — — Map (db m286231) HM
Henry D. Palmer, M.D. (1809-1877) located at this site in 1836. First physician in Lake County, he was also counselor to the pioneers for 40 years and member of the underground railroad aiding escaped slaves. — — Map (db m27716) HM
Part of a transcontinental trail used by prehistoric peoples of North America, it passed through modern Detroit, Rock Island and Davenport in the Midwest. The trail was important into the 19th century. — — Map (db m254794) HM
From Danvers, Massachusetts
Entered claim and built log cabin 1835.
Brought family in 1836.
Erected first grist mill in Lake County 1838
Set aside this Commons and planted elms.
Advocated and practiced honesty, morality,
temperance, . . . — — Map (db m270776) HM
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