Near Ridge Road east of Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
The Bieker's home and barn sat on 44 acres of land. In 1969, Helen Kaske Bieker, pictured to the right, sold 32 acres of the land on the westside of Columbia Avenue to the Munster Parks Department and the Munster School Board for $50,000.
The . . . — — Map (db m299111) HM
Near Ridge Road east of Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
37 fiberglass tulip structures, which were organized and made possible by the Munster Civic Foundation, are located around town. Indiana University Northwest student, Tyler Kaufman, designed the tulip structures. The tulips represented the first . . . — — Map (db m301768) HM
Near Ridge Road east of Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Brass Tavern
In 1837, David Gibson built a log stagecoach inn near the corner of today's Ridge Road and Columbia Avenue.
Julia Watkins Brass, pictured to the left, and husband Allan Brass took over the property in 1845. The building, . . . — — Map (db m298820) HM
Aartje Jabaay
Accompanying her husband Peter, they were the first Dutch immigrants to acquire land along Old Pike (Ridge Road).
Martha Dyer Hart
Martha and her husband Aaron owned most of south Munster, substantial tracts in Crown . . . — — Map (db m301719) HM
Near Ridge Road east of Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Munster's Beginnings Until 1763, the Munster area was under French rule. The area was then under British rule until after the Revolutionary War.
In 1816, Indiana became the 19th state, but the Munster area was an undeveloped swamp.
In . . . — — Map (db m299094) HM
Oak Woodland Restoration
Heritage Park is located on the narrow sand ridge, once the Lake Michigan shoreline, and is home to native Black and White Oaks. Without management for 75 years, the woodland had become crowded with non-native or . . . — — Map (db m298701) HM
Near Ridge Road at Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Monarch migration path
Did you know?
Munster Indiana is on the direct path that Monarchs fly north from Mexico in the spring and south from Canada in the fall.
We help by providing Milkweed as their host plants for the caterpillars, and . . . — — Map (db m301770) HM
Near Ridge Road east of Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
The earliest known windmills were developed in Persia more than a thousand years ago. However, the early windmills were not nearly as efficient as they are today. Even as late as the 1400's, large European windmills had to be turned by hand to . . . — — Map (db m298481) HM
Near Ridge Road near Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Schools
The area's first school opened in 1852 by the North Township Trustee. It was a one-room schoolhouse on the corner of Ridge Road and present-day Greenwood Avenue. The small 14 by 16 foot building cost $16. Chauncey Wilson was the first . . . — — Map (db m299976) HM
On Ridge Road at Columbia Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Ridge Road.
Site of Brass Tavern
Only one on Chicago Trail through Lake County.
Tablet placed on horse block from Brass Homestead by the Julia Watkins Brass Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Crown Point, Indiana 1926 . . . — — Map (db m298512) HM
On Columbia Avenue at Ridge Road, on the right when traveling east on Columbia Avenue.
Stallbohm Barn-Kaske House
Circa 1890 Circa 1910
have been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
April 1, 1998 — — Map (db m302171) HM
