Youth; Recreation; Music; Juke Box; Junior Women's Club
Members of the Junior Women's Club are shown donating a jukebox to the Youth Center in the Lions Club building in 1957. The Chesterton Women's Club, founded in 1934, and the Junior Women's Club, which had its beginning in 1950, have been active...
ecord recording: "Tribute to Virgil I. Grissom" and "Salute to the First Astronauts" by Phil Landgrave and Southern Baptist Seminary Quartet (WSLM Radio Ridge, Salem, IN)
This document came with the original plat of Oakwood Park. It was received for record on April 16, 1896 by J.R. Williams, the Recorder of Kosciusko County.
Westchester Township citizens scoured their basements and garages in September of 1942 to salvage scrap metal in aid of the war effort. Chesterton Town Marshall Joe LaRoche, on the pile wearing a black tie and hat, is shown supervising the growing...
This photograph shows a woman gardening at Oakwood Park, Lot 1. Lot 1 was known in the early years of Oakwood Park as Fredericks' Island. Camp Comfort's name was later changed to "Home Comfort." By 1905, porches had been added to the original house.
William, son of early landowner William Thomas Sr., married Ann, eldest daughter of first settlers Jesse and Jane Morgan, in 1845. William ran a local saw mill and operated a store. In 1852 he platted the town of Calumet (later Chesterton) and...
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916; Vawter, Will, 1871-1941
Photocopy of a newspaper article clipping from the Greenfield Daily Reporter. Article discusses Will Vawter's marriages and lists his death as February 11, 1941 and states that he was buried in Park Cemetery. Vawter contributed illustrations for...
