In 1886 the Sandborn Fire Insurance maps list this address as a dwelling but by 1902 it is listed as a bakery. However, one year later a grocery store was located on the property and it remained a grocery store until the mid 1920's. J. H. Waltz...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Gasoline pumps; Automobile service stations; Automobiles; General stores;
Bass Station began as a railroad stop in the 1880's. Soon a couple general stores were built. Many tourists stopped here after arriving on the train or traveling up State Route 29, now U S Highway 35. This particular store was owned by the Lucas...
Starke County (Ind.); Gasoline pumps; Automobile service stations; Bus stops; Cafes;
Van's Inn was located at the south end of Bass Lake. It was a combination bus stop, service station and cafe. Van's Inn was very well-known to both residents and tourists for its Bar-B-Q sandwiches. View looking north. The gasoline pumps are...
Starke County (Ind.); Gasoline pumps; Automobiles;
Standard Oil Service Station at corner of CR210 and SR10 on Bass Lake's east side. Now home to Bass Lake Restaurante. The gasoline pumps here are non-electric or hand-fed pumps.
Starke County (Ind.); Gasoline pumps; Automobiles; Bus stops; Automobile service stations; Cafes;
Van's Inn was located at the south end of Bass Lake. It was a combination bus stop, service station and cafe. Van's Inn was very well-known to both residents and tourists for its Bar-B-Q sandwiches. View looking south.
This is a ledger of the tolls received at Middle Toll Gate in Clark County, Indiana from 1867-1890. The Charlestown and Jeffersonville Turnpike Company managed the toll gate. The ledger was recorded by Thomas F. Prather, W.M. Gibson, A.J. Hay, J.B....
Built in 1908 and located near State Road 7 on the hilltop and demolished in 1968, this was the North Madison Train Station. Bushrod W. Taylor, superintendent of the PRR in Louisville, gave directions for the building of the station. It was for...
A photograph in the Jasper Herald of an over-turned truck, driven by Walter Linne, after its collision with a station wagon, driven by Ronald Marcum. Keywords: truck, accident, cages, newspaper.
Ralph Peebles, station agent and telegraph operator for the Michigan Southern's Chesterton station, is seen above c. 1890 in the interior of the original wooden depot. The building housed grain storage facilities, a freight room, passenger waiting...
Transportation; Railroad; depot; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad built a wooden depot in Chesterton in 1852, just north of Third Street, south of the railroad tracks on land originally owned by the Thomas family. The railroad established a woodlot to the east of the...
