Brown family; Brown, George; Architecture; Agriculture
The red brick house at 700 W. Porter Avenue was built in 1885 for George Brown. Constructed in the Queen Anne style popular at that time, the home featured hand-carved fireplaces and oak stair railings, frescoed ceilings, gingerbread trim, and...
Students in the seventh grade at Chesterton Grade School are pictured in their classroom in 1923. Upon the completion of the high school on Morgan Avenue later that year, grades seven through twelve moved to the new building. Westchester Junior...
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...
The library of the E.L. Furness residence, which still stands near U.S. Highway 20 in Furnessville, is seen above. Constructed in 1881 of local brick, the Federal-style 12-room home featured a well-stocked library. The round, wooden openings...
Margaret Larson stands in front of Baillytown School with some of her students in 1921. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, before paved roads and reliable transportation were common, eight small schoolhouses dotted Westchester Township to serve...
Conductor John Slont stands proudly beside car 108 of the Valparaiso and Northern line of the Gary Inter-urban that connected Chesterton with LaPorte, Valparaiso, and Gary and was a one-time rival to the South Shore Railroad. Used for passengers,...
Nicknamed "The Little Train that Could," the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad has provided commuter and recreational transportation for the residents of Westchester Township since 1908. The original orange passenger cars were replaced...
Hageman family; Hageman, Henry (1816-1899); Hageman, Hannah (1820-1891)
Henry (1816-1899) came to Porter County in 1833 and married Hannah Gossett (1820-1891), daughter of landowner and early settler William Gossett, in 1841. Together they had 13 children, 7 of whom lived to maturity. Henry platted the town of...
LaGrange County (Ind.)--Biography; LaGrange County (Ind.)--History; Noble County (Ind.)--Biography;Noble County (Ind.)--History
Part I, History of La Grange county, y J.H.Herick with township histories by various contributors. Part II, History of Noble county, by Weston A. Goodspeed with biographical sketches edited by Charles Blanchard.
Lounging on the platform outside the original wooden Michigan Southern depot around the turn of the century were (left to right): John Thompson, William A. Wood, and Willard Place. The two men on the right are thought to be L. Wicter and Albert...
A photograph of Alice Gray's cabin on the lake called "Driftwood" taken by Captain C.H. Robinson. Robinson wrote on the back of the photograph, "A girl who was a graduate of the University of Chi. and a Ph D. turned hermit and lived in this shack...
Local son Givens is shown in his Indianapolis office on March 20, 1941. Givens was honored by a parade through Chesterton and Porter after his election to state office in 1940. He was also cashier and later Chief Executive Officer of the First...
The Rands, both ornithologists, moved to Chesterton in 1947 after Austin was appointed Curator of Ornithology at the Field Museum. They were actively involved in the local community, writing a weekly column "Country Diary" in the Chesterton...
The Hannells came to the Furnessville area from Chicago during the Depression and were founding members of the artists' community that flourished there. The Hannells built a studio and kiln near their home and used the native red clay to produce...
The Hannells came to the Furnessville area from Chicago during the Depression and were founding members of the artists' community that flourished there. V.M.S. "Vin" Hannell was a painter and a wood sculptor who exhibited nationally and garnered...
