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MICHIGAN CENTRAL DEPOT AND VICINITY(Washington St. and the harbor)This now abandoned structure was the third depot of the Michigan Central (Penn Central) RR. The original depot, built in the 1850’s, was located on the opposite side of the tracks. It was in front of that depot that the funeral train bearing the body of Abraham […]
The building was constructed in 1858 by the U.S. government to provide navigation aid to ships on Lake Michigan. Over the years Michigan City’s beacon became known as “Old Faithful” because of the conscientious services of its lighthouse keepers. The most famous of these lighthouse keepers was Harriet Colfax, who worked for 43 years until […]
Plum Grove, on the old Sauk Trail east of the previous location of Bob’s Barbeque, was the place where the Indians were assembled to be taken to Kansas in 1838–the March of Death. Miriam Benedict came to La Porte County in 1829. Her’s was the first white family to settle in what is now La […]
Once Indiana’s most famous landmark, Hoosier Slide was a huge sand dune bordering the west side of Trail Creek where it entered Lake Michigan. At one time it was nearly 200 feet tall, mantled with trees. Cow paths marked its slopes and people picnicked upon its crest. With the development of Michigan City, the timber […]
As early as 1828, a group of surveyors determined that the mouth of the creek provided the best location along the Indiana shoreline for the development of a commercial harbor and city. A signal day for the new town was July 4, 1836, when the first commercial vessel ever entered Trail Creek. The small vessel, […]
An early view of Franklin Street (facing south) preserves the plank pavement and hitching posts of the era; lost are the smells of open sewers and the ever-present horse manure. Michigan City probably got its name from the Michigan Road, the great thoroughfare which had its northern terminus at the mouth of Trail Creek. Farsighted […]
The most famous haunted house in LaPorte is currently the site of the “I” Street Clinic on the corner of “I” and Tenth streets. There was originally a mansion at the site built by Dr. George L. Andrew between 1845 and 1850. There were many families who subsequently lived in this home. The Gwynne family […]
The United States War Department chose LaPorte County as one of the sites for a munitions plant during World War II. It was called the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant (KOP). There were several reasons LaPorte was chosen as a site for this munitions plant. It was far enough away from both coasts to escape invasion or […]