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This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Porter County, Indiana, United States by the Indiana Historical Bureau. The locations of the historical markers and their latitude and longitude coordinates are included below when available, along with their names, years of placement, and topics as ...
Location of Porter County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Porter County, Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Porter County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Located in Boone Township, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Hebron, Aylesworth is still an active grain elevator of the Cargill Corporation. [1] The elevator is located on County Road 250 West at Indiana Route 8. [2] The community was named for a local family and grew up around a flag stop on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ...
The Collier Lodge site, located in Porter County, Indiana, is one of the few places the Kankakee Marsh could be easily crossed. [2] The site has been occupied for over 11,000 years with evidence of human occupation from 1,000 B.C.E. Historic records of humans occupation in northwestern Indiana are available from the late seventeenth century.
The current Boone Grove High School is not located in the community of Boone Grove, but rather in Valparaiso, Indiana, although 5.5 miles (8.9 km) outside of that city; County Road 260 South 500 West is the school's postal address. The former high school (which now operates as Boone Grove Elementary and Middle School) is located in Boone Grove ...
Porter Merriman Cemetery: c. 1860–c. 1979 [4] 250 N at 275 W Porter front Hebron Cemetery: c. 1838–present [4] 900 S and US 231, Hebron Boone pg 47 back Cornell Cemetery c. 1840–present [4] North of State Route 8, must north of 350W Boone pg 53 back Hopewell Cemetery South Baums Bridge Road, just before SR 8 Pleasant back Spencer Cemetery
Porter County is part of Indiana's 1st congressional district. In state government, Porter County is in Indiana Senate districts 4th, 5th and 6th; in Indiana House of Representatives districts 3rd, 4th, 10th, 19th and 20th. For most of its history, Porter County was a Republican Party stronghold in presidential elections.
In 1840, there was a visit to the now abandoned village by a few people, including a 12-year-old T.H. Ball, who found only empty homes at the site of the village. The last word of the fate of City West was in 1854, when people nearby noticed the smell of burning wood and a glow in the sky in the direction of City West and Lake Michigan.