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According to the United States Census Bureau, the Lakeshore Resort CDP has a total area of 0.38 square miles (0.98 km 2), of which 0.001 square miles (0.003 km 2), or 0.26%, are water. [ 1 ] Demographics
Mitchell hosted a number of manufacturers, including (in 1919) the wagon, truck and bus body enterprises of Ralph H. Carpenter which became known as the Carpenter Body Company. School bus body production continued until 1995. [citation needed] In 1851, the Mitchell area was the birthplace of outlaw and train robber Sam Bass (1851–1878).
Port Mitchell, Indiana. Unincorporated community. Port Mitchell ... Noble County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] History. Port Mitchell was laid out in 1838. [3]
Sam Bass was born in Mitchell, Indiana, on July 21, 1851; the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Jane (Sheeks) Bass. He was orphaned before his fourteenth birthday, and afterwards was raised by an abusive uncle. Bass left home due to this abuse at the age of 19.
In the last decades of the 19th century, the area was a resort with a forty-room inn. In the 1930s a man named Joseph Frisz acquired the land in order to protect it and purchased more land around. His heirs sold the land in 1947 to the holding company "Save the Shades", who in turn gave the land to the state to create Indiana's 15th state park.
Roughly bounded by Tenth, oak, Fifth, and N. Mississippi Sts., Mitchell, Indiana Coordinates 38°44′00″N 86°28′28″W / 38.73333°N 86.47444°W / 38.73333; -86
Mitchell: Lawrence: 1927 1,358 acres (5.50 km 2) Featured a pioneer village, numerous caves, and a memorial to Gus Grissom [27] Summit Lake: New Castle: Henry: 1988 2,680 acres (10.8 km 2) [28] Tippecanoe River
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