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The News-Dispatch of Michigan City was established in 1938 through the merger of the Michigan City News and the Michigan City Evening Dispatch. [1] [2] In September 2007, Small Newspaper Group sold the La Porte Herald-Argus to Paxton Media Group. [3]
LaPorte County [5] is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana.As of 2020, the population was 112,417. [6] The county seat is the city of La Porte, [7] and the largest city is Michigan City.
By 1835, the settlement had grown to the extent that La Porte was incorporated as a town. A newspaper was established in 1836. La Porte Medical School, the first of its kind in the Midwest, was founded in 1842. By 1852, La Porte had become a well-established settlement of considerable size for its time and vicinity, with 5,000 residents.
Many of these early commercial buildings were replaced during the late nineteenth century. The focal point of the district, the La Porte County Courthouse, was constructed between 1890 and 1894. This Richardsonian Romanesque building was designed by Brentwood Tolan, who also designed other Indiana county courthouses. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
A twentieth century history and biographical record of La Porte County, Indiana. LaPorte County Soil and Water Conservation District (2009). Galena River Watershed: Watershed Characteristics (PDF). Mierzwa, Ken (2005). "Habitat utilization and status of the Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake, Sistrurus catenatus catenatus, in the Chicago region" (PDF).
Kingsbury is a town in Washington Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, just northwest of the intersection of U.S. Route 35 and U.S. Route 6.The town was founded in 1835 [4] and incorporated on March 3, 1941.
Westville is a town in New Durham Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. The population, as of the 2020 census is 5,257. It is included in the Michigan City, Indiana-La Porte, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. Westville is located in Northwest Indiana, also known as The Region.