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Chesterton is a town in Westchester, Jackson and Liberty townships in Porter County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [5] The population was 14,241 at the 2020 Census . The three towns of Chesterton, Burns Harbor , and Porter are known as the Duneland area.
A school was located approximately one-half mile west of the cross roads. A post office began operation here under the name Porters Cross Roads on May 1, 1844, with Aaron Servis appointed as the first postmaster (1844–1850, 1855–1859). The post office ceased operations on August 19, 1873.
The Chesterton Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Chesterton, Indiana. Originally called Coffee Creek and located a little to the south of the current downtown, the name was changed some time after the post office was established in 1833 to Calumet , the river to the north.
104 Indiana Ave. Valparaiso: Originally, the Chaplain Brown GAR Post No. 106. Designed in 1892 by local architect, Charles F. Lembke, using Romanesque styling, it was built in 1892-3 to seat 100 people. It was also used as the local opera house.
Goodrum Junction was a rail junction in the township located east of the intersection of present-day County Road 950 North and Indiana State Road 49.The Goodrum station was the intersection of interurban feeder routes arriving from Valparaiso (the Valparaiso and Northern Railway) and Chesterton and the terminus of the only constructed section of the Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad.
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