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Cedar Lake is a town in Hanover and Center townships, Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is near the Illinois state line. Its population was 11,560 at the 2010 census. The town is notable for its location on Cedar Lake, the Lake of the Red Cedars museum. Cedar Lake is also bordered to Crown Point, Indiana.
Location of Lake County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lake County, Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lake County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
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Creston was originally called Cedar Lake, but the name was changed in 1882 when the Monon Railroad was extended to that point. [3] [4] The early settlers of Cedar Lake were almost all descendants of the Revolutionary War soldier Obadiah Taylor I who settled there. [3] The town was planned out mostly by Obadiah Taylor III and Brant McAllen.
Monon Park Dancing Pavilion is a historic dance hall building located at Cedar Lake, Lake County, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1897, as a one-story, open air frame building supported by brick piers. The building measures 55 feet by 110 feet and has a massive gable-on-hip roof with deeply overhanging eaves.
Mining brought the first Europeans to the region with a small, ill-fated gold rush occurring in 1895 and 1896 near Bugaboo Falls. The area was prospected and staked, but the meager deposits turned out to be mostly pyrite and galena. [4] The name "Bugaboo" originated from this rush; the term was used by prospectors for a "dead-end". [5]
Wallace Peak is located in The Bugaboos, at the head of Vowell Creek in Bugaboo Provincial Park. [5] Precipitation runoff from Wallace Peak's east slope drains into the headwaters of Vowell Creek → Bobbie Burns Creek → Spillimacheen River → Columbia River; and from the west slope to Duncan River via East Creek.
The town competed with the settlements of Lake Court House and Cedar Lake for the position of county seat in 1839. A wealthy land speculator named George Earle, who had acquired much of the surrounding territory, campaigned in support of Liverpool, and a commission decided in Liverpool's favor, making it the seat of Lake County.