Duneland Historical Highlights #1

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  1. 2. shelters, in 1962 these safety structures are located at Yost School, Chesterton HS, Bethlehem Lutheran Church and Dunes State Park Pavilion (2 words)
  2. 3. Villa, Porter County’s State Militia Company L sent to help during this 1916 campaign on the Mexican border (2 words)
  3. 5. Ditch, 1961 selected site for the Indiana Port (2 words)
  4. 8. a Liberty Township train wreck that killed 61 immigrants in 1906
  5. 10. Porter School that opens in 1950
  6. 18. a 1914 hoof and mouth disease outbreak forces Porter County to do this
  7. 19. Pantry, opened by Westchester Ministerial Association in 1982 (2 words)
  8. 20. Howe, publishes book “A French Homestead in the Old Northwest” in 1907 (2 words)
  9. 21. of Progress, in 1934 Robert Bartlett purchased and relocated sixteen structures from this 1933-34 World's Fair in Chicago (3 words)
  10. 22. the Duneland town that incorporated in 1869
  11. 23. in 1973 these Duneland school resources are judged best in the nation
  12. 26. establishes the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966
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  1. 1. Potawatomi woman who received government land in 1832 that became the village of Calumet
  2. 4. Klux Klan, white supremist group held rallies in Chesterton and Valparaiso in 1923 (3 words)
  3. 5. where Anders and Johanna Chellberg settled in 1863
  4. 6. the town’s first coin operated laundry in 1947 opened on 5th Street
  5. 7. Marshall, sand barge that sinks in Lake Michigan in 1911 (2 words)
  6. 9. in 1938 William Murray opens this attraction in west Chesterton
  7. 11. a huge bust for Westchester Township that opened and closed in 1912
  8. 12. Cage, used as Chesterton’s first town jail in 1899 (2 words)
  9. 13. huge 1917 beach event in the dunes
  10. 14. mass death of this tiny fish clog Lake Michigan beaches in 1967
  11. 15. Theater, location of first talking pictures in 1930 Chesterton (2 words)
  12. 16. train, wreck west of Gary that kills 80 in 1918 (2 words)
  13. 17. Station, town platted in 1855 by firm of Richards & Travel (2 words)
  14. 24. Alliance, holds first anti-nuclear rally in Chesterton in 1977 (2 words)
  15. 25. Mansion, School Administration offices are moved into this house in 1964 (2 words)
  16. 27. type of missile base that U.S. Army opens in Porter in 1957