Duneland Historical Highlights #1

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Across
  1. 4. a 1914 hoof and mouth disease outbreak forces Porter County to do this much like 2020
  2. 6. in 1938 William Murray opened this attraction in west Chesterton
  3. 11. a huge bust for Westchester Township and A. F. Knotts that opened and closed in 1912
  4. 12. the Duneland town that incorporated in 1869
  5. 16. where Anders and Johanna Chellberg settled in 1863
  6. 17. School Administration offices moved into this house in 1964 (2 words)
  7. 18. type of missile base that U.S. Army opened in Porter in 1957
  8. 19. the town’s first coin operated laundry in 1947 opened on 5th Street
  9. 20. opened by Westchester Ministerial Association in 1982 (2 words)
  10. 22. sand barge that sank in Lake Michigan in 1911 (2 words)
  11. 24. in 1962 these safety structures were located at Yost School, Chesterton HS, Bethlehem Lutheran Church and Dunes State Park Pavilion (2 words)
  12. 25. held first anti-nuclear rally in Chesterton in 1977 (2 words)
  13. 27. 1961 selected site for the Indiana Port (2 words)
Down
  1. 1. huge 1917 beach event supporting a Dunes National Park
  2. 2. what theater had first talking pictures in 1930 Chesterton (2 words)
  3. 3. Porter Cot’s State Militia Company L sent to help during this 1916 campaign on the Mexican border (2 words)
  4. 5. railroad wreck west of Gary that killed over 80 in 1918 (2 words)
  5. 7. used as Chesterton’s first town jail in 1899 (2 words)
  6. 8. town platted in 1855 by firm of Richards & Travel (2 words)
  7. 9. white supremist group held rallies in Chesterton and Valparaiso in 1923 (3 words)
  8. 10. Porter school that opened in 1950
  9. 12. established the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966
  10. 13. Potawatomi woman who received government land in 1832 that became the village of Calumet
  11. 14. in 1934 Robert Bartlett purchased and relocated sixteen structures from 1933-34 World's Fair in Chicago (3 words)
  12. 15. published book “A French Homestead in the Old Northwest” in 1907 (2 words)
  13. 21. site of Liberty Township train wreck that killed 61 immigrants in 1906
  14. 23. mass death of this tiny fish clogged Lake Michigan beaches in 1967
  15. 26. in 1973 these Duneland school resources were judged best in the nation