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Dune Acres, IN
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Porter County, 32 miles SE of the Loop. Dune Acres, platted in 1923, was envisioned as an exclusive, year-round shore-line community akin to those found along Illinois' north shore. By the 1930s it had quickly become a recreational community of summer homes, many owned by Chicagoans, with few permanent residents. It is now surrounded by the
Indiana Dunes
National Lakeshore.
| Dune Acres, IN (inc. 1923) | |||||
| Year |
Total
(and by category) |
Foreign Born | Native with foreign parentage | Males per 100 females | |
| 1930 | 12 | — | — | — | |
| 1960 | 238 | — | — | — | |
| 1990 | 263 | 7.6% | — | 95 | |
| 256 | White (97.3%) | ||||
| 9 | Asian/Pacific Islander (3.4%) | ||||
| 2000 | 213 | 7.5% | — | 105 | |
| 211 | White alone (99.1%) | ||||
| 2 | Two or more races (0.9%) | ||||
| 3 | Hispanic or Latino* (1.4%) | ||||
Bibliography
Engel, J. Ronald.
Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes.
1983.
Moore, Powell A.
The Calumet Region, Indiana's Last Frontier.
1977.
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