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Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, U. S. Senators Alan Bible and Paul Douglas at the Indiana Dunes, 1961, Photographer: Anthony B. Cak(
Historical Source
) ...Dunes, 1961...
...Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, U. S. Senators Alan Bible and Paul Douglas at the Indiana...
...Paul Douglas continued his efforts towards Dunes preservation as he led a delegation of federal and...
Date Created: 1961,
Date Depicted: 1961
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Dunes on South Chicago Beach, c. 1898, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Dunes on South Chicago Beach, c. 1898...
...Dunes on South Chicago beach, c. 1898...
Date Created: c.1898,
Date Depicted: c.1898
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Building a Harbor for U.S. Steel, Gary, Indiana, c.1906, Photographer: U. S. Steel Corp.(
Historical Source
) ...Building a Harbor for U.S. Steel, Gary, Indiana, c.1906...
...As part of its mill complex, Indiana Steel (the subsidiary of U. S. Steel charged with building and...
Date Created: c.1906,
Date Depicted: c.1906
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Finding a Playground, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Indiana Dunes Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water in Chicago Essay: People and the...
...Chicago River Photo Essays: Goose Island Indiana Dunes Essay: Sanitation in Chicago Photo Essays:...
...Development Growing Up Along Water Indiana Dunes Finding a Playground in the Sand Proponents of a...
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Ecology and Conservation, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...for real estate developers. Towns like Ogden Dunes, which was incorporated in 1925, grew slowly at...
...1950s, several of these residents, most notably Dorothy Buell, led the fight for Dunes preservation....
...See also: Chesterton, IN ; Dune Acres, IN ; Ogden Dunes, IN ; Real Estate The Electronic...
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Michigan City, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
Authored Entry
) ...center, this small city is now best known as a tourist hub for the Indiana Dunes territory. When...
...federal surveyors arrived in the Lake Michigan dunes , they saw the low, swampy site at the mouth of...
...with easy access to Michigan City and the dunes beaches. (They also provided Michigan City residents...
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First National Park in the Middle West, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...people lived within a 90-minute drive of the Dunes National Park. See Also: Chicago, South Shore &...
...3 percent were from other areas of Illinois, Indiana, and the nation. This study did not take into...
...Indiana Dunes Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water in Chicago Essay: People and the...
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Beverly Shores, IN, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
Authored Entry
) ...resort community of Beverly Shores, Indiana, lies among the sand dunes of Lake Michigan's southern...
...shore, surrounded by Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The history of Beverly Shores is linked to...
...Insull's investments and the opening of the Dunes Highway several years before, the Bartlett Company...
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Industrial Expansion, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...by U. S. Senator Paul Douglas, long-time champion of Dunes preservation. Less publicized than...
...the city of Chicago soon thereafter purchased Dunes sand for use at Oak Street Beach. See also:...
...Indiana Dunes Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water in Chicago Essay: People and the...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 1, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Indiana Dunes Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water in Chicago Essay: People and the...
...Chicago River Photo Essays: Goose Island Indiana Dunes Essay: Sanitation in Chicago Photo Essays:...
...Development Growing Up Along Water Indiana Dunes Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward Steel Mills on...
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Plant Communities, Gerould Wilhelm(
Authored Entry
) ...marsh, fen, bog, swamp, forest, savanna, dune , and prairie—and a ruderal community. Aquatic Aquatic...
...kames, eskers, moraines, river bluffs, or even dunes, or in flats associated with these formations....
...acid bog, often in sand flats or basins in the dune region, are floating sedge mats that rise and...
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Refining, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1890. Now owned by BP Amoco (Standard of Indiana, long a huge multinational corporation, changed...
...Company opened its new refinery in Whiting , Indiana, in 1890, the facility ranked as the largest...
...of the 1880s, when the Standard Oil Company of Indiana was created as a new subsidiary of the giant...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 2, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Steel Corp. Source: Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest, Gary The construction...
...Reform ; Housing Types Panoramic View of U.S. Steel Plant, Gary, Indiana, 1936 Photographer: U. S....
...Steel Corp. Source: Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest, Gary The expansive mill...
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Chesterton, IN, Margaret D. Doyle(
Authored Entry
) ...Illinois, and other interested groups, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was established in 1966....
...This park, together with the Indiana Dunes State Park, which opened to the...
...public in 1926, preserves the remaining dunes of the south shore of Lake Michigan for recreational...
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Schererville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
Authored Entry
) ...as Chicago commuters took advantage of Indiana's lower taxes while remaining in close proximity to...
...Trail, the major east-west thoroughfare between Indiana and Illinois. The first American settlers...
...emigrated from Germany and arrived at St. John , Indiana, near the Reeder farm. His brother Mathias...
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Merrillville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
Authored Entry
) ...Merrillville continued to serve as northwest Indiana's commercial hub. Its population stabilized and...
...of the Loop. Known as “Downtown Northwest Indiana,” the town of Merrillville, just south of Gary ,...
...the Sauk Trail, a major east-west route through Indiana and into Illinois. In addition, the site...
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Ecosystem Evolution, Eric C. Grimm(
Authored Entry
) ...savanna, with distinctive vegetation on sand dunes adjacent to Lake Michigan. Soils, topography ,...
...prairie, but paralleling Lake Michigan were sand dunes with black oak scrub having an understory of...
...pine (Pinus banksiana) also occurred on the dunes, and a few white pine (Pinus strobus) occurred in...
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Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...and northwestern Indiana, where lonely sand dunes and swamps were transformed into vast industrial...
...of Lake Michigan in what would become Gary , Indiana. By the 1920s, the Gary Works had 12 blast...
...mills in the Calumet district and northern Indiana. Inland Steel, which was established in Chicago...
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K-Town, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...it to some western streets in 1913. K-Town thus marks the eleventh mile from the Indiana state line....
...prepared a plan in which each mile west of the Indiana-Illinois border was assigned a successive...
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Environmentalism, David Stradling(
Authored Entry
) ...activists also played a crucial role in the preservation of the Indiana Dunes . As early as 1914...
...the Chicago Conservation Council worked to preserve the spectacular dunes. Since that time...
...have worked to create and expand the Indiana Dunes State Park (1923) and the Indiana Dunes National...
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