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• Lake County, Indiana Visitors Center
• Lake County, Indiana Convention & Visitors Guide
• INGenWeb for Lake County Genealogy - by Kathy Huish
• Penny Postcards from Lake County, Indiana
• Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society
  • Northwest Indiana Views
• Griffith Historical Society, Inc.
  
    P.O. Box 678 - Griffith, IN 46319
• Griffith Historical Park and Depot Museum
  
   Broad Street & Avenue "A" - Griffith, IN 46319
• Earle Grist Mill in Hobart, Indiana (on the School City of Hobart site).
• Historical Articles on the Development of the Lincoln Highway
• LakeNet - information for Northwest Indiana Community, Culture, etc.
• Map of the Calumet Region, 1889, on the Eve of Its Major Industrial Development (Whiting Library site)
• Use the query form, at USGS, to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
• 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
• The Doughboy Center - presented by The Great War Society.
• countyhistory.com: for Lake County, by Ronald Branson!
• World War II Veterans Online Information Center
• Indiana Department of Veterans' Affairs
• Indianapolis, Indiana Regional Office
• Veteran's Burial & Memorial Benefits
• How to Obtain Military Records: Military service records are kept by the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) which is under the jurisdiction of the National Archives and Records Administration.  See: Standard Form 180 -
• Request Pertaining to Military Records.
• Indiana State Library.
   140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
• Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
• Indiana Biography Index
• Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
• Images from the County
• County Newspaper Holdings (in Indianapolis)
• WWII Servicemen Index
• Polish Genealogical Society of America
  
• Lake County Public Library
   
• 1919 West 81st Ave. - Merrillville, Indiana 46410.
• Indiana Room
• Genealogy Requests
• Indiana Roots
• Hammond Public Library
  
   564 State Street - Hammond, IN 46320      Phone: (219) 852-2230
   Reference Questions:  Phone: (219) 852-2243 or E-mail: infodesk@hammond.lib.in.us
• Times Obituaries Online Indices
• East Chicago Public Library
• 2401 East Columbus Drive - East Chicago IN 46312   Phone: (219) 397-2453
• Whiting Public Library
  • 1735 Oliver Street - Whiting, IN 46394;  Phone:  (219) 473-4700
  • Local History Room
  • Obituary Index
  • Map of the Calumet Region, 1889, on the Eve of Its Major Industrial Development
• Crown Point Community Library
  • 214 S. Court Street - Crown Point, IN  46307     Phone: (219) 663-0270
• Winfield Library
  • 10645 Randolph Street (in Winfield Township Building) - Crown Point, IN  46307   Phone: (219) 662-4039
• Lake County, Indiana
  • Requesting Lake County birth certificates
    
• Lake County Health Department (For Birth & Death Certificates from ca. 1882)
   2293 North Main Street - Crown Point, IN 46307-1896  Phone: (219) 755-3655.
• East Chicago City Health Department
   
• 100 West Chicago Ave. - East Chicago, IN 46312  Phone: (219) 391-8467.
• Gary City Health Department
  
• 1145 West Fifth Avenue - Gary, IN 46402-1795  Phone: (219) 882-1113.
• Hammond City Health Department Vital Records Division
  
• 649 Conkey Street - Hammond, IN 46324-1101  Phone: (219) 853-6366.
• Lake Circuit Court Clerk (For Marriage, Divorce & Probate Records)
    
• Courts Building 2293 North Main Street - Crown Point, IN 46307 
• Phone: (219) 755-3465.  

Calument Township - Communities include:  Aetna, Black Oak, Clarke, Gary, Griffith, Miller and Ross.  Pine and Weston appear to have been near the Buffington Harbor.  The Buffington Harbor and Gary Harbor are also in this township.
• Calumet Township Assessor
• Gary, Indiana Home Page
• Gary Public Library
  
   220 West 5th Avenue - Gary, IN  46402-1270     Phone:  (219) 886-2484.
• Local History
• The Tolleston Cemetery, with a brief history of Tolleston:  located on Grant Street at about 19th Avenue, Gary, Calumet Township, Indiana:  "...Until 1868, Tolleston was in North Township.  With the founding of Hammond in that year a new township, Calumet Township, was carved out of North Township and Tolleston was included in this new township...In 1911, Tolleston was incorporated into the city of Gary...", transcribed and posted online, by Cindy Bryant  <cbryant@qtm.net> and Teri Shaffer-Roach  <WannaScrap@aol.com>.
• Miller Cemetery
   Located on Hwy. 20, between S. Huntington Street and Jay Street, near Miller, Indiana (the area of greater Gary, Indiana), and about 2 miles west of the Lake and Porter counties boundary.
   Miller Cemetery Gravestones, read by Mrs. Joseph E. Brown and Mrs. W.A. McBride of the Julia Watkins Brass Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., Crown Point, Indiana, in 1957, and posted online by Steve Spicer.
• Town of Griffith, Indiana
• Griffith Historical Society, Inc.
  
    P.O. Box 678 - Griffith, IN 46319
• Griffith Historical Park and Depot Museum
  
   Broad Street & Avenue "A" - Griffith, IN
• Griffith Branch Public Library
  
   940 N. Broad Street - Griffith, IN 46319-1528    Phone: (219) 838-2825.


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Cedar Creek Township - Communities include:  Lake Dalecarlia, Lowell, Orchard Grove and Shelby.    The community of Creston is located on the West Creek-Cedar Creek township line.
• Lowell Public Library
   1505 East Commercial Avenue - Lowell, IN 46356   Phone: (219) 696-7704.
• The History of Lowell, Indiana, by Richard C. Schmal, Lowell's Town Historian.
• Three Creeks Historical Association meets at the Lowell Public Library.

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Center Township - Communities include:  Crown Point, Hawthorne Hills, Liberty Park, Prairie View, Shady Lawn and Wald View.
• www.crownpoint.net - Crown Point's comprehensive online guide, with local information, history and colorful photos.
• St. Mary Catholic Church [Est. 1868]
    321 E. Joliet Street - Crown Point, IN 46307-4095     Phone: (219) 663-0044
• H. J. Alerding's, 1907, "History of St. Mary's Catholic Parish", transcribed.
• Crown Point Community Library
  
   214 South Court Street - Crown Point  46307-3975    Phone:  (219) 663-0270.
• Winfield Library
   10645 Randolph Street (Winfield Township Building) - Crown Point, IN 46307
     Phone: (219) 662-4039.


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Eagle Creek Township - Communities include:  Dinwiddie, Range Line and Southeast Grove.
Cemeteries in Eagle Creek Township include:
1) Southeast Grove Cemetery
      155th and Southgrove Road, Eagle Creek Township, Crown Point, IN
2) Plum Grove Cemetery
       Plum Grove Cemetery is located on State Road 2, between Broadway Street and Mississippi Street, just west of Dinwiddie, Indiana and I-65, in Eagle Creek Township, (Latitude: 411721N; Longitude: 0871906W)
     Burials in Plum Grove Cemetery, compiled by Mrs. Joseph Brown and Mrs. Waldon A. McBride of the Julia Watkins Brass Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., in 1953, posted online by Kathy Huish.


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Hanover Township - Communities include:  Brunswick, Cedar Lake, Cook, Klaasville and Kreitzburg.
• History of St. Anthony's Church in Klaasville, Indiana., from Rt. Rev. Alerding's 1907 History of the Diocese of Fort Wayne.
• Lake County Public Library - Cedar Lake Branch
  
   13330 Parrish Street- Cedar Lake, IN 46303-9201    Phone: (219) 374-7121.


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Hobart Township - Communities include:  Hobart, Lake Station, Liverpool and New Chicago.
 
• Earle Grist Mill in Hobart, Indiana (on the School City of Hobart site).
• Take a Walking Tour of Hobart on Frank and Jackie Tromble's site.
• Hobart Township Branch Libraries
• Hobart Branch Lake County Public Library
   100 N. Main Street - Hobart, IN 46342-4391    Phone: (219) 942-2243.
• Hobart Carnegie Library (Hobart Historical Society Museum)
   706 E 4th Street - Hobart, IN
Hobart Carnegie Library is on the Historic Landmarks in Northwest Indiana list
• St. Bridget Catholic Church [est. 1873] - See: 1907:  History of  St. Bridget's Church.
    568 East 2nd Street - Hobart, IN 46342  Phone: (219) 942-6441.
• Lake Station Branch Lake County Public Library
   2400 Central Avenue - Lake Station, IN 46405-2122    Phone: (219) 962-2409.


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North Township - Communities include:  East Chicago, Hammond, Highland, Maynard, Munster, Roby and Whiting.  The Indiana Harbor is in this township.
• Lake County, Indiana Visitors Center
• City of Hammond (official) City Government Directory.
• History of the City of Hammond
• Hammond Public Library
   564 State Street - Hammond, IN 46320      Phone: (219) 852-2230
   Reference Questions:  Phone: (219) 852-2243 or E-mail: infodesk@hammond.lib.in.us
• Times Obituaries Online Indices
• Whiting Public Library
  • 1735 Oliver Street - Whiting, IN 46394;  Phone:  (219) 473-4700
  • Local History Room
  • Obituary Index
  • Map of the Calumet Region, 1889, on the Eve of Its Major Industrial Development
• Munster Historical Society
• 1005 Ridge Road - Munster, IN  46321     Phone: (219) 836-6932
• Northwest Indiana Views:  Indiana Harbor (ca. 1913 postcards)
  
• Marktown Preservation Society
    405 Prospect St., East Chicago, IN 46312   Phone: (219) 397-2239
   "...The Mark Town Site was built in 1917 by Chicago Industrialist Clayton Mark Sr. and was designed to be used as housing for his rapidly expanding Indiana Harbor Works of the Mark Manufacturing Company of Evanston, Illinois..."
• The Tolleston Cemetery, with a brief history of Tolleston:  located on Grant Street at about 19th Avenue, Gary, Calumet Township, Indiana:  "...Until 1868, Tolleston was in North Township.  With the founding of Hammond in that year a new township, Calumet Township, was carved out of North Township and Tolleston was included in this new township...In 1911, Tolleston was incorporated into the city of Gary...", transcribed and posted online, by Cindy Bryant  <cbryant@qtm.net> and Teri Shaffer-Roach  <WannaScrap@aol.com>.
• Hessville / Paupers Cemetery
   Arizona and 169th Streets - Hammond, IN (Hessville)
   Hessville and Paupers Cemetery Readings, walked and recorded by Ann Keightley, in 1987, and donated to the US GenWeb by friends and family members, in the late Ann Keightley's honor.
• East Chicago, Indiana
• Historic Churches of East Chicago
• East Chicago Public Library
   2401 East Columbus Drive - East Chicago  46312-2998     Phone: (219) 397-2453.
• Highland Branch Public Library
   2841 Jewett Street - Highland, IN 46322-1617    Phone: (219) 838-2394.
• Highland Historical Society and Museum
   Lincoln Center Building at 2450 Lincoln Street in Highland Indiana
• Munster Branch Lake County Public Library
   8701 Calumet Avenue - Munster, IN 46321-2526   Phone: (219) 836-8450.
• Whiting, Indiana
• The Whiting - Robertsdale Historical Society
• Whiting Public Library
   1735 Oliver Street - Whiting, IN 46394
   Phone: (219) 473-4700   E-mail:  cyh@whiting.lib.in.us
• Local Information regarding the City of Whiting, Indiana

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Ross Township - Communities include:  Ainsworth, Deep River, Green Acres, Hornbeck, Independence Hill, Lincoln Village, Lottaville, Merrillville and Turkey Creek Meadows.
• The Merrillville Cemetery, Ross Township, Located on Old County Road
330 (73rd Avenue) in Merrillville Indiana, transcribed and posted online, by Kathy Huish.
• Lake County Public Library
   1919 West 81st Avenue - Merrillville, IN  46410-5382    Phone:  (219) 769-3541.

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St. John Township - Communities include:   Dyer, Hartsdale, Lake Hills, New Elliott, St. John and Schererville.
• Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church was established in 1847 : "The Oldest Parish in NW Indiana" - The parish website includes a brief History 1839-1998.
         Mailing address: P.O. Box 360 - St. John, IN 46373  Phone: (219) 365-5678.
•  H. J. Alerding's, 1907, "History of St. John's Catholic Parish", transcribed :  "...St. John township, not only almost exclusively Catholic but also German has in it three churches:  One at St. John, the other at Dyer, and the third at Schererville.  St. John the Evangelist's Church, in St. John, is the mother church of all the other churches in Lake county..."
• St. Joseph Catholic Parish: [est. 1867] See Alerding's History of St. Joseph's Parish.
        
• 440 Joliet Street - Dyer, (Lake County), Indiana  46311   Phone: (219) 865-2271.
     H. J. Alerding's, 1907, "History of St. Josephs Catholic Parish", transcribed :
• St. Michael Parish
    1 W Wilhelm Street - Schererville, IN 46375   Phone: (219) 322-4505.
•  St. Maria Goretti Catholic Parish:
       500 Northgate Drive - Dyer (Lake County), Indiana  46311  Phone: (219) 865-8956.
• Historical Articles on the Development of the Lincoln Highway
• Town of Dyer, Indiana
• Dyer, Indiana
• History of Dyer, Indiana
• Schererville, Indiana
• Lake County Public Library - Dyer-Schererville Branch
   
• 1001 W. Lincoln Hwy. - Schererville, IN 46375-1552    Phone: (219) 322-4731.
  

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West Creek Township - Communities include:  Belshaw, North Hayden and Schneider.  The community of Creston is located on the West Creek-Cedar Creek township line.

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Winfield Township - Communities include:  Leroy, Palmer and Winfield.

• Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer.  First Edition, Second Printing.  Yarmouth, Maine:  Delorme.  1998.
• School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.