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Actors: SEE Baxter, Anne; Dean, James; Keith, Jane
African Americans SEE ALSO personal names: Dunlap family; Hatcher, Richard (Mayor); Jones, King S. (Dr.); Sanders, Mayme; Westcott, Charles R.
Agriculture
Airplanes & Airport
Alewives SEE ALSO Fish & Wildlife
All-American City Award SEE Awards
Allis-Chalmers
American Indians SEE Indians of North America
Amphitheater SEE Music & Musicians, Washington Park
Animal Shelters
Archaeology SEE Historic Sites; Housing; Library – 4th Street Building; Keneflick, William K.; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Wright, John Lloyd
Art & Artists SEE ALSO Grafton, Robert; Naguib, Mustafa; Noguchi, Isumu; Warren, Karl B.
Art Center
Audubon SEE Birds of Indiana
Authors SEE ALSO Petrakis, Harry Mark; Riley, James Whitcomb; Stratton-Porter, Dorothy
Automobiles SEE ALSO Roads, Streets & Highways
Awards
Bailly Homestead
Bailly Generating Station SEE ALSO NIPSCO
Bandstand SEE Music & Musicians; Washington Park
Banks
Barker Mansion SEE ALSO Barker, Catherine; Barker, John H.
Baseball SEE ALSO White Caps
Basketball
Battle of Trail Creek
Beach & Lakefront SEE Erosion, Lakefront; Great Lakes; Harbor & Marina
Beverly Shores, IN
Bicentennials SEE ALSO Centennials, Sesquicentennials
Biographical Files SEE Personal Name FIles
Birds SEE ALSO Fish & Wildlife
Blank, John G., Center for the Arts SEE Art Center
Blue Chip Casino SEE Gambling & Casinos
Boat Races & Shows SEE ALSO Pan American Games
Boxing SEE ALSO Sky Blue Arena
Bridges SEE ALSO Covered Bridges
Burns Harbor
Businesses & Companies SEE ALSO Chamber of Commerce; Labor; business names e.g. South Shore Railroad; business types e.g. Banks
Cable Television SEE ALSO Radio & Television Stations
CAGIT SEE Taxes
Canada Neighborhood SEE Gambling & Casinos; Housing; Michigan City History
Canals
Capital Punishment SEE Prisons & Prisoners
Cargill Elevator
Catwalk SEE ALSO Old Lighthouse Museum
Cemeteries SEE ALSO Churches and Synagogues; Military Monuments
Centennials SEE ALSO Bicentennials; Sesquicentennials
Chamber of Commerce
Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad SEE South Shore Railroad
Churches & Synagogues SEE ALSO Clergy; Cemeteries
City Hall SEE Michigan City Government
Civil War
Clinton Visit – 1996 SEE Clinton, Bill (President) (personal name files)
Clergy SEE ALSO Churches & Synagogues
Climate SEE Weather & Climate
Clubs SEE Organizations
Coal SEE Geology
Coast Guard SEE ALSO Harbor & Marina; Ships & Shipwrecks
Coastal Zone Management Program
Commerce Square
Community Center for the Arts SEE Art Center
Constitution (State) SEE Indiana History
County Line Road SEE Roads, Streets and Highways
Covered Bridges
Crime & Crime Prevention SEE Police & Policing; Prisons & Prisoners; Westside Improvement Group; personal names, e.g. Gunness, Belle
Daughters of the American Revolution
Doctors SEE ALSO Hospitals
Dunes SEE Burns Harbor; Erosion, Lakefront; Harbor & Marina; Hoosier Slide; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Mount Baldy
Earthquakes
Eastport neighborhood SEE Housing
Enterprise Zone
Erosion, Lakefront
Fires & Firefighters SEE ALSO locations, e.g. Pullman Plant
Fish & Wildlife SEE ALSO Birds
Football SEE Sports
Forests & Trees SEE ALSO Indiana – State Parks & Forests
Franklin Square
Fried’s Cat Shelter SEE Animal Shelters
Friendship Gardens
Gary, IN SEE ALSO Hatcher, Richard (Mayor)
Geology
Golf Courses
Great Lakes SEE ALSO Burns Harbor; Erosion, Lakefront; Harbor & Marina; Ships & Shipwrecks
Harbor & Marina SEE ALSO Burns Harbor; Indiana Dunes; Washington Park
Harborside Homes
Haskell & Barker SEE Pullman Plant
Hauntings
Hesston Steam Museum
Highways SEE Roads, Streets and Highways
Historic Districts SEE ALSO Franklin Square
Historic Sites
Historical Societies SEE Bass, Arnold; Indiana Historical Society, LaPorte County, IN; Michigan City Historical Society; Schultz, Fern Eddy
History SEE Indiana History; LaPorte COunty CETA History Project; Michigan City History; Settlers
Hoosier
Hoosier Slide
Hospitals SEE ALSO Doctors
Hotels
Housing SEE ALSO Harborside Homes; specific locations e.g. Beverly Shores
Human Rights Commission SEE Michigan City Government – Human Rights Commission
Humane Society SEE Animal Shelters
Hutchinson Fountain SEE Historic Sites
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore SEE ALSO Mount Baldy
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana History
Indiana – State Capitol
Indiana – State Emblems and Flag
Indiana – State Parks & Forests SEE ALSO Parks; Forests & Trees
Indiana State Prison SEE Prisons & Prisoners
Indians of North America SEE ALSO Potawatomie Indians
Inter-Urban SEE South Shore Railroad
Inventions & Inventors
Islam
Journalists SEE Authors; Newspapers
Ku Klux Klan
Labor SEE Businesses & Companies; Organizations
Lake Michigan SEE Erosion, Lakefront; Great Lakes; Harbor & Marina
Lakefront SEE Erosion, Lakefront; Harbor & Marina; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Washington Park
Lakeland Neighborhood SEE Housing; Water Supply
Landfill
LaPorte County, IN
LaPorte County Historical Steam Society SEE Hesston Steam Museum
LaPorte County CETA History Project
La Salle Expedition
League of Women Voters
Library
Library – 4th Street Building
Library – Mall Branch
Library – Medical
Library – Original Building
Library – Staff
Lighthouse SEE Catwalk; Old Lighthouse Museum
Lighthouse Place SEE Outlet Mall
Limestone SEE Geology
Lubeznik Center for the Arts SEE Art Center
Martin Luther King Center
Mayors
Michiana Humane Society SEE Animal Shelters
Michiana Industries
Michigan Boulevard area
Michigan City Government
Michigan City Historical Society SEE ALSO Old Lighthouse Museum
Michigan City History SEE ALSO Historic Sites; Indiana History; LaPorte County CETA History Project; Settlers; specific subject headings e.g. Military Monuments; personal names e.g. Barker, John H.
Military Monuments SEE ALSO Cemeteries; Bruce, Daniel (PFC)
Millennium Riverwalk Park SEE Harbor & Marina
Mills
Miss Duneland Pageant
Moon Valley
Mount Baldy SEE ALSO Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Movie Theaters SEE Theaters, Movie
Murders SEE Ku Klux Klan; Prisons & Prisoners; personal names e.g. Gunness, Belle; Rison
Museums SEE ALSO Art Center; Hesston Steam Museum; Old Lighthouse Museum
Music & Musicians SEE ALSO Actors; personal names e.g. Drake, Gene; Nelson, William J.; Wiegand Elizabeth Grieger
Naval Armory SEE Washington Park
News-Dispatch SEE Newspapers
Newspapers & Journalists SEE ALSO Authors; Jurney, Dorothy Misener; Pyle, Ernie
NIPSCO SEE ALSO Bailly Plant
Oasis Ballroom SEE Washington Park
Oil SEE Geology
Old Lighthouse Museum SEE ALSO Catwalk
Organizations SEE ALSO Businesses & Companies
Outlet Mall
PACT (Prisoner and Community Together)
Pan American Games
Parks SEE ALSO Indiana – State Parks and Forests; Washington Park
The Patch Neighborhood SEE Harborside Homes
Planning – 1926 SEE Michigan City Government
Poetry – Local
Police & Policing SEE ALSO Prisons & Prisoners
Port of Indiana SEE Burns Harbor
Post Office
Pottawattamie Indians SEE ALSO Indians of North America
Pottawattamie Park neighborhood SEE Housing
Prisons & Prisoners SEE ALSO PACT
Pullman Plant
Purdue Northwest (Purdue North Central)
Rabbis SEE CLergy; Churches & Synagogues
Radio & Television Stations SEE ALSO Cable Television
Railroads SEE ALSO South Shore Railroad
Revolutionary War SEE Battle of Trail Cree; Daughters of the American Revolution; Military Monuments
Riots – 1970 SEE Michigan City History
Roads, Streets & Highways SEE ALSO Automobiles; Bridges
Sand Mining SEE Geology; Hoosier Slide
Schools
Schools – Elston High School
Schools – History
Schools – La Lumiere
Schools – Michigan City High School
Schools – Parochial
Schools – Rogers High School
Senators SEE Bayh, Birch; Quayle, Dan
Senior Center
Sesquicentennials SEE ALSO Bicentennials; Centennials; Indiana History; Michigan City History
Settlers SEE ALSO Indiana History; Michigan City History; personal names e.g. Bigelow, Abijah
Sheltered Workshop (LaPorte County) SEE Michiana Industries
Sheridan Beach neighborhood SEE Housing
Ships & Shipwrecks SEE ALSO Coast Guard; Harbor & Marina
Sinai Forum
Sky Blue Arena (Boxing)
Smoot-Walker Feud
South Shore Railroad SEE ALSO Railroads
Sports SEE ALSO Baseball; Basketball; Boxing; Pan Am Games; personal names e.g. Higdon, Hal
Stamps SEE Post Office
State Capitol SEE Indiana – State Capitol
State Emblem, Flag, Seal SEE Indiana – State Emblems and Flag
Streets SEE Roads, Street & Highways
Swanson Center
Synagogues SEE Churches & Synagogues
Telephone & Telegraph
Television SEE Cable Television; Radio & Television Stations
Theaters, Community
Theatres, Movie
Tornadoes SEE ALSO Weather – Storms
Trail Creek, IN SEE ALSO Battle of Trail Creek; Bridges; Harbor & Marina; Watter Supply
Trees SEE Forests & Trees
Trolley to the Dunes SEE Railroads
Underground Railroad
United Telephone Co. of Indiana SEE Telephone & Telegraph
Washington Park SEE ALSO Harbor & Marina
Water Supply
Weather & Climate SEE ALSO Erosion, Lakeshore; Tornadoes
Weather – Storms SEE ALSO Tornadoes
West Side Improvement Group
White Caps (baseball)
World War I
World War II
WPA
Zoo SEE Washington Park Zoo

Biographical Files (Personal Names):

Ames, George
Appleseed, Johnny
Barker, Catherine & Margery
Barker, John
Baxter, Anne
Bayh, Birch
Bendix, Vincent
Bigelow, Abijah
Bowen, Otis R. (Governor)
Bowser, Anita
Boyd, William
Bramble, Maggie
Brown, Annie, “Ma”
Bruce, Daniel, PFC
Clark, George Rogers
Clinton, Bill (President)
Colfax family (Harriet E. Colfax, Harriet R. Colfax, John Colfax, Rose Hartwell Colfax, Ann C. Hartwell, John B. Sherman, Mason G. Sherman, Harriet Sherman Van Pelt)
Dean, James
Debs, Eugene V.
Diana of the Dunes (Alice Gray)
Drake, Gene
Dunlap, Sel, and Family
Eddy, Captain William C.
Elston, Isaac C.
Finley, Charlie O.
Grafton, Robert
Greenbaum, Walter K.
Grissom, Virgil
Gunness, Belle
Harrison, Benjamin and William
Hatcher, Richard (Mayor)
Heisman, Henry “Dad”
Herbert, Hugo
Hesburgh, Theodore (Reverend)
Higdon, Hal
Hiler, John (Representative)
Hopkins, Ann
Jones, King S. (Dr.)
Joseph, Michael
Jurney, Dorothy Misener
Keith, Jane (Keithley)
Kenefick, William
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kitchell, Edna P.
Lilienthal, David
Lincoln, Abraham
Lyons, Lawrence James
MacAlvay, Nora
Marquette, Jacques (Father)
Miller, Harry B.
Miller, John Franklin
Moyer, John W.
Munger, Elizabeth Banks
Naguib, Mustafa
Nelson, William J. (Billy)
Nicewarner, Gladys Bull
Noguchi, Isamu
Orr, Joseph C.
Petrakis, Harry Mark
Pizarek, Edward, and family
Porter, Gene Stratton SEE Stratton-Porter, Gene
Pyle, Ernie
Pytynia, Mike
Quayle, Dan
Raisor, Dr. Robert (SEE Smoot-Walker Feud)
Replogle, Albert (fishing lures)
Rison, Rayna
Roberts, John Jr.
Roeske Family
Rubinelli, Andrea
Rumely Family
Sanders, Mayme
Scholl, Dr. William
Schultz, Fern Eddy
Sherman, John B., and Sherman, Mason G. SEE Colfax family
Smith, A.K.
Stern, Fred
Stratton-Porter, Gene
Van Pelt, Harriet Sherman SEE Colfax family
Warren, Karl
Wiegand, Elizabeth Grieger
Winski, Nate
Witte family
Wright, Frank Lloyd SEE ALSO Baxter, Anne
Wright, John Lloyd
Zmuda, Kathleen
Zorn, Philip

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