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Porter County Elections – Then and Now
Written by Victoria Vasquez | October 3, 2024 Election Day is Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Porter County held its first elections on February 23, 1836. The county did not have vote centers or polling locations like we have today. Porter County residents voted for their first governing officials using paper ballots and tally sheets. Residents…
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Aviation Sabotage! The Bombing of Boeing 247 Flight No. 23
United Airlines disclosed that the pilots had radioed minutes before the explosion that “all was well.” Little did they know their fate was about to change.
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Tragic Railroad Accidents in Porter County
Although the railways were built with the utmost purpose and intentions of accommodating settlers with goods of commerce and provisional stability, the industrial innovation of locomotive transportation did come at a hefty price, and sometimes that price was the cost of a life.
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The Murder of William R. Tratebas
Written by Victoria Vasquez | May 23, 2024 Blacksmith Shop Brawl Brings Bullets Blazing The blasting sounds of gun shots disturbed the morning silence at the Trudell & Shaner’s blacksmith shop located in the small town of Chesterton, Indiana. On August 15, 1895, 2 men walked into a tension filled room. The shop owner, Mr.…
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Railroads: The Cost of a Modern Day Nation
Written by Victoria Vasquez | April 23, 2024 Leading for Change On June 6, 1883 about 2 miles outside of Seymore, Indiana tragedy struck. A fast express train caught in a massive rainstorm traveling from Chicago faced a washout as it screeched over a top soiled track caused by erosion. It was traveling at 45…
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Go West Young Man: Indiana and the California Gold Rush
Written by Victoria Vasquez | March 7, 2024 There’s Gold in Them Thar’ Hills The news of gold in California brought over 300,000 people to the west coast from around the world and across the United States. San Francisco, California was a hot spot in 1842 being a settlement of 200 people to a boomtown…
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Road Trip to Indiana State Archives
Written by Victoria Vasquez | December 15, 2023 Preserving the Past: Clerk Archives Team Visits Indiana State Archives The Porter County Clerk Archives team visited the Indiana State Archives on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 for a conservation training workshop to learn about record preservation. Attending the workshop was Victoria Vasquez, Archives Coordinator, Linda Novotny and…
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From Farm Boy to Physician: Dr. Joseph C. Carson
Written by Victoria Gresham | November 20, 2023 Dr. Joseph C. Carson Nestled in the chronicles of time are the lives of those who once walked our streets of Porter County. One such public servant was Dr. Joseph C. Carson, once a farm boy who became an upstanding physician within his community. Dr. Joseph C.…
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Tribute to William Carmichael
Written by Victoria Gresham | October 23, 2023 Porter County’s Prominent Public Servant Thousand of records are processed through the Porter County Clerk Archives that at times there will be a name that comes across our desk that gives us a moment of pause. Sometimes, its a peculiar name entwined in a narrative, other times…
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The Porter County Peacemakers
Written by Victoria Gresham | September 25, 2023 Women Serving as Justice of the Peace Beginning in 1820 during the State of Indiana’s earliest settlement, Justices of the Peace (JPs) were constitutional officers who served five-year terms as part-time magistrates. Each township in Indiana elected a Justice of the Peace, who did not have to…
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