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Valparaiso, the county seat, is located ou the N. Y. C. & St. L., C. & G. T. and P., Ft. W. & C. railroads, and is counected by an electric line with the cities on Lake Michigan. It has three banks, oue trust company, two newspapers, three public and one parochial school building, eight churches, and all the modern city improvements.
Valparaiso is the seat of Valparaiso University, founded September 16, 1873, which now enjoys an international reputation. It started out with one building, three instructors and 35 students and now has 11 buildings and a corps of 216 instructors, and enrolls over 6,000 students annually.
The other incorporated towns in the county are Chesterton, Hebron and Porter, but only the first named has a population of more than a thousand. An interesting feature of the county is the large number of railroads running across the county toward Chicago, no less than 11 east and west trunk lines being found in the county. More than a score of small villages are found on the several roads in the county, the chief ones being Koutz, Boone Grove, Hurlburt, Winslow, Sedley, Wheeler, Babcock, Thelma, Woodville, Burdick, Crocker, Furness- ville, Coburg, Favorites, McCool, Liberty View, Doran, Morris, Beatrice, Ayles- worth, Clanricarde, Burks, Crisman, Ackerman and Grassmere.
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Lake county, deriving its name from its location on the shores of Lake Michi- gan, was organized January 18, 1837, with its first seat of justice at the house of Solon Robinson, the most prominent of the first settlers, the county seat being designated as "Lake County Court House," usually abbreviated to "Lake C. H." The county is of a low, swampy character, and a considerable amount of its land area of 314,880 acres has had to be drained before it was suitable for cultiva- tion. Wheu drained it becomes fine farming land, and today thousands of acres tre devoted to truck farming. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $73,925,935. It has 121 schools, 551 teachers and 18,081 pupils. The county has 31 banks. No county in the state, and probably none iu the United States, has had such a rapid growth during the past teu years. In 1840 the county had a popula- tion of 1.468 and in 1860 it was only 9,145. In 1900 it had increased to 37,892, but by 1910 it had leaped to S2,864, and it was estimated at 100,000 in 1916. This phenomenal growth has been due to the location of steel mills and other indus- tries at Gary aud other cities on Lake Michigan. Gary was laid out in 1906 and by 1910 had grown to a city of 16,802, with an estimated population in 1916 of 36,000.
Crown Point, the county seat, was laid out on the site of the original court house, and is a city of 3,000. It is located on the P., C., C. & St. L. and C. & E. I. railroads, and the Gary & S. traction line. It has three banks, two newspapers, electric light and water works systems aud paved streets.
Gary in many respects is the most remarkable city in the United States. Laid out on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan in 1906 it was literally made to order, and owes. its wonderful growth primarily to the steel industry. It is reached by the B. & O., E. J. & E, N. Y. C., M. C., Ind. Harbor Belt, Pennsylvania, and Wabash railroads. The chief industry is the manufacture of iron and steel products. The city has seven banks, two newspapers and all the improvements of the modern city.
Other incorporated cities and towns are Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting, Griffith, Lowell, Aetna, East Gary, Hobart, Miller, New Chicago, Highland, Mun- ster and Dyer. The cities on the lake are important manufacturing centers and all are rapidly increasing in population. Other villages in the county are Shelby, Illinoi, Orchard Grove, Range Line, North Hayden, Diuwiddie. Creston, Paisley, Cedar Lake, Cook, Leroy, Palmer, Winfield, Deepriver. Ainsworth, St. John, Schererville, Griffith, Merrillville, Lottaville, Glen Park, Ross, Highland, Liverpool, Black Oak, Calumet City, Miller, Hartsdale, Maynard, Munster, Saxony Hessville, Vanloon. Grassell, Toleston, Indiana Harbor, Edgemore, Pine, Clarke Station, Klassville, Beechridge, Schneider and North Haven.
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Starke county, named in honor of John Starke, the hero of the battle of Bennington in the Revolutionary War, was organized January 15, 1850, with its county seat at Knox. Its 195,200 acres fall within the Kankakee river basin, and much of the county has had to be drained before it could be tilled. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $8,529,415. It has 56 schools, 98 teachers and 2,857 pupils. There are four banks. The population of the county in 1850 was only 557, but by 1860 it had increased to 2,195. It has shown a steady increase each decade since that year, the 1910 census returning a popula- tion of 10,567.
Knox, the county seat, is situated in the center of the county and has a population of 1,700. It is on the N. Y. C. & St. L. and C. I. & S. railroads, 30 miles southwest of South Bend. It has two banks, two newspapers, five churches, electric lights, water works, sewage system and paved streets.
The other incorporated towns are North Judson and Hamlet. North Judson, a town of 1,500, is at the junction of the N. Y. C., Erie, Pennsylvania and C. & O. railroads, 12 miles southwest of Knox, the county seat. It has a bank, news- paper, two churches and three school buildings.
There are seven railroads running across the county and a number of small villages are found on the roads. Among them may be mentioned Davis, Grover- town, Ober, Bass, English Lake, Toto, Lomax, Kankakee, Lake Park, Ora, San Pierre, Alldine and Brems. A number of summer resorts are found in the county.
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Marshall county, named in honor of Chief Justice John Marshall, was organized February 4, 1836, with its couuty seat at Plymouth. It is located in the uorth cen- tral part of the state and falls within the lake region. Cousequently, there is con- siderable of its 282,240 acres which has had to be drained before it was fit for cultivation. The assessed valuation of the couuty in 1914 was $19,000,430. It has 123 schools, 191 teachers and 5,484 pupils. The county has 11 banks. The county had a population of 12,722 in 1860 and in 1910 it had 24,715 inhabitants. The county reached its greatest population in 1900, when it had 25,119 inhabitants.
Plymouth. the county seat, is in the center of the county and is reached by the L. E. & W., Vandalia aud Pennsylvania railroads. It has three bauks, two news- papers, fine school buildings, twelve churches and a public library. It has a num- ber of manufacturing plants, its chief products being bench, floor and surface grinders, emery wheel dressers, disc and tool grinders, baskets, electrical supplies, cigars and dairy products.
The other incorporated towns in the county are Bremeu, Bourbon, Argos and Culver. The first three are thriving towns of over a thousand, Bremen having a population of more than two thousand. Culver, located on Lake Maxinkuckee, is the seat of Culver Military Academy, which has a national reputation for the excellence of its work. Lake Maxinkuckee is one of the most famous summer resorts in the state and attracts thousands of visitors annually. There are sev- eral other lakes in the county which have become noted as summer resorts during the past few years.
The unincorporated towns aud villages in the county include Lapaz, Teegar- den. Tyner, Donaldson, Rutland, Hibbard, Linkville, Twin Lake, Inwood, Walnut, Burr Oak and Tippecanoe.
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Kosciusko county, named in honor of Kosciusko, the Polish officer of the Revolutionary War, was organized December 21, 1822. The county is in the lake region of northern Indiana and much of the 346,240 acres constituting the land area of the county has to be drained before it can be brought under cultivation. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $24,093,095. It has 122 schools, 214 teachers and 6,213 pupils. The county has 15 banks. The county had a popu- lation of 17,418 in 1860 and 27,936 in 1910, reaching its greatest population in 1900 when it had 29,109 inhabitants.
Warsaw, the county seat, is on the Big Four and Pennsylvania railroads and the Winona interurban line, which gives it electric connection with Indianapolis and South Bend. It has an estimated population of 5,500, au increase of about 1,000 since 1910. The city has three banks, two daily and two weekly newspapers, four public school buildings and nine churches. The city has all the modern city improvements and has made a very rapid growth in the past few years. At Winona Lake, two miles distant, is found the largest chautauqua in the middle west. At this place is located Winona College, a non-sectarian school, which has been in operation only a few years, but already recognized for the high quality of its instruction. Indiana University maintains a summer biological station at Winona Lake, which is patronized by students of the leading colleges in the coun- try. Warsaw is an important manufacturing center, having two flour mills, two saw and planing mills, two grain elevators, two foundries, several machine shops, overall factory and cut glass factory.
The other incorporated towns are Syracuse, Pierceton, Milford, Claypool, Lees- burg, Mentone, Etna Green and Silver Lake. Of these towns Syracuse, with a population of about 1,500, is the largest. It is the center of the cement industry in the state.
The villages in the county include Shakespeare, Webster, Vawter's Park, Burkett, Sevastopol, Wooster, Wawasee, Atwood, Packerton, Sidney, Kinney and Oswego. Wawasee is one of the most famous summer resorts of the state, and several other lakes in the county have a number of cottages around them occupied only in the summer. It has been estimated that half a million people visit the various resorts in Kosciusko county every summer.
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Noble county, named in honor of Governor Noah Noble, was organized Janu- ary 23, 1836, with its first county seat at Sparta, now known as Kimmell. The county falls within the lake region of northeastern Indiana, and originally a con- siderable part of its 266,880 acres was too swampy for successful farming. How- ever, during the past three decades most of the county has been drained, and now there is only a small portion of the land area which can not be tilled. The assessed valuation of the county in 1914 was $19,613,000. It has 87 schools, 172 teachers and 4,564 pupils. There are eleven banks. The population of the county in 1860 was 14,915, and each decade since that year has shown an increase, the 1910 census returning a population of 24,009.
Noble county experienced considerable difficulty in getting its county seat permanently located. Sparta, the first site, lost the honor to Augusta in 1837, but when the court house was burned, March 25, 1843, efforts were at once made to secure a relocation. Port Mitchell was chosen after a spirited fight, but two years later an election was held for the purpose of choosing another site. Votes were cast for Port Mitchell, Augusta, Center, Rochester, Ligonier, Springfield. Lisbon, Northport and Wolf Lake. Center won the fight, and the following year the name of the county seat was changed to Albion-and it seems that the question is now permanently settled.
Albion, a town of 1,300, is located on the B. & O. railroad, thirty-two miles northwest of Ft. Wayne. It has two banks, two newspapers, six churches and a number of small industries. The other incorporated towns in the county are Kendallville. Ligonier, Avilla, Wolcottville and Cromwell. Kendallville, with a population of 6,000, is the largest town in the county. It is on the G. R. & I. and N. Y. C. railroads, and is connected by an electric line with Ft. Wayne. It has three banks, two newspapers, and all the improvements of the modern city. Its manufactured products include refrigerators, pumps, windmills, furniture, tanks, caskets, buggies and flour.
The unincorporated villages in the county include Rome City, Wawaka, Kim- mell, Lisbon, Swan, Brimfield. Wilmot, Green Center, Merriam, Laotto, Cosperville and Strouse. Rome City is one of the most famous summer resorts of the state, and is the home of Gene Stratton-Porter, one of Indiana's greatest novelists.
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Dekalb couuty, uamed in honor of Baron John Dekalb, a hero of the Revolu- tiouary War, was organized February 2, 1837. The land area of the county is 236,800 acres aud most of the county is a level plain, swampy in many places, but easily drained. Its assessed valuation iu 1914 was $18,186,430. There are 104 schools, 174 teachers and 5,171 pupils. The county has 11 banks. Its population, unlike that of a great majority of the counties of the state, showed very little de- crease from 1900 to 1910, when it showed 25,054 residents in the county.
Auburn is the county seat, although Garrett is the larger city. Auburn had a population of 3,919 in 1910, but has grown rapidly since that time and now has an estimated population of 5,500. The city is on the line of three railroads: L. S. & M. S., Vandalia and B. & O. It is also connected with Ft. Wayne by au electric line. The city has three banks, four newspapers, three theaters, churches repre- seuting the leading denominations, excellent public schools, one of the finest court houses in the state, Y. M. C. A. building, public library and a public park. Among the industries may be mentioned the manufacture of automobiles, carriages and buggies, ice cream, cigars and postcards. The city has paved streets, electric lights and water works.
Garrett, the largest city in the county, is five miles west of Auburn on the B. & O. railroad. It is essentially a railroad town, being a division point on the B. & O., and the shops of the company employ several hundred men in the city. It has paved streets, electric lights, water works, city hall, public library, two banks, weekly newspaper and good schools and churches.
Butler, the third largest town in the county, has a population of about 2,500. It is on the N. Y. C., Wabash and Vandalia railroads, twelve miles northeast of the county seat and 170 miles east of Chicago. It has two banks and two news- papers.
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Allen county was organized December 17, 1823, and was uamed in honor of Col. John Allen. It was the first county organized which included territory uorth of the Wabash river, its early organizatiou being due to the fact that its county seat, Ft. Wayne, was au important trading point from the earliest history of the state. The county is drained hy tbe Maumee river, which is formed by the con- flueuce of the St. Joseph and St. Mary's rivers near the center of the county. The total area of the county is 423,040 acres and a large extent of this may be termed river hottom land. Most of this is now drained and iu cultivation, although there is yet some land which needs to be drained before it cau be cultivated. Its assessed valuatiou in 1914 was $64,336,520. The county has 190 schools, employs 424 teachers and eurolls 13,291 pupils in the public schools. The banks of the county number 20.
Fort Wayne, the third largest city in the state, is au important railroad center, no less than six trunk lines running through the city, while it is the western terminus of another road, the C. H. & D. The trunk lines are the P., Ft. W. & C., the Wabash, N. Y. C. & St. L. (Nickle Plate), New York Central lines, G. R. & I. and 1 .. E. & W. Electric lines ruu to Lima, Ohio, on the east, to Decatur on the southeast, to Muncie on the soutb, to Logansport on the west, and to Auburu on the north. The city itself has its own street car system, which furnishes excellent service. The city owns a number of parks, its electric light plant and waterworks system. Education is amply provided for with a fine public school system, a number of parochial schools, business colleges aud one church college, Concordia, oue of tbe largest Lutherau colleges in the United States. The state School for Feeble-minded Youth is now located near the city. It was opened in 1879, first as an adjunct to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Knightstown. From May 1, 1887, to July 8, 1890, the children were kept at the Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Richmond, and on the latter date the present institution at Ft. Wayue was opened for their reception. There are over fifty churches in the city, several daily and weekly newspapers, one of the finest public markets in the state and many other huildings of a public nature which attract atteution. Among the fine buildings should be mentioned the Scottish Rite cathedral, country club home, city library and what is probably the finest court house in the state.
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