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Indiana Bicentennial Celebration 2016
Lake County
Q&A with County Coordinator Larry Blanchard
What do you consider the key accomplishment(s) of your county’s bicentennial celebration?
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Pulling off the Torch Relay without a hitch.
What Legacy Project do you most like to tell people about, and why?
- Purdue Extension & Soil & Water Conservation new facilities.
Describe a highlight or most memorable moment related to your county's bicentennial celebration.
- The two-day Torch Relay.
How/where are you preserving information and artifacts related to your county's celebration?
- The Government Center in Crown Point and South Shore C.V.A.
Total number of volunteers who participated.
- 75.
Estimated total attendance.
- 400.
Estimated dollar amount spent.
- $5,000.
Lake County Legacy Projects
- 200 Years Along the South Shore
- Beaver Dam Ditch – Bicentennial Nature Trust
- Bicentennial Ambulance
- Celebrate the Bicentennial at the Whiting Public Library
- City 1st Annual Art Festival
- City of Whiting 97th Annual July 4th Parade
- Covered Bridge Bicentennial Garden
- Deep River County Park – Bicentennial Nature Trust
- Deep River Park – Bicentennial Nature Trust
- DOC 200 (Demonstrating Outstanding Citizenship 200 Times)
- Digitization of the Times of Northwest Indiana microfilm archives
- Everglades of the North: The Story of the Grand Kankakee Marsh
- Gold Star Families Memorial
- Happy Hoosier Bicentennial Presentation
- Hobart Chamber of Commerce 4th of July Parade
- Indiana’s Bicentennial Shingle (A Silhouette of the State, Celebrating its 200th Anniversary)
- Indiana's First US Flag Display Legacy Project
- It's Indiana's Bicentennial! 200 Fun Facts About Crown Point to Celebrate
- Jeff Manes—Syndicated Columnist and Author Visit
- Jerry Pavese Park Addition - Bicentennial Nature Trust
- Lake County Celebrates: Indiana’s Bicentennial
- Lake County Giant Map & Timeline
- Lake County Purchase – Bicentennial Nature Trust
- Lincoln Highway Byway Signs
- Lincoln Highway Ideal Section Memorial Project
- Lowell Labor Day Parade
- Marquette Park – Bicentennial Nature Trust
- McCloskey's Burr Oak Savanna Nature Preserve Addition - Bicentennial Nature Trust
- Morton High School Promotes Its Next Indiana Bookshelf Collection
- Next Indiana Bookshelf in Lake County
- Oak Ridge Prairie Park – Bicentennial Nature Trust
- Purdue Extension/Soil & Water Conservation Project
- Revitalize the Town Theatre in Highland
- Riding the Rails of History: The Story of the South Shore Line
- "Sand & Steel: Visions of Our Indiana Shore" Art Exhibition
- Schneider’s Indiana Bicentennial Celebration
- Shifting Sands: A Path to Sustainability
- South Shore Summer Music Festival
- St. Patrick's Day Bicentennial Logo Contest
- The Octave Chanute Biplane Glider Dream Memorial: Where Dreams take Flight
- Veteran’s Memorial Parkway Purchase - Bicentennial Nature Trust
Photos from Lake County's Bicentennial Activities/Events
Lake County Facts
The county was named after its location along Lake Michigan. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore finds its home along Indiana’s 40-mile-long Lake Michigan shoreline — Lake County is one of three Indiana counties along the Great Lake.
About the courthouse: John Cochrane was the architect and the building was completed in 1879.
Paul Samuelson, born in Gary, Indiana, in 1915, won the Nobel Prize in economics, 1970.
In addition to railroad cars, the Pullman Standard Car Company was called upon to produce military arms and vehicles. The M-3 and M-4 Sherman tanks were built in south Hammond near 165th and Columbia. The company provided high paying jobs for the region and a great deal of patriotic pride and helped win World War II.
The corner window at Goldblatts, in Hammond, always presented the newest toys for the holiday season — as featured in Jean Shepherd’s Christmas Story. It is where Ralphie first saw the Red Ryder BB gun. Goldblatts always had electric trains on display.
In 1934 Chicago Gangster John Dillinger escaped the Lake Country jail in Crown Point by using a “pistol” he had carved from a wooden block.
County Seat: Crown Point
Year Organized: 1836
Square Miles: 498.96
