Porter County, Indiana: Remembering And Moving Forward - OpenSIPS Trunking Solutions

History of porter county, indiana.

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The protected natural area subzone was the blue heron rookery where human intrusion was to be kept to a minimum for the sake of the resource and involved 320 acres, or 2. 4 percent of the park.

The heron rookery is located along the east arm of the little calumet river in the southern portion of pike township in porter county, indiana.

As porter county and northwest indiana developed, old indian migration trails were transformed into roadways.

Such roads as indiana state road 2, u. s.

Route 12 (dunes highway), and u. s.

Route 30 now traverse a substantial portion of these indian trails.

Several burial grounds in porter county were abandoned early in the county's history.

Graves in these cemeteries were either disinterred and placed elsewhere or the burials and their markers were simply obliterated over time if not removed from the site.

The illustrated historical atlas of porter county, indiana was written just prior to explosion of county histories that began to appear across the united states from 1880 to approximately 1915.