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The location of one of the most diverse national parks in the United States, Northwest Indiana's Calumet area is home to what was at one time widely known as the most polluted river in the entire country. Calumet's advantageous location at the southern tip of Lake Michigan encouraged broadscale conversion of Indiana wilderness into an industrial base that once included the world's largest steel mill, largest cement works, and largest oil refinery....
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Calumet regional studies volume 3
Calumet regional studies volume 03
Duh Reejin a workaday mythology volume 1
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Calumet regional studies volume 03
Duh Reejin a workaday mythology volume 1
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[1996]
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"The first Dutch immigration to the Calumet Region took place in the second half of the 19th century. The area settled by the Dutch spans roughly from what today is part of Chicago's Southside to the western border of Griffith, Indiana, and includes the communities of Roseland, South Holland, Lansing, Munster, and Highland. Once in the region, the Dutch carved communities out of the wilderness by clearing and draining the land and raising large families;...
18) Steel shavings
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Stories about people, places, and events in Northwest Indiana.
19) Family life in the Calumet region: social trends and racial tensions during the nineteen sixties
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1996
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English
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