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1) Ogden Dunes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
"Ogden Dunes, incorporated in 1925, is the largest and most residential of the three Porter County lake-front communities established in the 1930s. Although it began as a highly restricted resort community with the largest man-made ski jump in North America, it became a middle-class residential community after 1945. Because of its proximity to Gary and Chicago, Ogden Dunes was also a battleground between the forces that wished to conserve the dunes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Esperanto
Description
"The town of Ogden Dunes was incorporated in 1925 as a lakefront community on the southern shore of Lake Michigan in Porter County, Indiana. ... Today it (the town) is virtually surrounded by the Indiana Dunes National Park. ...From 1930 until 1949 the lake level of Lake Michigan remained below its historic average of 579 feet above sea level. In 1952 this changed and Ogden Dunes had its first scare... As I (the author) and the Historical Society...
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