BlockCenter Township
The complete chapter on this township from A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, published 1915. 66 words, covering 6 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
6 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Point | 1 | 19 | 1 | - |
| Gentle Manor Estates | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Hawthorne Hills | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Liberty Park | - | - | 1 | - |
| Shady Lawn | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Wald View | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Settlements in this township
6 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 6 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
66 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, published 1915. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Center Township
Partners - Neighborhood Extends Southward - The Knickerbockers AND Westbrook Family - The Dilles and Warriners - Eastern Settlement Grows - Education and Religion - The McCartys and West Point - Lewis Warringer and Family - West Point Abandoned - Graytown Also a Failure - Commencement of THE "Resort" Business - Young America Is Launched - Other Improvements - Richard Fancher and the Fair Grounds 144
Provenance
Text from A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, published 1915, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.