General Histories

General Histories


  • Ball, Timothy H., ed. Lake County, Indiana, 1884: An Account of the Semi-Centennial Celebration of Lake County… With Historical Papers and Other Interesting Records… Crown Point: the author, 1884.

  • Ball, Timothy H., ed. Lake County, Indiana, from 1834 to 1872. Chicago: J.W. Goodspeed, 1873.

  • Ball, Timothy H., ed. The Lake of the Red Cedars; or Will It Live? Thirty Years in Lake. Crown Point: the author, 1880.

  • Ball, Timothy H., ed. Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900, or, A View of Our Region Through the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, Printers, 1900.

  • Cannon, Thomas H., ed.; Loring, H.H. and Robb, Charles J. History of the Lake and Calumet Region of Indiana, Embracing the Counties of Lake Porter and La Porte: An Historical Account of Its People and Its Progress from the Earliest Times to the Present. Vol. 1, Historical. Vol. 2, Biographical. Indianapolis: The Historians’ Association, 1927.

  • Cavnes, Max Parvin. The Hoosier Community at War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961.

  • Cohen, Benjamin. “Lake County Before the Railroad Era,” Indiana Magazine of History 32(June, 1936):116.

  • Cummins, Cedric C. Indiana Public Opinion and the World War, 1914-17. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1945.

  • Drury, John. This is Lake County, Indiana: An Up-to-date Historical Narrative with County and Township Maps and Many Unique Aerial Photographs of Cities, towns Villages, and Farmsteads. Chicago: Inland Photo Co., 1956.

  • Goodspeed, Weston A. and Blanchard, Charles. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana. Chicago: F.A. Battey & Co., 1882.

  • Howat, William F., ed. A Standard History of Lake County Indiana, and the Calumet Region. 2 vols. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1915.

  • Lake County Historical Association; Bowers, John O.; Taylor, Arthur G.; and Woods, Sam B., eds. History of Lake County, 10 vols. Gary: Calumet Press, 1934.

  • Lake County Old Settler and Historical Association, Historical Records of the Old Settler and Historical Association of Lake County, Indiana, 1924. N.p., 1924.

  • Lake County Old Settler and Historical Association. Papers Read at the Meeting… August 28th 1907… for… the Seventieth Anniversary of the Permanent Settlement of Hanover Township. Hammond: Cleveland Printing Co., 1907.

  • Lake County Old Settler and Historical Association. Reports of the Historical Secretary of the Old Settler and Historical Association of Lake County, Indiana from 1896 to 1900. Crown Point, 1901.

  • Lake Count Old Settler and Historical Association. Reports of the Historical Secretary of the Old Settler and Historical Association of Lake County, Indiana, from 1901 to 1905. Crown Point, 1905.

  • Lake County Old Setter and Historical Association Reports of the Historical Secretary of the old Settler and Historical Association of Lake County, Indiana, from 1906 to 1910. Crown Point, 1911.

  • Historical Association of Lake County, Indiana; Brown, Mrs. Joseph E.’ Vanderlaan, Mrs. William; Kenney, Mrs. Cordie; Tribbey, Mrs. Henry; and Haney, Mrs. Thomas, eds. Reports and Papers, vol. 12. Greenfield, IN: Mitchell-Fleming Printing, 1970.

  • Moore, Powell A. The Calumet Region, Indiana’s Last Frontier. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1959. Reprinted, 1977, with an Afterword, “The Calumet Region, 1933-1977,” by Lance Trusty.

  • Old Settler and Historical Association of Indiana. Publications. 3 vols. Crown Point, 1893.

  • Old Settler and Historical Association of Lake County; The Lake County Historical Society; Demmon Alice M.; Little, Jesse; McNay, Phillip M.; and Taylor, Arthur G., eds. History of Lake County, vol. 11. Crown Point: Lake County Star Press, 1934.

  • Pictorial and Biographical Record of La Porte, Porter, Lake and Starke Counties, Indiana. Chicago: Goodspeed Bros., 1894.

  • U.S., Federal Writers’ Program. Calumet Region Historical Guide. East Chicago, 1939.