Water

Lake Michigan

  • Chicago Regional Port Commission. Interstate Port Handbook. Chicago, 1932.

  • Chicago Regional Port Commission. Report on the Creation of an Interstate Port Authority for the States of Illinois and Indiana. Chicago, 1933.

  • Great Lakes Basin Commission. Great Lakes Basin Programs, FY 75- FY 79. Ann Arbor, MI, 1975.

  • Great Lakes Basin Commission. Great Lakes Basin Programs, FY 76- FY 77. Ann Arbor, MI, 1976.

  • Indiana Department of Commerce, for Coastal Zone Management Program. Completion Report. Indianapolis, 1976.

  • Indiana Department of Natural Resources, for Coastal Zone Management Program. Inventory of Plans, Programs and Projects, Part I and Part II. Indianapolis, 1976.

  • Indiana State Planning Services Agency. “Coastal Resource Planning in Indiana.” Mimeographed. Indianapolis, 1979.

  • U.S., Federal Insurance Administration, for Little Calumet River Advisory Committee. Flood Hazard Area Maps: Lake and Porter Counties, Indiana/ Federal Insurance Administration. Brochure. Highland, 1974.


Kankakee River

  • Bartlett, Charles H. Tales of Kankakee Land. New York: E. Scribner’s Sons, 1904.

  • Campbell, John L. Report Upon the Improvement of the Kankakee River and the Drainage of the March Lands in Indiana. Indianapolis: W. B. Burford, State Printer, 1882.

  • Indiana Department of Natural Resources. “Report of on Water and Related Land Resources Kankakee River Basin, Indiana.” Mimeographed. Indianapolis, 1976.

  • Meyer, Alfred H. “The Kankakee Marsh of Northern Indiana and Illinois,” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Papers 21 (1935):359.

  • Nichols, Fay Folsom. The Kankakee; Chronicle of an Indiana River and its Fabled Marshes. Brooklyn: T. Gaus’ Sons, 1965.

  • Reed, Earl H. Tales of a Vanishing River: The Kankakee. New York: John Lane Co., 1920.

  • Werich, J. Lorenzo. Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee. Logansport: Chronicle Printing Co., 1920.


Port of Indiana

  • Bartholomew, Harland, and Associates, for the State of Indiana, Board of Public Harbors and Terminals. Economic Survey for the Proposed Burns Harbor in Indiana. St. Louis, 1955.

  • Cort, Stewart S. “The Building of Burns’ Harbor,” Commerce 63 (February 1996):18.

  • Hartley, Joseph R. Traffic Flow Through the Port of Indiana. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1959.

  • Indiana Port Commission. Annual Report. N.p., 1966-.

  • Mayer, Harold M. The Port of Chicago and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Chicago: University of Chicago, Department of Geography, 1957.

  • Moshman Associates, Inc. The Great Lakes Port of North America. Ann Arbor, MI: Lestrang Publishing Co., 1973.

  • Mundinger, Donald C. “The Politics of Port Making,” Indiana Academy of Social Sciences Proceedings 4 (1961):99.

  • U.S., Public Health Service. Public Health Bulletin No. 170. Report of an Investigation of the Pollution of Lake Michigan in the Vicinity of South Chicago and the Calumet and Indiana Harbors. Washington, D.C., 1927.


Grand Calumet River

  • U.S., Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control. “Report on Pollution of the Waters of the Grand Calumet River, Little Calumet River, Calumet River, Lake Michigan, Wolf Lake and Their Tributaries.” Mimeographed. Chicago, 1965.

  • U.S., Department of the Interior, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. “Progress Evaluation Meeting in the Matter of the Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Grand Calumet River, Little Calumet River, Calumet River, Wolf Lake, Lake Michigan and Their Tributaries.” 3 vols. Mimeographed. Chicago, 1967.

  • U.S., House to Representatives. Examination of Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana, in Report of the Secretary of War. Washington, 1903.

  • U.S., House of Representatives, Committee on Public Works. Great Lakes Harbors Study-Second Interim Report on Calumet Harbor and River, Illinois and Indiana. Washington, 1960.


Little Calumet River

  • Ball, Timothy H. “The Cady Marsh,” Proceedings of Indiana Academy of Science 15 (1898):240.

  • Indiana Department of Natural Resources, for Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning commission. Regional Park Conceptual Development Plan for the Little Calumet River in Northwestern Indiana. Indianapolis, 1976.

  • Indiana Division of Outdoor Recreation. An Analysis of the Recreation Potential of the Little Calumet River Located in Lake and Porter Counties, Indiana. Indianapolis, 1975.

  • Lake Michigan Regional Planning Council. Little Calumet River Design Study. Chicago, 1968.

  • Lake Michigan Regional Planning Council. Little Calumet River Study: A Regional Planning and Flood Control Project. Chicago, 1968.

  • Little Calumet River Advisory Committee, for Lake-Porter County Regional Transportation and Planning Commission. “Report to the Governor, November 1, 1970.” Mimeographed. Crown Point, 1970.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission. Annual Report, 1972-.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission. Fact Sheet-Flood control and Recreation- Little Calumet River, Indiana. Highland, 1974.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission. Flood Insurance Programs: Special Flood Hazard Area Maps. Highland, 1976.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission. Planning in the Little Calumet River Basin, Indiana. Brochure. Highland, n.d.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission. Report on Flood and Storm Water. Highland, 1975.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission, Pollution Committee. Current State Activity in Water Quality Management. Highland, 1974.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission and Environmental Planning and Engineering, Inc. A Regional Park Conceptual Development Plan for the Little Calumet River. Highland, 1976.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission and U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, North Central Division. Flood Plan Information Deep River- Turkey Creek- Duck Creek, Lake County, Indiana. Highland, 1973.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission and U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, North Central Division. Floods on Deep River, Turkey Creek, and Duck Creek, Lake County, Indiana. Brochure. Highland, 1973.

  • Little Calumet River Basin Commission and U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, North Central Division. Floods on Hart Ditch, Cady Marsh Ditch, and Spring Street Ditch, Lake County, Indiana. Highland, 1974.

  • Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Planning Commission. “Flood Plain Information Report on the Little Calumet River and its Tributaries, Illinois and Indiana.” Mimeographed. Chicago, 1965.

  • Purdue Calumet Development Foundation. Value of Potential Development in the Little Calumet River Flood Plain. Hammond, 1964.

  • U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers. “Flood Plain Information Report on the Little Calumet River and Tributaries…” Mimeographed. Chicago, 1965.

  • U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers. Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement… on a Study… of the Little Calumet River Basin. Washington, D. C., 1973.

  • U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers. “Water Resources Fact Sheet, Little Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana.” Mimeographed. Chicago, 1971.

  • U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, for Little Calumet River Basin Commission. “Flood Plain Information, Hart Ditch- Cady Marsh Ditch- Sprig Street Ditch, Lake County, Indiana.” Mimeographed. Chicago, 1975.

  • U.S., Department of the Interior, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. “Progress Evaluation Meeting in the Matter of the Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Grand Calumet River, Little Calumet River, Calumet River, Wolf Lake, Lake Michigan and Their Tributaries.” 3 vols. Mimeographed. Chicago, 1967.

  • Indiana State Planning Services Agency, for Coastal Zone Management Program. Annual Report. Indianapolis, 1976.

  • Indiana State Planning Services Agency, for Coastal Zone Management Program. Esthetic Resource Assessment. Indianapolis, 1976.

  • Indiana State Planning Services Agency, for Coastal Zone Management Program. “Natural Resources Inventory.” Mimeographed. Indianapolis, 1976.

  • Komaiko, Jean R.; Barsy, Beverly H.; and Mackelmann, Ruth S. Around Lake Michigan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

  • Morton, E. P. Lake Michigan and the French Explorers. Chicago: Ainsworth & Co., 1914.

  • Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission, for Coastal Zone Management Program. Economic and Social Inventory. Highland, 1976.

  • Quaife, Milo M. Lake Michigan. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1944.

  • Pitz, H. Lake Michigan Disasters- A Record of the Greatest Ship Wrecks on Lake Michigan. Manitowoc, WI: Manitowoc Maritime Museum, 1925. Reprint Manitowoc WI: Manitowoc Maritime Museum, 1977.

  • Torrey, Marguerite, for the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration. Environmental Status of the Lake Michigan Region. Chemistry of the Lake, vol. 3. Madison: Argonne National Laboratory, 1976.

  • U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers. Interim Report on Indiana Shoreline Erosion, Detailed Feasibility Report. Chicago, 1975.

  • U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers. “Preliminary Interim Feasibility Report: Indiana Shoreline Erosion.” Mimeographed. Chicago, 1974.

  • U.S., Department of Interior, Federal Water Pollution Administration. “Conference Proceedings, Pollution of Lake Michigan and its Tributary Basin,” 5 vols. Mimeographed. Chicago, 1967.

  • U.S., Department of Interior, Federal Water Pollution Administration. “Progress Evaluation Meeting in the Matter of the Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Grand Calumet River, Little Calumet River, Calumet River, Wolf Lake, Lake Michigan and Their Tributaries.” 3 vols. Mimeographed. Chicago, 1967.

  • U.S., Department of the Interior, National Parks Service. Our Fourth Shore. Great Lakes Shoreline Recreation Area Survey. Washington, D. C., 1959.

  • U.S., Great Lakes Basin Commission, Geology and Ground Water Work Group. Geology and Ground Water. Ann Arbor, MI: Great Lakes Basin Commission, 1975.

  • U.S., House of Representatives. Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting Report of Major Benyaurd, Corps of Engineers, Relative to Changes in the Shoreline of the Harbor of Calumet, Ill. Washington, D.C., 1884.

  • Preston, Lawrence M. The Port of Indiana- Burns Waterway Harbor. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970.

  • Sverdrup-Parcel & Associates, for Indiana Port Commission. Burns Waterway Harbor: Stage I, Phase 1, Development Plan. St. Louis, 1965.

  • U.S., General Accounting Office. Environmental and Economic Problems Associated with the Development of the Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana. Report to Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971.

  • U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers. “Interim Report on Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana, 1960.” Chicago, 1960.

  • U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers. Interim Report on Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana, 1963. N.p., 1963.

Michigan City

  • Michigan City Lighthouse: Guardians of Lake Michigan (2001) Steven D. Elve

  • Old Lighthouse Museum News (1975-2010)

  • Logbooks of Harriet Colfax: Lighthouse Keeper, 9 March 1861-13 October, 1904: Lighthouse Station, Michigan City Harriet Colfax

  • Michigan City Marinas (2009) Jonita Davis

  • Harbors, Michigan City, Indiana, and St. Joseph, Michigan: Letter from the Secretary of War (1838)

  • Michigan City Beach Communities: Sheridan, Long Beach, Duneland, Michiana Shores (2003) Barbara Stodola