Calumet Beginnings
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Author | : Kenneth J. Schoon |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253342188 |
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The landscape of the Calumet, an area that sits astride the Indiana-Illinois state line at the southern end of Lake Michigan was shaped by the glaciers that withdrew toward the end of the last ice age--about 45,000 years ago. In the years since, many natural forces, including wind, running water, and the waves of Lake Michigan, have continued to shape the land. The lake's modern and ancient shorelines have served as Indian trails, stagecoach routes, highways, and sites that have evolved into many of the cities, towns, and villages of the Calumet area. People have also left their mark on the landscape: Indians built mounds; farmers filled in wetlands; governments commissioned ditches and canals to drain marshes and change the direction of rivers; sand was hauled from where it was plentiful to where it was needed for urban and industrial growth. These thousands of years of weather and movements of peoples have given the Calumet region its distinct climate and appeal.
Author | : Kenneth J. Schoon |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2016-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253023408 |
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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. Thousands of tons of hazardous waste were dumped in and around the rivers with no thought for how it would affect the region's water, land, and air. However, a remarkable change of attitude has resulted in the rejuvenation of an area once rich in natural diversity and the creation of a National Park that brings in more than two million visitors a year, contains beautiful greenways and blueways, and provides safe recreation for nearby residents. A community-wide effort, the cleanup of this area is nothing short of remarkable. In this Indiana bicentennial book, Ken Schoon introduces the reader to the Calumet area's unique history and the residents who banded together to save it.
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Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Calumet Region |
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Author | : Indiana Writers' Program |
Publisher | : Indiana Writers' Program |
Total Pages | : 334 |
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Genre | : History |
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The Calumet region historical guide
Author | : William Frederick Howat |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Calumet Region (Ill. and Ind.) |
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Download A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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Release | : 1901 |
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ISBN | : 9780243768301 |
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Author | : Amanda McMillan Lequieu |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2024-05-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231552793 |
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Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and economic crises. Why do people remain in declining areas through difficult circumstances? What do their choices tell us about rootedness in a time of flux? Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in Iron County, Wisconsin, Amanda McMillan Lequieu traces the power and shifting meanings of the notion of home for people who live in troubled places. Building from on-the-ground observations of community life, archival research, and interviews with long-term residents, she shows how inhabitants of deindustrialized communities balance material constraints with deeply felt identities. McMillan Lequieu maps how the concept of home has been constructed and the ways it has been reshaped as these communities have changed. She considers how long-term residents navigate the tensions around belonging and making ends meet long after the departure of their community’s founding industry. Who We Are Is Where We Are links the past and the present, rural and urban, to shed new light on life in postindustrial communities. Beyond a story of Midwestern deindustrialization, this timely book provides broader insight into the capacious idea of home—how and where it is made, threatened, and renegotiated in a world fraught with change.
Author | : Kathleen A. Brosnan |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0822987724 |
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Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet—City of Lake and Prairie—with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections over centuries, from the Native Americans who first inhabited the region to the urban dwellers who built a metropolis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As one millennium ended and a new one began, these same features sparked a distinctive Midwestern environmentalism aimed at preserving local ecosystems. Drawing on its contributors’ interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.
Author | : Henry Homeyer |
Publisher | : Bunker Hill Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781593731083 |
Download Wobar and the Quest for the Magic Calumet Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Wobar, a boy who can speak with animals, runs away from a new school with Roxie, a cougar. They encounter the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier who was given, then lost, a magic, peace-dealing calumet (peace-pipe) and set off to find it.
Author | : Writers' Program. Indiana |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2012-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781290083812 |
Download The Calumet Region Historical Guide; Containing the Early History of the Region As Well As the Contemporary Scene Within the Cities of Gary, Hammond Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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