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PORTER COUNTY


Established in 1835, Porter County reaches from Lake Michigan in the north to the Kankakee River in the south. The county is named for commodore David Porter, Commander of the Essex in the war of 1812.

Porter County contains the Indiana Dunes State Park and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Joseph Bailly, a French-Canadian fur trader, was the first white man to settle in northwest Indiana. Arriving in 1822, he built a trading post near the Little Calumet River, where the North Sauk and Potawatomi trails converged. For ten years it was one of only two posts between Fort Dearborn (at the present site of Chicago) and Detroit.

The Bailly family occupied the forty-two-acre homestead until 1918 when it became a Catholic retreat. After passing through private hands it became a part of the national park in 1971.

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