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Lake Station, IN - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Lake Station  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Lake Station Home page. The Lake Station Home page provides as much information as possible on Lake Station. Knowing Lake Station’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lake Station’s Home page, you will also find Lake Station’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lake Station has a population of 11952. 50.2% of Lake Station’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.8 are female. 39.2% of Lake Station is married and 69.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $83,346, and the average rent is $941. Household median income in Lake Station is $48,585, and the individual median income is $24,783. Lake Station’s Ethnic is the following: White(75.3%), Hispanic(27.4%), Other(9.5%), Multiple(9.2%), Black(5.7%), Asian(0.2%), Native(0.2%).


Initially, the site of modern Lake Station was the starting point of two Amerind trails leading to Fort Dearborn. Later it became an early stagecoach depot stop, as the Fort Dearborn-Detroit Stagecoach Route passed through the site during the wet season. The location became known as Lake Station as far back as 1851 when it began to serve as a depot, the western terminus of the Michigan Central Railroad (on what would later become its Detroit to Chicago line).


This was the first train station in Lake County. The Michigan Central Railroad built a park and railroad shops around its two-story depot. A year later, in April 1852, George Earle mapped out and platted a town of about 6,500 acres (26 km2) on the site, continuing its name of Lake Station. Being a bedroom community, Lake Station welcomed Abraham Lincoln to its Audubon Hotel, perhaps on more than one occasion, according to oral history.


But George Pullman, who tried to negotiate for land in Lake Station for his proposed railcar company, never struck a deal and set up shop on the south side of Chicago instead. Prior to its current location in Crown Point, Indiana, the county seat was located on what is now the west end of Lake Station in a section called Liverpool, although it was a separate settlement at the time. The name of Lake Station was officially changed to East Gary in 1908 in an attempt to lure executives from the nearby US Steel plant in Gary, Indiana into creating a suburban community.


With another name change in 1977, primarily to disassociate itself from the urban decay and crime of Gary, the city reverted to its historical designation of Lake Station. Lake Station also plays host to some events such as the Fuzz Follies, which is a car show that takes place in Riverview Park every year since 1984.


Since 2004 The Heritage Days Festival has also taken place in Riverview Park. Both events are usually in June. The city's newest event held for the first time in September 2009 is Septemberfest, which is held around Labor Day weekend. In September 2015, the mayor of Lake Station, Keith Soderquist, and his wife, Deborah Soderquist, were found guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud and filing false income tax returns.


Under state law, a mayor convicted of a felony forfeits his elected office.Lake Station remains a mostly residential community.


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