1960 Map of Portage

About this map

The industrial and residential growth of Northwest Indiana is captured here as the expanding outskirts of Gary meet the shoreline of Lake Michigan. The landscape is a dense network of major transport corridors, including the New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio, and Pennsylvania railroads, which cut through the sandy terrain and low-lying marshes. Older land divisions remain visible through the Old Indian Treaty Boundary, which slashes diagonally across the topography near Ogden Dunes.