- 1920’s School Pictures
- 1921-06-16 Chesterton Chamber of Commerce Incorporation
- 1930 Portage Yearbook
- 1930’s School pictures
- 1940’s School pictures
- 1950’s School Pictures
- 2018 Summer Festival Pictures
- 25th Anniversary
- Aerial view of Portage in 1958
- Alice Walters album
- Archive Room
- Art Attack Club
- Arver Cheryl pictures
- Asplund
- Asplund Larson Gray – Jan 29, 2009
- Babcock
- Bender Family
- Blake Family Pictures
- Brandt Family
- Broncho John Sullivan
- by Bertha Foster
- by Janice Good
- by Robert Slanger
- by Thomas Cherry
- Charlson Family
- Churches
- Concord Stagecoach circa 1866
- Crisman Area Photographs
- Crisman Area Photographs
- Crisman Family
- Crisman Family
- Crisman Family 2
- Dombey Kraft Isbey Family Pictures
- East Gary Indiana
- Fifield
- Historical Festival – Jun 2009
- History of the Police Department
- Hoeckelberg Family
- Hope Lutheran Church Directory 1982
- House Dedication
- Jan Porter Album
- Kuehl – Pearce – Dinwiddie
- Lenburg Family
- Life in the 40’s and 50’s
- Lute Family
- Lute Family Display
- Lute Farm Pictures
- Malmstone – Beckman Wedding 24 Jul 1893
- Mayor Art Olson
- McCool Cemetery Gravestones
- Miltary Display Spring 2008
- More festival 2008 pictures
- More Nicholson Pictures
- Movie of James – Schrock Cemetery in 2008
- Museum 2006
- Museum 2009 – Mar 01, 2009
- Museum pictures by Mike Cipko
- New Photo Album Posted – 1908 Chesterton High School
- Nicholson Family Display June 2008
- Nicholson Family Pictures
- Old School pictures
- Pictures from Cheryl Arver
- Political pictures
- Portage Fire Department
- Portage High School
- Portage Historical Society Festival 2008
- Portage Police Department
- Portage Township HS Yearbook 1945
- Portage Township School Pictures
- Post Cards
- Robbins Family Pictures
- Russell & Jane Nicholson Family
- Samuelson Family
- School Pictures
- Schools 3
- Schrock Cemetery
- Scofield Family Pictures
- Scofield School Pictures
- Scofield-Herbert D
- Slanger’s Corner
- Slanger’s Corner by Robert Slanger
- The War Years, 1944-1945
- Things Torn Down in Portage
- Time Capsule opened in 2000
- Toering/Hommes/Warman
- Traeger Trager Family
- Walk a Thon 1934
- Wolf Family
- Wolf Mansion – Dec 04, 2008
- Wolfe-Foreman-Slangr
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Madelyn Lorenz & I started the first kindergarten in Portage Twp. about 1960 in the McCool Methodist Church. Madelyn still lives there but she & her husband, Chuck Lorenz on McCool Rd. have both had health problems. The teacher was Joann (Jody) Lewis (now in her 90s) who now lives in Florida and her email is: . Later she was the librarian at Portage. I was a news reporter for the Vidette-Messenger during the incorporation and many of the stories can be viewed on line. I also taught at Central School for 25 years. My grandson is bringing me to Portage Saturday. My husband, Bob Yates, built our home on Samuelson Road. He died in 1995. I gave a box of photos to the Portage paper which may have dissolved. June
June,
I am so sorry I just found this message. Thanks for checking in.
We have some pictures that we could not identify and they had “Yates” on the back and some percentage numbers so I figures they came from someone at a newspaper.
I am with the Portage Historical Society.
I just found your answer, Kathy.
My second husband, George McKinniss, died Nov. 38, 2015 and I moved back to Otterbein, In where I had a house all the 19 years we were married. I have been trying to find some of the stories I wrote about the incorporation of Portage in the Vidette-Messenger. June Yates (McKinniss)
You can now reach me at
(765)581-4119
P. O. Box 133, Otterbein, In 47970
Hello.
My name is Mark Hoiseth and I’m looking for information regarding a stage coach my grandfather Oscar Hoiseth made by hand back in the 1970’s…some family friends think he may have sold it or donated it somewhere in Porter County.
Any information you may have would be greatly appreciated as my father and I would simply like to see it again.
Thank you.
I’ve been with the Portage Community Historical Society for over 10 years and have never heard about this stagecoach but I’d be happy to post your question in our newsletter.