History

Attention Vendors: we are taking applications for vendors who would like to rent booth space during our festival for $10-$15. For an application please email portagehistorical@ymail.com with subject line of "Festival Vendor Application" The deadline...

The South Shore Civil War Memorial Trail’s exhibit, “Region United, Nation Divided: Following Lincoln,” will be on display at the Indiana Welcome Center through Wednesday, April 30. The exhibit showcases the region’s answer to Abraham...

As part of the South Shore Civil War Memorial Trail’s exhibit, “Region United, Nation Divided: Following Lincoln,” visitors to the Indiana Welcome Center will be able to learn about a soldier’s life during the Civil War from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00...

Want to see photos of the old Lake George Medical Center in Hobart, soldiers standing in front of the U.S. Steel Corporation building in Gary during the 1919 strike, or how the church on Bradway and 47th Street looked in 1921? If Northwest Indiana...

The South Shore Civil War Memorial Trail’s exhibit, “Region United, Nation Divided: Following Lincoln,” will be on display at the Indiana Welcome Center through Wednesday, April 30. The exhibit showcases the region’s answer to Abraham...

Members of the city of Portage took their annual trip back in time on Saturday afternoon at the Portage Historical Festival, which is hosted each year by the Portage Community Historical Society at Countryside Park. Alton Goin Museum, which is filled...