RESOURCES @ THE LIBRARY
Most titles are located in the Indiana Room for in-library use only. Those titles are designated with IC prior to the call number. Titles with REF before the call number can be found in the Reference Section. All other titles without any designation are available for checkout for the Adult Nonfiction Section. Each section is located on the second floor of the Crown Point Community Library. These are only a few of the resources available; please ask the Reference librarians for further assistance.
LOCAL HISTORY
History of Crown Point
Some of these titles are also available in the Adult Nonfiction Section.
IC 977.299 CRO Crown Point Indiana 1834-1984: The Hub City
IC 977.299 CRO Crown Point Indiana: Treasured Memories
IC 977.299 CRO Crown Point Legacy Project (7 volumes, 2000-2008)
IC 977.299 CRO Post-Tribune Crown Point Sesquicentennial Supplement
IC 977.299 CRO Star Register Crown Point Sesquicentennial Supplement
IC 977.299 CRO Times Crown Point Sesquicentennial Supplement
IC 977.299 GIA Lake County Fair 150 Years 1852-2002
IC 977.299 SOU Souvenir of Crown Point’s Anniversary: 1834-1959
Northwest Indiana
REF 917.7289 LAK Lake County Interim Report: Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (includes pictures of Crown Point Houses and dates they were built)
REF 977.2 BLA Highways and Byways of Indiana
IC 977.2 GOO Counties of Porter and Lake: Historical and Biographical
IC 977.2 MOO The Calumet Region: Indiana’s Last Frontier
IC 977.299 CAN History of the Lake and Calumet Region of Indiana
IC 977.299 CLE A Pictorial History of Merrillville
IC 977.299 DRU This is Lake County Indiana (contains pictures of homes and farmland across the county)
IC 977.299 HIS Historical Records of Lake County Old Settler and Historical Association
IC 977.299 HIS History of Lake County
IC 977.299 HOR Cedar Lake, Indiana Landmarks of Old
IC 977.299 HOW Lake County and the Calumet Region
IC 977.299 LOW Sesquicentennial 1852-2002: Lowell, Indiana
IC 977.299 RAV Sources and Index for the History of Lake County Indiana (This is a great resource for beginning your research for Lake County, IN history)
IC 977.299 REF Reflections of Lake County
IC 977.299 SCH Calumet Beginnings
IC 977.299 SCH Memories of Lowell, Indiana and West Creek, Cedar Creek, Eagle Creek Townships
IC 977.299 STE Steel Shavings (Periodical depicting local history)
IC 977.299 THO Early History of Cedar Lake
IC 977.299 TIM Times Capsule: The Times History of the Calumet Region during the 20th Century
IC 977.29904 LAK Lake County Heritage
Timothy Ball, 19th Century Lake County Historian
IC 280 BAL Lake of the Red Cedars: Will it Live?
IC 280 BAL The Sunday Schools of Lake
IC 977.299 BAL Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County Indiana from 1834-1904 (There is a separate index at IC 977.299 Ball Index)
IC 977.299 BAL Hanover Papers
IC 977.299 BAL Lake County Indiana 1884
IC 977.299 BAL Lake County Indiana from 1834 to 1873
IC 977.299 BAL Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900
GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS
REF 910 COL Columbia Gazetteer of the World
IC 910.3 SCO Indiana Gazetteer
IC 917.72 BAK From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History
REF 929 KEM Vital Records Handbook
REF 929.40973 DIC Dictionary of American Family Names
GENERAL GENEALOGY GUIDES
The 929 section of the Adult Nonfiction Section, Reference Section, and the Indiana Room feature many more genealogy titles that can assist you with your research.
REF 025.06 MOR The Official Guide to Ancestry.com
IC 630 CEN Centennial Farms of Indiana (includes genealogical Indexes)
REF 929 DUM Finding your Chicago Ancestors
REF 929 SOU The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy
REF 929.1072 FIN Finding Indiana Ancestors
IC 929.3 CEN Census of Indiana Territory for 1807
IC 929.3 DAR DAR Patriot Index (5 volumes)
IC 929.3 IND Indiana Marriages: early to 1825
MICROFILM
Crown Point Star (formerly Lake County Star): 1850’s to present (This is a good source for obituaries, engagements, marriages, general articles and legal notices.)
Census Records:
Lake & Porter Counties: 1840-1880; 1900-1930
1790: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia.
1840: Alabama
1870: Atlantic City, New Jersey
1910: Clinton County, Iowa
INDEXES AND RECORDS
IC 912.77299 LAK Index of Land Transfer Records for Crown Point, 1928-1940
IC 929.3 CRO Crown Point Register and Star Newspaper Marriage and Death Index 1857-1930
IC 929.3772 IND Index to the Lake County Marriage by the Justices of the Peace (2 volumes – By Groom and By Bride)
IC 925.5 CEM Lake County Indiana Cemetery Records, several volumes
IC 929.5 OBT Obituaries from the Lake County Star 1908-1913
IC 977.299 RAV Sources and Index for the History of Lake County Indiana (This is a great resource for beginning your research for Lake County, IN history)
Ask at Ref. Desk Lake County Star Obituary Index 1940-Present or Crown Point Obituary Index
DIRECTORIES
Crown Point Phone Books, 1975 to present.
Haines Criss Cross Directory: Northwest Indiana, 1982-present.
Robinson’s Crown Point City Directories (scattered issues 1941-1996)
IC 373.05 CRO Crown Point High School Annual Publications or Crown Point High School Yearbooks – 1916, 1927, 1931-1940, 1943-present, please ask at Reference Desk if the year you need is missing
MAPS
Plat Maps are found in the Reference Section, with older editions in the Indiana Room.
REF 912.7291 LAP LaPorte County, Indiana Plat Map
REF 912.77297 BEN Benson-Newton Counties, Indiana Official Plat Book
REF 912.77297 JAS Jasper County, Indiana Plat Map
REF 912.77298 POR Porter County, Indiana Official Plat Book
REF 912.77299 LAK Lake County, Indiana Plat Map
IC 912.77299 LAK 1891 Plat Book for Appraisers of Real Estate, Lake County, IN
IC 912.77299 NOR North Township, Lake County Indiana Plat Book
On Map Flip Easel Sanborn Fire Maps (1886, 1892, 1899) These are detailed Crown Point street maps created to assist fire insurance companies with assessing risks associated with insuring properties. They can be helpful in locating specific homes and businesses during the late 1800s.
OTHER RESOURCES
Photo Notebook Historical pictures of Crown Point buildings, located behind the Reference Desk
Vertical Pamphlet Files Crown Point, Lake County, and Indiana information that includes historical articles, biographies, historical buildings, and maps, located in the Indiana Room
