On Oct. 21, 1978, Lake Shore Lanes bowling alley and the coffee shop accompanying, located at 620 Lake Shore Drive, burned to the ground in a spectacular fire. Dating back to 1953, Jim and Mary Dewitt had owned the bowling alley, which was sold in 1977 to Don and Juliemae Neidlinger. The fire call came […]
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The entire upper floor of the Culver hardware store at 120 South Main Street was lost in a three-hour, $60,000, April, 1957 blaze, which The Culver Citizen describes as interrupting the “traditional” Easter Sunday noon parade. Residing in the apartment at the time was the Chatman family, one of several making up Culver’s African-American community […]
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The Culver Fire Department, which formed in Jan., 1903, began keeping hand-written records which continued through the century. Pictured here is the very first book in its entirety. Read more about the formation of the department and its early minutes here.
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The fire which claimed the Ferrier Lumber Company on the north side of East Jefferson Street in Culver was spotted around 4:30 a.m. April 21, 1923. Fire departments from Knox, Plymouth, and Logansport assisted, and Culver’s inadequate water supply forced firemen to pump water from nearby Lake Maxinkuckee. Efforts were concentrated on saving the surrounding […]
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Click a link below to navigate the Culver Citizen historical collection or click here to browse latest additions (sorted by latest posted). View the 1896 – early 1903 papers under The Culver City Herald here. 1903 Culver Citizen newspapers May – July, 1903 August – Oct., 1903 Nov – Dec., 1903 1904 Culver […]
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Posted in Churches, Culver -- Town of on Nov 10th, 2011
Viewing this file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click the icon for your free download. Publications of St. Mary (St. Mary’s) of the Lake Catholic Church, Culver. More to come…
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