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Horace oHVlanual 1931
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Foreword GARY—A name to conjure up fancy in the most prosaic of minds — once a ter¬ ritory controlled by a despotic monarch ruling from another continent across the sea, a forsaken area of dunes and swamplands — today a city, part of the greatest de¬ mocracy in the world, alert and teeming with hustling thousands, the symbol of dreams developed into practical realities-—such is the atmosphere of romantic con¬ trast surrounding the city of Gary. While the busy colonies on the Atlantic sea coast were struggling with Indians, French soldiers, and a tyrannical British king, the territory surrounding the pres¬ ent city of Gary was the scene of more and more frequent visits of bearded fur traders, intrepid explorers, and heroic missionaries. Foremost among the last is the great Father Marquette, who in the later seventeenth century passed along the old lake trail, which is now part of Gary, on his way from Detroit to Fort Dearborn. The saintly Jesuit has left his mark on the history of this territory as well as on the history of the nation. For the next two centuries, hardy pioneers, first from France and then from New England, forged their way to the wild territory around the southern border of beautiful Lake Michigan and settled near the vast sand-dunes, but left that lone¬ some area intact in its fastness. In 1904, the United States Steel Corporation began a search for a location on which to build what was to become the largest steel plant in the world. It was then that our tract of duneland, on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, between the old villages of Miller and Tolleston, was chosen as the location of the new steel plant. This site offered every desirable advantage, having access to the coal mines of South¬ ern Indiana as well as to the ore beds of Northern Minnesota, possessing facilities for transportation either by land or by water and affording ample space for a great industry and an expanding city. Under the guidance of Judge Elbert H. Gary, from whom the city takes its name, the land was bought, the steel plant built, and the new city laid out over leveled dunes and reclaimed swampland. Since March 12, 1906, the date when Gary was incorporated as a city under the laws of the State of Indiana, its growth from nothing to the steel center of the world is regarded as little short of phenomenal. This rise from a handful of construc¬ tion laborers and engineers to a population of 100,000, meteoric though it may seem, is not in any sense of the word the result of a haphazard turn of fate or a mere chance of fortune. Gary’s growth is due to those farsighted pioneers who, appreciating and relig¬ iously believing in the possibities of the budding city, diligently and skillfully laid the plans and foundations of a community which in a short quarter of a century would rise from a dune wasteland to a city known throughout the nation for its sud¬ den growth and its progressive spirit. The theme of our book recalls the early days of Gary’s history and those noble pioneers from Father Marquette to Judge Gary, who glimpsing a duneland on a lakeshore, visioned the one, a mighty Christian civilization, the other a happy com¬ munity and a great industrial center.
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