La Porte County Historical Society Museum

Veteran's Free Day
2022-05-31

Memorial Day
2022-05-30

Veteran's Free Day, Armed Forces Day
2022-05-21

Program by Ted Rita
2022-05-17 19:00 (America/Chicago)
7:00 PM. at the Museum.

Historical Society Meeting
2022-05-17 19:00, 2022-04-19 19:00

New Scavenger Hunt
2022-05-01
A new scavenger hunt showcasing lace from the Museum’s collection will be available this month.

Photo Display
2022-05-01
Photo Contest submissions will be on display all month long.

Winners of the 2022 Photo Contest announced!
2022-04-29

Photo Contest submissions due
2022-04-22

Program by Liam Hobbs
2022-04-19 19:00
Liam Hobbs is Assistant Principal and instructor of languages at Sacred Heart Apostolic School in Rolling Prairie. Mr. Hobbs grew up in rural Howard County and graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville. He started his education career in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Upon moving to LaPorte County in 2005, Mr. Hobbs was intrigued by the murals on the walls of the Rolling Prairie post office, which led him to begin studying local history. He has assembled a small archive of materials related to the property at Silver Lake, which five different educational institutions have called home over the past hundred years.

Museum Artisan Fair
2022-04-10 10:00 - 15:30

Plow Day
2022-04-10
2022 Spring Plow Day with La Porte County Draft Horse Association at the field near the Door Prairie Barn. The public is invited to come and watch the different breeds of draft horses using horse-drawn implements in the field. This is a free event. The viewing public should park in the La Porte County Historical Society Museum parking lot. Event participants with horse trailers will park to the north of the round barn. The address of the museum is 2405 Indiana Ave, La Porte, IN. Rain date is Sunday, April 24

Free Day!
2022-04-10
Museum open free of charge!

New Scavenger Hunt
2022-04-01
Search for gloves around the Museum with our new scavenger hunt!

Travelling Exhibit
2022-03-28
This is the last day to view the Indiana Historical Society’s Travelling Exhibit “Securing the Vote: Women’s Suffrage in Indiana”

Program by Dorothy Palmer
2022-03-15 19:00
“Michigan City, Indiana: Businesses & The People That Made Them Prosper” 7:00 PM. at the Museum.
Michigan City sprang from “a place of sand” and grew to a thriving town of large and small businesses. The people who kept them running and made them successes are captured in these over 400, fully indexed pages covering 1832-1890. For three years, the authors collected business names from county and city directories, state gazetteers, newspapers, historical files and publications. Family data was collected from those sources as well as online databases. If you had an ancestor working in Michigan City in these years, you will, likely, find them within these pages. The researchers, Gloria D. Arndt and Dorothy Germain Palmer, have published, separately or with others, a number of La Porte County genealogy and history books.

Historical Society Meeting
2022-03-15 19:00
7:00 PM. at the Museum

New Scavenger Hunt
2022-03-01
International Women’s History Month Scavenger Hunt now at the Museum

Closed, New Year’s Eve
2020-12-31

Kwanzaa begins
2020-12-26

Closed, Christmas Day
2020-12-25

Closed, Christmas Eve
2020-12-24

First Day of Winter
2020-12-21

Hanukkah ends
2020-12-18

National Guard Founding Day
2020-12-13

Veteran’s Free Day in observance of National Guard Founding Day
2020-12-12

Hanukkah begins
2020-12-10

Christmas at Pioneerland (Fairgrounds)
2020-12-05 - 2020-12-06

Museum Christmas Season Begins
2020-11-27
