LaGrange County W. W. II Honor Rolls

This four sided structure has three plaques. (The extreme foggy day prevented getting photos showing the names clearly. Could you help by up-loading clear photographs?? Thank You !)

[ Plaque One ]

Roll of Honor

Citizens of LaGrange County

who served our Country ...

LaGrange County Organized 1832

Corner Stone

laid with public ceremony.

Aug. 15th A.D. 1878.

County Organized

May 14th A.D. 1832.

Jacob Vandevanter

Edmund Littlefield

Arthur Barrows

First Commissioners.

Joshua T. Hobbs

First Clerk.

County Seat located at Lima

A.D. 1832.

Removed to LaGrange

A.D. 1844.

First Term of Court held

Oct. 22nd A.D. 1832.

Marker is on ...

Commemorating LaGrange Centennial 1836 - 1936

The Centennial Stone was erected in 1936 to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Town of LaGrange on June 13, 1836.

LaGrange County was established by act of the Indiana Legislature in 1832, sixteen years after Indiana ...

LaGrange County American Revolution Memorial

This tablet is dedicated

to the memory of

The Revolutionary Soldiers

buried in LaGrange County

- § - - D. A. R. Crest - - § -

Placed by

LaGrange De Lafayette

Chapter D. A. R.

Marker is on North Detroit Street south ...

La Grange

This area has seen four phases of mining – placer, tunneling, hydraulic. And dredging. This bucket, one of a chain of 100, holds 12 c.f. and is from one of the worlds largest dredges. The Tuolumne Gold Dredging Co. started ...

La Grange Saloon

The original saloon on this site burned on January 13, 1897 as a result of a fire in the adjacent Coulter Hotel. The saloon owner Louis Levaggi, erected the present building the same year for 13,000. It was known as ...

The Old La Grange Schoolhouse

This building, circa 1875, replaced the Branch District School that was built of rough lumber in 1855. Typical of the era, it is one room with handmade furnishings, porch and bell tower. A native of Iowa, C. C. Wright came ...

The La Grange Mine

This mine was originally known as the Oregon Mountain group of claims, first operated about 1862. In 1892 the mine was purchased by the La Grange Hydraulic Gold Mining Company which brought water from Stuart's Fork through 29 miles of ...

LaGrange

Union Supply Base

Federal forces occupied LaGrange during the war, 1862-1865, and made it an important supply base. Gen. William T. Sherman established his headquarters here when the occupation began in 1862. In April 1863, Union Col. Benjamin H. Grierson left ...

La Prairie Grange Hall

La Prairie Grange No. 79 was organized February 27, 1873, and the Grange Hall was built between June 20 and September 5, 1874. Constructed jointly with the Town of La Prairie, the Hall cost $1,938.50.

In 1960 the Town Board deeded ...