Lake Maxinkuckee Its Intrigue History & Genealogy Culver, Marshall, Indiana

508 Lake Shore Dr. ( 504 Lake Shore Dr. )  





It also was possibly listed at one time as 514 Lake Shore drive as that number appears on the sanborn map and also as 610 Lake Shore Drive.

. Section 16 - 500.90A 1835 Original Survey
Section 16 c. 1837 500.90A (North shore town and academy)


1872 - Section. 16
    Est. of I N Morris 105 A ( also 80 A)
    J. Duddleson - 30.60A & 10A
    T. Houghton 90A.
    J. HOughton Acreage not stated
    J ___ name illegible 4A
    G. A. Durr 10A
    Lot no name no acreage stated
    G. A. Durr 5A? - res (Lot 2 3A & 3A)
    Dr. Durr No amount Stated lots as if to be 2 large
    L D W [Lorenzo W. Wiseman]


1876 - J. Castleman - 190A

1876 Section 16
    1850-1876 I. N. Morris 175/185a   [Isaac N. Morris] - 185 A


1880 North Section 16 - 500.90 Acres Town
    I N Morris 185.34
    B. W. Watt 15.50A
    LakeView Club 15A
    J Duddleson 109.31A
    Tho. Houghton 90A.
    J. E. Houghton 19.60A
    E Parker 27 A


From the Logansport Daily Journal page 3 dated Aug. 27, 1882:
    All the preliminaries for the extension of the Logansport branch of the Vandalia railway to Lake Michigan have been satisfactorily adjusted, and upon compliiance with a few easy conditions the contact will be closed, and the work will be commenced and pushed to completion.

    Readers of the Journal are familiar with the route of this line to Marmont (Maxinkuckee), and will have no difficulty in following it to South Bend and the lake...
    With these advantages before them, our citizens are asked to consider one of the conditions above named, which condition is that the right of way shall be furnished free to the new line thorugh our county. The estimated cost of this right of way is from $7,000 to $10,000 and it is proposed to raise the amount by subscription. A consideraable portion of this subscription has already been secured, and a committee appointed for that purpose will make an effort to raise the remainder during the present week...


1883 - Oct 6 - The.Vandaiia railroad company commenced laying iron at Marmount a d ay or two ago, and-withln a short time the tract will be completed from Maxinkuckee lake to the Nickle Plate railroad, a distance of about three miles,- Logansport Pharos Tribune

1888 - Meat Market / ?Hotel? - by Fred Keppler of Logansport and was demolished in March 1933 to erect a Phillips 66 gas station and later was the Shell Gas station. It was located on the Northeast corner of Lakeshore Drive and State Street

1889 - Daniel A. Bradley - Bradley Hotel
    purchased a place formerly owned by Celia VanSchoiack


1898 - Section 16
    L. C. Dillion - 10A, 99.31A, 79.76, 75.60A
    T. Houghton 89A
    A. Roughton
    E. Duddle(son) 9.60A
    E. Morris 21.49A/Morris Lake Front Plat
    T. H. & L RRR Lake View Club 15 A.
    J. J. Bryant
    Depot
    Incorporated Limits of Culver


1900 - Evermans' Biological Survey




1906 - Restaurant - by the 1906 Sanborn Map which shows a large building divided into 2 stores.


1907 - May 2 - D. A. Bradley to E. J. Bradley part outlot 4 Toner's add., Culver $2300

1908


1908 - Jan 16 - Seely L. VanSchoiack has sol to Ed Bradley the lot adjoing the Brabley hotel on the west for $450. Bradley will erecr a building 28 X 100, one story high, to be used as an amusement resort. He had comtracted with the Brunswick company for two bowling alleys and tow pool tables and as soon as the weather permits wiill commence laying the foundation for the construction of a fram building. The entire incestement will represent between $2,500 and $3,000.

1914 - Restaurant & Rooms by the 1914 Sanborn Map


1920 - Jul 21 - Hotel Bradley becomes Chasnelle, The Ad states : Now open - throughly equiped and renovated, the former Bradley Hotel, hereafter to be known as "The Chasnelle"...

" 1922




1922 - Hotel (by plat map)
1924 - The Sanborn Fire Map labels it as the Chasnelle - this is labled as Chasnelle on the Sanborn fire map. David Burns also said this was known as the Paramont Hotel which is confirmed by the Jul 1925 Citizen Announcement name of the Chasnell Hotel has been changed to that of Paramount Hotel... management remains the same... Mrs. A. McLochiln, prop


1933 - March 15 - Kemple to Build Service Station - Homer Kemple - Phillips 66 Gas Station
    1934 - Sep - Buys Blue Front - Homer Kemple has bought the front half of Henry Lizenberger's Blue Front dance hall building (formerly bowling alley) which he will wreck and use the space for the enlargement of the driveway to his gasoline station


1937 Sanborn map this is labeled as auto Sales& service and with gas pumps

Note - there is also another gas station on the lot across State Street next to the movie theater by 1937; besides the one that has been down on the south east corner of Lakeview Street and Lake Shore Drive since 1924!


1944 - Feb. 2 - Kewanna Man Buys Phillips Station
    Lester Van Meter of Kewanna has bought the Phillips 66 Service Station of George Spangler taking possession Tuesday


1944-1952 - VanMeter - Hook - Nelson - Farm Implement Co

1960 Donald P. and Genevieve (Sales) Osborn purschased an interest in the Nelson International Harvester and sold it in 1962 by their biography in the 1986 History of Marshall County.

New Town Hall For Culver
    Nelson Equip. Co. Building and Lots fire Purchased" Occupancy June 1

    The purchase of the Nelson Equipment Co. building on Lake Shore Drive for use as a new Town Hall was announced by the Culver,Town Board at its regular meeting on Monday night.

    Board President Ted Ervin said the total purchase price of $25,000 includes the building which houses the Nelson farm equipment business now being liquidated, and two vacant lots across the street, behind the Shell Oil Co. property.

    The price of the building was $23,500, and for the two lots, which will be converted to parking lots, was $1,500.

    Possession was promised by June 1. though Maurice Nelson, the owner, indicated that the building will probably be available to the town before that date.

    Slated to be moved into the new quarters over a period of several months will be the Fire Dept., Police Dept., Council Chambers, and Clerk-Treasurer's

    The Fire Dept. will move first, the board indicated, since it can be accommodated with a minimum of building renovation.>

    Later, as space for the various departments is allocated and the interior of the 70 x 80-foot building is remodeled to these requirements,the other departments will be moved.>

    The present Town Hall on Pl ymouth Street will be taken over by the Street Department as it is vacated by other departments, and the building presently used by the Street Department will probably be sold. >

    The present Town Hall has housed the town departments for at least 40 years, according to Ernest Carter, building commissioner, and a longtime Culver resident. >

    The building has been overcrowded in recent years, particularly the F i re Department, which has added new and larger equipment...>

    The purchase price for the new Town Hall will be paid over a three-year period through financing arranged with The State Exchange Bank...


1966, Jun -1976 - Culver Town Hall


1966-present - Culver Fire Station

    TONER ADD OLOT4 69.5' N&S X 78.5' E& W]