2014 - Culver Properties

The data sheet shows the trend of the way Culver properties are going being owned by "Out of Towners".

It was done by another and shared but I have redesigned it and put it into table form for easier reading. Thus more research can be done with it and it can be kept up to date and changed when needed easier. There is stil some "tweaking" to do on it.

"Culver Owner" is a name that is new or not reconginized; "Culver Older Resident" is a name that is reconginized and i hwas in the Culver Community pre 1908 and some of the names are from "old families that date further back to the early and mid 1900's.

"Investmernt" just means the same person owns more than 1 or 2 parcels of land in Culver; many have 2 because the house is built onone lot and the garage another.

Not surprising is the area bounded on the East by Lakeshore Dr., State Road 10, the east edge of the Town Park and the woods eat of it refrred to as the "Indiana Trails" and the lakefront some time in the mid 1920's a future plan for the Culver Military Academy was done and it recommended that the Academy try and pruchased any land that was between their campus and the town limits of that time period - much of this area was not platted or was farm ground. The Lakview Hotel was purchased from the railroad and they purchased any Lakefront property that came up for sale between the Lakeview Hotel Grounds and the Palmer Hotel (which now is the Huffington Library. And/or just simply made an outright offer to the owners of house/lots to purchase that could not be resisted.

The property bounded by North of Acadmey Dr., Lakeshore Dr. and State Road 10 over to the original campus was all famr ground back then and belonged to the Dillon, Bogardus and Morris families.

The Morris family owned to the lakefront between the Palmer House and the "Indian Trails" and there were several plats to the town of Culver that existed and still are seen on maps tody: Edmund Morris Lake Front, Morris Lake Front and F. Morris Subdivision.