Lake View Hotel Key Fob or Tag ;

this is a rareity - of Culver momorbilia - i have not heard of another existing to date --

owned by: Judith E. Burns

It is the brass key tag form the Lake View Hotel - it reads as follows on the front: Lake View Hotel Marmont, Ind. 8 * If carried away return * unsealed * By mail postage - { 3 } - cents. There is nothing wirtten on the back

It can date as early as mid 1891 - as we know from this new item , the approximate purchase date of the Kake view Hotel:

The Vandalia Company has purchased the Plymouth Club house and grounds at Lake Maxinkuckee. The tract of ground contains eight acres and is the most desirable property at the lake. - Logansport Pharos April 23, 1891

this key tag pre-dates 1895 or is early 1895 item - as the town was renamed in late 1895 as follows:

In 1895 it was proposed the name be changed to Culver City but the Post office Department in Washington D.C. declined the name as a village in Tippecanoe county Indiana existed under that name. Mr. Henry H. Culver negotiated with their town officials after finding out that it was named for Crane Culver . He offered to pay all expenses involved with the name change from Culver to Crane. He prevailed and Marmont became the town of Culver during a Special Fall Term of court in 1895 It is recorded in the Miscellaneous Deed Book D pg. 497 In part it reads: Change of Name of the Town of Marmont, Indiana to Culver City, Indiana ...At a term of the Board of Commissioners of said county, begun of Wednesday the 23rd day of October 1895.. the following proceedings were had on the 24th day of October 1895 in the cause of...Comes now O. A. Rea and ninety-nine other qualified electors of the town of Marmont, Indiana and present their "verified" petition... And it is now ordered, considered and adjudge by the board that said town of Marmont, Indiana shall from and after this date be known as Culver City, Indiana....Received for record October 25th, 1895 at 9 1/2 o'clock A.M. Thomas H. Walker, Recorder Marshall County, Indiana. One can find the name on maps and documents as: T own of Culver and Culver City but it was not until 1949 that it was officially and legally changed to just - Culver .

thus it makes this key tag 115 years old or older - it would be nice to find a listing in the Vandalia yearly annual reports to the President and board memebrs ect. of the expenditures and incomeexpinditures and income for the purchase of this item.