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  This view, looking east, shows the westbound Lake Shore # 23, at Kendallville's Union Station. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern was part of the New ... (read more)

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  This is the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad depot in Avilla, Indiana. This sits on what is now the eastern edge of the Saint James Restaurant ... (read more)

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  This view is looking south on what was then called Grant Street in Kendallville, Indiana. In the 1920's Kendallville's new planning commission decided that two Grant ... (read more)

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  This view, looking northwest, was taken from the roof of the Toledo & Chicago Interurban Power House. The field through which the tracks pass is now ... (read more)

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  This is my Great Uncle & Aunt posing in a car at the Kendallville Fair. Many people posed like this in the early days of the ... (read more)

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  This view, looking nortwest, is of the Car Barn on the left, and the Power House on the right. The Power House supplied electricity to run ... (read more)

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  This is the Raber-Wiltrout & Lang Company, located at 810 Mill Street, Kendallville, Indiana. The rail road tracks in the foreground are the north/south Grand Rapids, ... (read more)

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  This is Stonebraker's Mobil Station, around 1953. It stood on U.S. 6, across from the end of North Main Street, where Pizza Hut is now. The ... (read more)

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  This shows a harness race in progress at the Kendallville Fair, circa 1907. It was a popular spectator sport in those days. The old wooden grandstand ... (read more)

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  This is my grandfather, James Edward Mapes, with a team of mules. I believe the picture was taken at the rear of the John Deibele Saw ... (read more)

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  This is Car #2 of the Toledo & Chicago Interurban Rail Road. This picture was taken at what is now Sherman Street on the south side ... (read more)

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  This is The late Jack Berhalter of Kendallville, Indiana. Jack was a great person and my sister-in-law's father. He made deliveries for the Puritan Ice Cream ... (read more)

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  This is the Kendallville, Indiana Fire Department's horse drawn fire wagon & ambulace. They are sitting on South Main Street, across from City Hall. (read more)

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  Preston Motors was the local Indiana Motorcycle dealer in Kendallville, Indiana. This is a "Handy Guide Reference for Service and Trouble Shots." I'd love to have ... (read more)

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  This view, looking southeast, is the old Kendallville train station. A Grand Rapinds & Indiana (G.R. & I.) train is ready to head north. Next stop ... (read more)

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  The old Flint & Walling Warehouse, viewed from north of the tracks, in the Sargent Street, N. State Street area. It was known as a warehouse, ... (read more)

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  This is looking south west toward City Hall. The rounded building on the right was the "Air Dome", an open air movie theatre. The sidewalks are ... (read more)

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  Foodtown was one of the first supermarkets anywhere. It looks small in the photo but back in the early 1950's it seemed hugh, and by neighborhood ... (read more)

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  The New York to Paris, France race of 1908 passed through Kendallville in 1908. A major blizzard hit the area at that time with drifts up ... (read more)

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  This is the dedication ceremony for Kendallville's new City Hall in 1904. The fire department occupied the lower right side of the ground floor with their ... (read more)

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  This is the Kelly House Hotel and restaurant. The tower on the roof had an electric beacon which could be seen for miles. The Masonic lodge ... (read more)

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