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Parkview Heights Rehabilitation on Mayor’s Radar

January 22, 2016WKVI

Parkview Heights Construction copy — Photo courtesy of the Starke County Public Library

Knox Mayor Dennis Estok wants to revive a once proud Knox neighborhood. Parkview Heights was built in 1941 by the Federal Works Agency Division of Defense as worker housing for employees of the Kingsbury Ordinance Plant. During World War II the LaPorte County site was one of the largest shell-loading plants in the nation. Continue reading →

History of the Kingbury Ordinance Plant to be Presented Saturday

March 19, 2014March 18, 2014WKVI

The “History of the Kingsbury Ordinance Plant” will be presented at the LaPorte County Historical Society Museum on Saturday, March 22 at 1 p.m. CT.

Fern Eddy Schultz, LaPorte County Historian, will be presenting the history of the plant in the meeting room of the museum.

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