Index for Cottages and land owners, Plat Maps

I am changing to an all in one page for the listing of the lots and owners and plat maps - I believe this will be a greater asset to the site - and allow easier access to all the pages and maps involved and give a reference point of what the site contains also.

To quote Bob Rust from A Historical Review Grace United Chruch of Christ Culver, Indiana 1885-1985:

In the 1880's developement of lakeshore properties began. One parcel of 100 ft. frontage lots south of Maxinkuckee Landing were offered for $200 to $300 each. Earlier a 160-acre farm, South Shore, Lake Maxinkuckee brough a record price of $2.00 to S5.00 per acre. In 1906 Long Point lots were offered for $6.00 per fron foot, and in 1921, a 65-ft. East Shore lakefront lot sold for $1,200.

Early Land Owners	James F. D. Lanier Land Patent 1 James F. D. Lanier Land Patent 2 James F. D. Lanier Land Patent 3 William Thompson Land Patent	James F. D. Lanier's Land Patents from U. S. Government and William Thompson's Land Patent from U. S. Government. There are actual photocopies of these land patents.
North	1876 1880 1898 1908 1922 1953	This area covers North part of town, railroad property & Academy. These Have the plat sections for the area enlarged - except for 1953.
East	1876 1880 1898 1908 1922 1953East Side 1953 East Shore Lane	This area covers part part of Academy, East Shore and the East Shore Lane. These Have the plat sections for the area enlarged - except for 1953.
South	1876 1880 1898 1908 1922 1953South Shore Oak Crescent Area 1953 Ventian Village	Area is what today is of Venetian Village, South Shore Dr. These Have the plat sections for the area enlarged - except for 1953.
West	1876 1880 1898 1908 1908 West Town 1922 1922 West Town 1953West Shore Drive West Shore Circle 1953 West South Town 1953 West North Town	Area Would be West Shore Dr.; and the town area that would be considered lake frontage even when the railroad divided it off from the lake which is: South Street; Peru Court, Plymouth Street. These Have the plat sections for the area enlarged - except for 1953.
Cottager Lists	1900 1903 1930 1952 Names of Cottages	Lists for those years from various sources
First Plat Maps of Area	1835 1834-40 Indian Villiages	Early Maps showing the Indian Reservations.
Plat Maps	1876 1880 1881 1896- After Small 1896- After Large 1898 1900 1908 1922 1925 about 1929 1936 1948 1956 1961 1962 1963 1967 1968 1972 1974 1975 1976 1979 1981 Early 1990's 1995-6 1996 2005	Plat map of the Lake
Broken Down Plat Maps	1896 - after - N, NE, NW, S, SE, SW 1900 - All East Side 1908 Part 1 East Side 1908 Part 2 East Side 1922 Part 1 East Side 1922 Part 2 2005 Academy 2005 East 2005 South 2005 Town 2005 West	Broken Down Plat maps of the Lake; the 1900 has the sections broke down an enlarged to show detail- only a few cottagers listed - but some interesting facts,
Sanborn Fire Maps	1906 1914 1924 1937	Fire insurance maps are the most detailed historical records of the urban landscape. From 1790 to 1961, nearly every U.S. town and Shown on these maps, sometimes in great detail, are virtually every building, man-made structure and business standing at the time the survey was made.
Forgotten cottages		These are the properties bought up by Culver Military Academy in the late 1920's and early 1930's to protect them from encrouchment.

Cottagers from 1834-1922 are take from the plat maps mainly and they are incomplete. The 1900 list is from the Biological Survey book; the 1930 was a published list in the Culver Citizen. The 1903 I am compiling from the Lake News Columns. The 1952 was from the telephone directory. The 1953 to present has been taken from the lake directories and supplementing with the telephone directory and other various sources.

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