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Hobart’s Old Settlers Cemetery is located along South Lake Park Avenue (Ind. 51) north of 12th Street. As a project for Hobart’s American Revolution Bicentennial Commission in 1976, members of the Historical Society researched this burial ground. It had been…

Note: Images in this digital version of the article have been added and did not appear in the original print version published in Fall of 2024. Walter A. Elliot of Gary and Henry J. Kranz of Chicago were the developers…

George Earle, the founder of Hobart, was born in Falmouth, a coastal town in southwest England, in 1807. He was, according to records, the sixth of 13 children born to Joseph and Ann Crabb Earle. Joseph was a Wesleyan Methodist,…