Baillytown, Indiana One Place Study

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Location: Baillytown, Indiana
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Indiana United States

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Contents 1 Baillytown, Indiana One Place Study 1.1 Name 1.2 Geography 1.3 History 1.4 Population 1.4.1 Notables 2 Sources

Baillytown, Indiana One Place Study

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Name

Baillytown is a former community in northern Porter County, Indiana, near the present-day communities of Porter and Burns Harbor. It was located around the Little Calumet River.

Geography

Continent: North America

Country: United States

State/Province: Indiana

County: Porter

GPS Coordinates: 41.63, -87.108

Elevation:

History

Joseph Bailly arrived with his family in 1822. He opened a store and established a fur trading post on the Little Calumet River.

Baillytown was platted in 1834.

In 1848, Joseph Bailly's son-in-law Joel Wicker recruited Swedish lumberjacks to cut trees for his sawmill.

Frederick Burstrom arrived from Sweden in 1857 and bought 100 acres of land in Baillytown. He paid $6 per acre.

In 1869, Anders Kjellberg purchased land and established his farm.

The Bailly homestead and Bailly Cemetery were acquired by Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1971. Chellberg Farm was acquired in 1972.

Population

Notables

• Joseph Bailly

Sources

• Canwright, Betty and Hopkins, Eva. A Porter Chronology.
• Cultural Landscape Report: Chellberg Farm
• McMahon, David (January 1997). "Rediscovering a Swedish Ethnic Past: The National Park Service and Baillytown, Indiana" (PDF). Swedish-American Historical Quarterly. 48 (1): 26–52.
• Swedish Baileytown: A Nineteenth Century Rural Enclave
• Winquist, Alan H. (1996). "Scandinavians". In Taylor & McBirney (ed.). Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience. ISBN 0871951126.