Do you know of East Gary ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about East Gary. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with East Gary.<1>
Our sources for East Gary (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of East Gary other than they indicate that East Gary would be found somewhere in Lake County, Indiana.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1908 and closed in 1950.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Gary ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about East Gary:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)
Michigan Central Railroad Time Tables (July 1912)
Published by Michigan Central Railroad
Shell Oil Road Map for Indiana (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company
More Orphans in Lake County ...
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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Lake County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |