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In the late nineteenth century, the area around Michigan City was a land of rugged beauty with undulating sand dunes, wildflowers, berries, white pines, oak, and beech trees. Michigan City was becoming a thriving port town and, reflecting its name, connected Indianapolis and the rest of the state with goods delivered to its lakefront harbor from the east coast. The roads were rough, and travelers rode horse-drawn carriages or wagons to reach the bustling harbor town. Charles Tryon, a blacksmith, no doubt repaired many a horseshoe and wheel for these hardy Midwesterners. He settled in Michigan Township in 1896, and built a brick Queen Anne home, the most popular house style of the day. During the next twenty-five years, the area was extremely popular with tourists. Over 10,000 steamship passengers arrived from Chicago every weekend to visit Michigan City and the surrounding Indiana dunes. Big bands, amusement parks, theatres, cultural events, and other hallmarks of the Roaring Twenties helped make Michigan City a featured destination. However, as the Great Depression ended this time of prosperity, the tourism and shipping industry in Michigan City began to slow. After the war, Mr. Tryon went to California to seek his fortune and sold his home to the Werner family. They operated a dairy farm on the 170-acre property, and fertilizers, pesticides, and farm equipment were the order of the day. As a result, while environmentalists began to focus on the preservation of the Michigan City lakefront in the 1950's, the wetlands, natural prairies, dunes and woodlands of Charles Tyron's day began to disappear. Forty years later in 1990, Ed and Eve Noonan purchased the farm, and began to restore the farmland to its turn-of-the-century appearance. In 1995, the Noonan's took their land stewardship to the people, and Tryon Farm, a conservation community, was launched. As Tryon Farm was created, the Indiana coast of Lake Michigan began to reclaim its allure as a convenient and affordable place to live and visit. People enjoy LaPorte County's many antique shops, art galleries, theatres, unique dining establishments, casinos, and the Lighthouse outlet mall. Today Tryon Farm is home to fifty full and part-time residents who value a simple way of life as they share produce from the community garden, watch shooting stars while sitting around a bonfire, help paint the corn crib, gather eggs from the chicken coop, or take their dogs for a playful romp on the land. The Queen Anne farmhouse has become a destination for travelers, who also want to connect with nature, as they did when horse-drawn carriages rumbled over the roads. |
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