The Battle of Gettysburg was fought 150 years ago, July 1-3, 1863 — a turning point in the Civil War. In observance of this anniversary, on Tuesday, July 9, the LaPorte Genealogical Society will hear Mark Chase, founder of the Calumet Region Civil War Preservation Project, who has worked to replace some 80 deteriorated headstones on Civil War veterans’ graves in the Calumet Region. His research on these men is part of the new historical tourism trail, the South Shore Civil War Memorial Trail.
The society’s regular meeting place will change as of this meeting. The group will now meet in the LaPorte Park and Recreation Department building at 250 Pine Lake Ave. in LaPorte. The society meets at 7 pm on the second Tuesday of each month, weather permitting. The public is welcome at all meetings.
For more information about the society’s activities in awards, research, abstracting, transcribing, indexing, publishing, and records preservation, visit http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inlcigs/.