Today, ten square miles of land, of which 0.11 square miles are technically water, boast a population of roughly 13,000 and form modern day Chesterton.\u00a0 Part of Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana, the town sits only 50 miles southeast of Chicago, close to the southern shore of Lake Michigan and the sand hills known as the Indiana Dunes.\u00a0 It is part of an area known as the tri-towns or the\u00a0Duneland<\/a><\/span>\u00a0area made up of Chesterton, Burns Harbor and Porter.<\/p>\n Although most don\u2019t know it, Chesterton actually has a colorful history.\u00a0 Part of a great continental crossroads, this corner of Indiana was for thousands of years home to a succession of early native dwellers attracted to its rich flora and fauna. The Potawatomi and Miami tribes of the Great Lakes Woodland Culture were the last of the Native Americans to hunt and farm the area\u2019s densely forested land.<\/p>\n Early contact with the \u201cwhite man\u201d began with French fur traders known as voyageurs in 1650. The resulting fur trade was at first quite advantageous to both cultures, but ultimately catastrophic for the Potawatomi who, after selling their land to the U.S. government, were forcibly pushed out of their own native Indiana to the Kansas Territory in 1838.<\/p>\n Control of the Great Lakes region<\/a><\/span>, including what is today Chesterton, passed to the British in 1763 with the decisive victory over the French in the French and Indian war, and eventually to the newly formed nation of the United States at the conclusion of the American Revolutionary war in 1783. What would later become Chesterton formed part of the Northwest Territory until the creation of the Indiana Territory in 1800, and then the state of Indiana in 1816.<\/p>\n The building of the Lakeshore and Michigan Southern rail lines through Chesterton in 1852 transformed a sleepy little agricultural community village into a thriving rail hub for much more than agricultural products. Immigrants from Sweden, Ireland and Germany (among many other countries) came in droves to the area to help build and maintain the railroads and later work in the brick, glass and china factories that mushroomed in the region.<\/p>\n Miracle | EcoWater also has deep roots in the region not only as a water filtration and water treatment specialist for over a half a century, but as the unsurpassed problem water expert in local HARD WATER treatment in Chesterton specifically as the only authorized dealer for best-of-breed EcoWater Systems REFINERS, <\/b>WELL WATER SOFTENERS\/CONDITIONERS and a broad spectrum of IRON WATER, SULPHUR and NITRATE, de-chlorination and Reverse Osmosis water treatment solutions.<\/p>\n With a history of serving Chesterton since the 1960\u2019s, Miracle | EcoWater<\/a><\/span> has been installing only the best-in-class water filtration systems to deal with the challenging water issues unique to Porter County and in particular Chesterton, Portage, Valparaiso as well as the\u00a0entire Duneland area.<\/p>\n Miracle | EcoWater, factory authorized service and repair team is considered among the best in Chesterton, offering emergency repair on a wide variety of water filtration systems for hard water, iron water, sulfur and nitrate issues as well as a wide range of water softeners beyond EcoWater Systems, including, Kinetico, Rainsoft, Sears, \u00a03M, GE, Waterrite, Culligan, Hellenbrand, Whirlpool.<\/p>\n Contact us to resolve your hard water issue in Chesterton, Portage, Valparaiso and all of Porter County or anywhere throughout the greater Northwest Indiana area including LaPorte, Michigan City (La Porte County) and Crown Point, Schererville, St John, Dyer, Lowell (Lake County).<\/p>\n Photo credit:\u00a0Westchester Township History Museum<\/p>\n Downtown Chesterton today.\u00a0 Main Street Building. 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