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    Dyer
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    Dyer

    By Benninghoff, Paul Anthony and Dyer Historical Society

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    What had once been an ancient shoreline of Lake Michigan, mired with swamp and sand dunes, is today the town of Dyer, Indiana.


    Dyer's history consists of the old Sauk Trail turned-highway, strong-willed and hardworking visionaries such as Aaron Hart who drained the swamps and created farmlands, entrepreneurs who developed the early businesses and established Dyer as a town in 1910, and events such as the arrival of the locomotive and automobile that altered the lives of its citizens and shaped Dyer into the populated and bustling town it is today. From a sleepy farming community to a distant suburb of Chicago, the town of Dyer has a history both rich in its own right and very much tied to American history.

    In Images of America: Dyer, one will see how a small American town unique to its geological location is impressed onto the land and how influences by events unfolding beyond its borders can help create, and sometimes jeopardize, its identity. Through the photographic collection of the Dyer Historical Society, Dyer's history unfolds in a beautiful latticework of visuals and text combined.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateJan 11, 2010
    ISBN9781439624432
    Dyer
    Author

    Benninghoff, Paul Anthony

    Through the photographic collection of the Dyer Historical Society, Dyer's history unfolds in a beautiful latticework of visual and text combined. The members of the Dyer Historical Society are proud of the town's history and take great pleasure in sharing it with readers.

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      Dyer - Benninghoff, Paul Anthony

      Society

      INTRODUCTION

      Have you ever thought about what history is?

      There is more to history than just names and dates, ancient civilizations and dead presidents, or long, drawn-out wars interrupted by brief periods of peace. The history in textbooks is only a small fraction of recorded history, and recorded history is only a small fraction of history, the majority being untold. Each and every one of us has a history, which in turn is part of a whole. Like the many stone bricks in the Great Wall of China, our histories are a collection that constructs a larger sculpture. But, unlike the Great Wall of China, history is not fixed to one spot. It shifts and changes as time goes on. Histories of the past shape histories of the future and present history shapes how we perceive the histories of the past. Don’t believe me? Take one of your old history books and compare it to a text from today and see how much history has changed.

      To fully understand an event in history one must know what preceded it, what lead up to said event. But then we must understand the leading events and what had caused them. So how far back must we go to truly understand the history that has shaped our world? The answer: Much further than man can recount. Indeed, much further than man’s own history on earth. This is where the history of Dyer begins.

      We need to go back about 545 million years to what is called the Cambrian period. This is the start of a long process that shapes the landscape. A small, shallow sea once resided where Dyer stands today. What life existed had perished, lined the floor, and over time produced a limestone bedding. About 510 to 445 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, plant life began to emerge. Although Dyer would still be under water at this time, it was not until after the Devonian period, approximately 410 to 356 million years ago, when fish began to populate the earth and the planet saw its first trees and forests. The sea would retreat and expose the land underneath. The significance of this is the limestone, for it will play a part when we see the ice ages come and

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