Munster, Indiana Town of Munster, Indiana Munster's locale in Lake County (left)and the state of Indiana (right).
Munster's locale in Lake County (left) Named for Jacob Munster Munster is a town positioned in North Township, Lake County, in Northwest Indiana, United States.
View of the Centennial Park lake and amphitheater, opened in 2007.
Munster is positioned at 41 56 45 N 87 51 25 W (41.551457, -87.501431), at a point on an ancient shoreline of Lake Michigan (known as the Calumet Shoreline) which is today Ridge Road.
This ridge runs east and west through the north part of town, hence the town's nickname "Town on the Ridge".
The town's boundaries contain three small lakes, one of which, positioned inside Centennial Park, is marshy and undeveloped.
Munster is bordered on the north by the Little Calumet River, a shallow river surrounded by a thin strip of wooded area; and on the West by the Illinois state line.
According to the 2010 census, Munster has a total region of 7.65 square miles (19.81 km2), of which 7.57 square miles (19.61 km2) (or 98.95%) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2) (or 1.05%) is water. Although a village did not exist in what was to turn into Munster's town boundaries, a trail along the dry sandy ridge now known as Ridge Road was well traveled by the tribe.
Today, Munster's downtown area, the Town Hall, Police and Fire Department headquarters, the Centre for the Visual and Performing Arts, and the Munster Post Office are all situated on Ridge Road.
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the region that is today Munster was part of territory claimed by France as French territory.
As the numbers of Native Americans dwindled, pioneer pioneer began to inhabit the region which would turn into Munster.
When Jacob Munster, a young man from the Netherlands who until the 1860s spelled his surname "Monster," opened an region General Store complete with a U.S.
The postal service was titled Munster, as it was positioned in Jacob Munster's general store.
Before long more and more citizens moved to the "Munster" Area, and in 1907 Munster was incorporated as a town, with 76 inhabitants voting "yes" for the incorporation and 28 voting "no." Munster soon became a booming town that thriving many citizens .
Munster saw difficult times through the rough years of the Great Depression and the two World Wars, like many other new suburbs in America.
In September 2008, Munster's northern portions suffered record flooding resulting from the impact of Hurricane Ike, which caused the Little Calumet River to overflow.
A chief break occurred in the levee positioned near the intersection of Calumet Avenue and River Drive in the northwest quadrant of the town.
Munster has requested the Army Corps of Engineers to elevate the levee in low-lying areas.
The 2010 Comprehensive Plan for Munster's next twenty years includes plans for a new town center with shopping and dining to be organized around a proposed train station. As of 2011, the median income for a homehold in the town was $75,349 while the mean income for a homehold in the town was $97,222.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 24.3% under the age of 18, 5.5% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 27.5% from 45 to 64, and 18.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $63,243, and the median income for a family was $74,255.
Federally, Munster is situated in Indiana's 1st congressional district, which is represented by Democrat Pete Visclosky.
Among them are the Community Hospital, the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, The Times of Northwest Indiana newspaper, a Pepsi - Co bottling and distribution facility, a Whole Foods Market distribution center, the Community Veterans Memorial, the LEED-certified Centennial Park and Golf Course, Kaske House Museum at Heritage Park, Bieker Woods Nature Area, eleven miles of bike paths, an innovative Public Art and Sculpture Program, the new Munster Music Festival, the Munster Centennials Vintage Baseball Team, and the Babe Ruth Baseball.
Munster is also home to the Three Floyds Brewing Company, a microbrewery and craft beer-drinker's destination that has attained county-wide cult status, most prominently for its 'Dark Lord Day' event, which draws 6,000 citizens to the Munster brewery every April. In spring 2011, Simborg Development revitalized plans for a $60 million renovation of the 72-acre Lake Business Center site fronting Calumet Avenue that will open new commercial opportunities for the Town of Munster.
This development, originally to be titled Munster Town Center that would have created a mixed-use center of retail shops and restaurants, commercial offices, medical facilities as well as an extended-stay hotel, was modified to maintain the warehouse facility and maintain a high-tech image exterior for the development.
One of Munster's newest redevelopment projects is the region immediately encircling the former Munster Steel site, positioned to the north of the town's Centennial Park. The area, titled "Centennial Village," will be a mixed-use transit-oriented evolution that will feature both retail and multi-unit residentiary housing once it is completed. The Calumet Avenue undertaking separation has been prepared since the early 1940s, with Henry Ford dominant the change.
The commercial airport closest to Munster is the Gary/Chicago International Airport in Gary, but most Munster inhabitants and visitors travel from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport or the Chicago Midway International Airport.
Lansing Municipal Airport, positioned immediately west of Munster in Lansing, Illinois, serves the area's general aviation market.
Munster lies just south of the Borman Expressway (I-80/94).
The Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District is developing the West Lake Corridor universal a 9-mile extension of the south shore barns from Hammond, IN south to the border of Munster, IN and Dyer, IN.
The universal will include two train stations in Hammond and two train stations in Munster (one station at Ridge Rd.
The town hall is positioned right off Ridge Road, Munster's chief historic thoroughfare.
The School Town of Munster is the town's enhance school system.
All five schools in the fitness are recognized as Indiana Blue Ribbon schools and have been awarded five-star ratings.
Munster High School is one of a several schools from Indiana on Newsweek's 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 Top Schools list.
The school is also ranked on The Washington Post's 2011 "The High School Challenge". Additionally, Munster was cited by Neighborhood Scout for offering the best combination of enhance school character and affordable neighborhoods in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. In 1875, Munster's school board (which at the time was not officially designated School Town) directed a single three-room school home positioned on the corner of Calumet Avenue and Ridge Road.
In 1913, the school board decided to add a second school building due to increased enrollment.
The new Munster school was dedicated in 1915.
The school was retitled Lanier School in 1950.
These new additions were not enough to accommodate Munster's quickly growing population.
Eads Elementary School was assembled on Harrison Avenue, for students residing west of Calumet Avenue.
Elliot Elementary School was assembled on White Oak Avenue.
With the two new elementary schools in operation, Lanier School became a Junior High School (grades 7-9).
Following graduation from undertaking 9, students attended high schools in either Hammond or Highland to complete grades 10-12.
Wilbur Wright Junior High opened in 1960, causing Lanier to downsize to an elementary school.
Amid the closing expansion of the school system, the board gave serious consideration to adding a high school.
The doors to the new high school opened to students in September 1966.
In 1969, a new elementary school was added.
Hammond Elementary School is the newest of Munster's three enhance elementary schools.
As of 2011, two of Munster's three elementary schools have since been completely rebuilt; the new buildings for James B.
Munster High School dedicated a state-of-the-art football, track and soccer complex in 2010, as well as a $17,000,000 Aquatic Center in January 2011.
The latter facility is one of two scholastic aquatic centers in Indiana and the only one that is connected to a high school (the other is IUPUI's natatorium).
In 2012, a two-story classroom addition was constructed at Munster High School to accommodate the burgeoning student population.
The School Town of Munster implemented a curriculum/technology initiative termed 1 to 1 Technology for the 2011-2012 school year.
Two private schools are positioned in Munster; St.
Paul's Lutheran school is positioned at 8601 Harrison Ave, and was established in Hammond in 1886.
The church and school moved to Munster in 1981.
List of schools - School Town of Munster Munster High School Hammond Elementary School Munster has ten parks, three lakes, a nine-hole golf course and driving range, eleven miles of bike paths, an innovative enhance art and sculpture program, and two recreational points of interest.
Centennial Park, the newest and biggest of these facilities, was assembled on a former landfill and opened in 2007.
Centennial Park's amenities include a clubhouse with green roof and banquet facilities, The View restaurant with outside seating, a nine-hole (Ted Nugent of Nugent Golf in Vernon Hills, Illinois.) designed golf course and driving range, a live stage amphitheater, a lake with two bridges, three fountains, fishing opportunities, and a boardwalk, a sculpture walk (in progress), formal botanical plant nurseries, outside pavilions, walking trails, access to the Pennsy Greenway, a 3-acre dog park, and soccer fields.
Events held at Centennial Park include Munster Music Festival, Grape Escape Wine Festival, July 4 fireworks displays over the lake, and an outside movie series.
Community Park is another prominent Munster park and hosts the town's annual Car and Motorcycle Show.
Features of this facility include an outside swimming complex, a skate park, lighted tennis courts, playgrounds, baseball fields, a basketball court, a civil center, and picnic areas.
The park is positioned immediately east of the Lake County Public Library's Munster branch.
Munster's Babe Ruth All-Star squads have won six state championships since 1985.
List of parks and recreational facilities Munster Parks & Recreation Munster Pool "Town History / Town of Munster, IN".
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Keith Benman and Andrew Steele - The Times (August 2, 2015).
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