MILLER
If you have ever driven past St. Mary of the Lake Church in the Miller Section of Gary, you probably noticed that the church and the houses along that street are set very far back from the street. The reason for this is that there was once a railroad track that ran in front of those houses. That railroad intersected with the present CSX line just west of Lake Street. Whenever two railroads intersected in the 19th century there had to be someone who lived at that intersection with the railroad timetable so they could switch the rails back and forth to avoid the trains colliding.


In 1852 that person was named John S. Miller and the crossing where he lived and threw the switches became known as Millers crossing. Within a few years, a community grew up around the crossing made up mostly of Norwegian and Swedish railroad workers. They formed Temple Bethel Church, which is still in business and still operates a cemetery directly behind the Pepes on U.S. highway 20.

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By the 1880's, Miller was a small community of 200 to 300 people. Many worked for the railroads while others lived off the land. The body of water we now call the Marquette Park Lagoon was actually the head of the waters of the Grand Calumet River.
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