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Hartsdale was a town in St. John Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Hartsdale was annexed by Schererville, Indiana, in 1911. == History == Hartsdale takes is name from the Hart Farm.〔T. H. Ball. Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900 or, A view of our region through the nineteenth century. Crown Point : Valparaiso (; Chicago : Donohue & Henneberry, printers ), 1900. p278. http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/t-h-timothy-horton-ball/northwestern-indiana-from-1800-to-1900-or-a-view-of-our-region-through-the-nin-lla.shtml〕 Aaron Hart was an early resident of the Schererville-Dyer area.〔Schoon, Kenneth. Calumet beginnings : ancient shorelines and settlements at the south end of Lake Michigan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. p182〕 He owned about 20,000 acres of land. Most of the land was useless marshland in the low areas between Lake Michigan's old Glenwood and Calumet Shorelines.〔 Lake George was the name of the body of water on Hart's swamp land, and in 1880 Hart drained the marshy former lake bottom by constructing the Hart Ditch north to the Little Calumet River.〔 He established the Village of Hartsdale one mile north of Schererville.〔 Two rail lines, the Joliet Cutoff and the Pan Handle passed through Hartsdale.〔 Hartsdale was location to the "Hartsdale" railroad yard and interchange where these rail lines crossed. In the late 1800s, the Hart farm employed forty employees who helped Hart grow grain, vegetables, raise dairy, beef cattle, and hay.〔 The founder and land owner Aaron Hart died in a ditch digging accident in January 12, 1883.〔http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~innwigs/ImageArchive/Schererville/ScherervilleImagesPeople.htm〕〔http://www.townofdyer.com/default.aspx?T1=4&T2=6&T3=1&T4=0〕 The town of Hartsdale never grew. By 1900 its neighbor Schererville had its church, two stores, a large brick school, and a population of about 250. Schererville, Indiana, including Hartsdale, was incorporated as a town in 1911, the same year as nearby St. John, Indiana. 〔 Today Route 41 passes right through the middle of the former Village of Hartsdale with a bridge above the Hartsdale rail yard and interchange. The railway interchange is still called "Hartsdale" by the railway operators to reflect the name of the town the interchange was in when named. Hart Farm Rd still exists on the west side of Route 41 about 1 block north of the Route 41 bridge in Schererville, Indiana. A map outline showing the former location of Hartsdale can be found here: http://wikimapia.org/23343821/Hartsdale 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hartsdale, Indiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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