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US Steel Gary Works employees pictured in 1912. Gary, Indiana was named after Judge Elbert H. Gary, co-founder of US Steel. This coastal part of Northwestern Indiana was the chosen sight for the new steel company's operations, around which would form a community of actual people. To make a place for those people, US Steel created a subsidiary called the Gary Land Company. That company's president, Eugene Buffington, had a dream; "Gary is nothing more than the product of effort along practical lines to secure the right living conditions around a steel manufacturing plant." The future was looking bright.
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photo copyright: Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana