Lake+of+the+Red+Cedars+Museum

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The Lake of the Red Cedars Museum began as a boarding house on the northwest side of Cedar Lake. It was used by the Armour Brothers Meat Company as housing for the workers who farmed ice from the lake in the winters from 1890 to 1918. In 1918, the building was purchased by Christ Lassen, who had it moved across the frozen lake to its present location on the east side of the lake. Lassen also had an addition built onto the boarding house, using materials from the abandoned Armour ice barns. The new hotel opened in 1920.

The Museum is now run by the Cedar Lake Historical Association and offers tours in May through September. Visitors will see some of the original tools of Dr. Scholl. Peter Scholl once lived in the Armour portion of what is now called Cedar Lake. The museum also houses a mastodon bone found when a small lake in town was dredged.

The Cedar Lake area was once home to the Pokagon band of the Potawatomi Indians. The fields now occupied by the Winding Creek Estates subdivision were once a rich source of artifacts. "Treasure hunters" would search the fields each spring after they were plowed for the new crops until the subdivision was built in 2003. Indiana is home to other Native American groups, such as the Mississipians in southern Indiana.

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