The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Establishment of the community followed the laying of a rail line and construction of a depot in 1887 by the Illinois Central Railroad. Calumet was platted in that year, and the formation of a post office and construction of a town hall and commercial businesses quickly followed — all capitalizing on the availability of rail service to and from the region. The siting of the railroad, however, proved to supplant another small town, Erie, which had been located a half-mile west and one and a half miles south of the Calumet depot.
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Start Calumet’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Calumet’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Calumet, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Calumet is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Calumet has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Philip and Anna Parrish Kirchner Log House in Peterson, 10.4 miles away.
Calumet and the nearest listed places
Closest to Calumet
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.