February 29, 2024
1910 Cobalt Blue Souvenir China Shaker Hoosier Slide Michigan City Indiana
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1910 Cobalt Blue Souvenir China Shaker Hoosier Slide Michigan City IndianaThis is a souvenir china piece, from the 1910-1920 era period of time.The Hoosier Slide sand dune was Indiana's most famous natural landmark, The huge, barren dune stood where the NIPSCO generating station is now. The sand dune had disappeared by 1920, and NIPSCO bought the land in 1925.In the mid 1800s, the dune had trees and berries, cows even grazed there. As the trees were cut and used, the dune became bare, probably by 1870. Commercial sand mining began about 1890, when the Monon Railroad built a switching track along the south side of the dune, to serve the lumber docks along the wet side of the harbor. The sand was loaded in wheel barrows and pushed across planks to the gondola cars-this being done mostly by the 100 or so dock wallopers, and their families. These dock workers' main job was to unload lumber, corn and salt from the incoming ships. The sand mining was done in between ships.Around 1890, natural gas was discovered in central Indiana, and glass factories started in the Muncie area. Large users of Hoosier Slide sand were the Ball Brothers in Muncie, Pittsburg Plate Glass in Kokomo, and the nearby Hemingway Glass Co., which made insulators for telephone poles. As cars and mechanized farm equipment became more popular, core sand for foundries
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