Valparaiso

Valparaiso is a town and the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, United States. The populace become 31,730 on the 2010 census. The site of present-day Valparaiso turned into covered in the purchase of land from the Potawatomi human beings by using the U.S. Government in October 1832. Chiqua's metropolis or Chipuaw became positioned a mile east of the modern-day Courthouse alongside the Sauk Trail. Chiqua's metropolis existed from or earlier than 1830 till after 1832. The vicinity is just north of the railroad crossing on State Route 2 and County Road 400 North.

Located on the historical Native American trail from Rock Island to Detroit, the city had its first log cabin in 1834. Established in 1836 as Portersville, county seat of Porter County, it become renamed to Valparaisoin 1837 after Valparaíso, Chile, near which the county's namesake David Porter battled in the Battle of Valparaiso during the War of 1812. The town turned into as soon as referred to as the "City of Churches" due to the massive quantity of church buildings placed there on the quit of the nineteenth Century.