Our friends at the Valparaiso Chain of Lakes Watershed Group, South Shore Brass Band, and Indiana Ballet Theatre invite you to a free narrated program and concert celebrating Porter County’s first electric rail line. Experience early twentieth century music and dance from the interurban’s heyday.

“1st Trolley, Valparaiso, Ind. July 4th, 1910” This photograph, taken from the Methodist Church on Franklin Street between Jefferson and Chicago, captures the very first moments of the inaugural run of the V&N in Valparaiso on July 4, 1910.