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Diana, I know nothing about the brick yards in Porter, nor do I have any plat maps at hand
right now to look at, but the "town" you seek of Westchester is really a
township, a geographical division under a measuring standard in the US, usually consisting
of a 36 square mile area, measuring 6 miles by six miles. Westchester township includes
the following communities today of Chesterton, Porter and the unincorporated community of
Furnessville. From the high number of Scandanavian/nowegian names on W. Beam's
household census, I'd guess that it is in the area near Furnessville, an area which
was previously populated by the nords and such, but by 1880 was highly German/Prussian...
the first non-family name in that listing, Crieger, I suggest is a Krueger or Greiger. I
suyspect that it is Greiger which was a name in the Furnessvile area about that time.
(Furnessville is on the border of Pine Township and Westchester Township)
The following link centers in the Westchester Township area.
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=4607236&e=496540&s=100&...