Winfield, IN: Erie Depot and Milk Cans

Wayne Hudak posted

More Crown Point Indiana area. Well before it was called the Erie Lackawanna The Chicago and Erie had a small station at Winfield Indiana (east of Crown Point). The Chicago and Erie (also previously named the Chicago and Atlantic) ran from Marion Ohio to Hammond Indiana, obviously the E-L's west end. The Erie bought the route in 1895, kept the name Chicago and Erie, and did not merge it into it's system until 1941.

Photo 1915 from NWIndiana Genealogy, Shook Collection.
Dennis DeBruler The 2005 SPV Map shows a Winford about a third of the distance between Palmer and Crown Point. So I think the hamlet identified by Mark-Patty Sadowski was the station. Judging from a 1952 aerial photo (the oldest I could find), it was either west of Benton Street or on this diagonal property: https://www.google.com/.../@41.4048112.../data=!3m1!1e3...