Emerson High School Bearing the name of transcendentalist writer, lecturer, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson High School was Gary’s first high school and the first public school in the...
Archive - 2000's Abandoned
Gary Screw and Bolt Company The Gary Screw and Bolt Company was founded in 1911 by a group of executives of the Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Company. It opened in the summer of 1912 with its first 100...
Horace Mann High School Following the success of Gary School Superintendent William Wirt’s Gary Plan at Emerson High School, Wirt drew up plans to establish four schools over the next two...