Place:Kingsbury, LaPorte, Indiana, United States

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NameKingsbury
TypeTown
Coordinates41.527°N 86.701°W
Located inLaPorte, Indiana, United States
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Kingsbury is a town in Washington Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, just northwest of the intersection of U.S. Route 35 and U.S. Route 6. The town was founded in 1835 and in the 1940s the Kingsbury Munitions plant was built for use during World War II where in one time it was targeted as one of the top 10 places the German Nazis wanted to attack mainly because all of the bombs being built there at the time, the plant closed after the Korean War. The population was 242 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Michigan City, Indiana-La Porte, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. Kingsbury at one point was a successful economic town, today the town is small and quiet consisting of a post office, a liquor store, a small furniture store, an Elevator, and Dillards Whole Sale Carpet. The town has its own fire department, KVFD (Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department), and its own church and cemetery, built in the 1830s.

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