Editing Michiana Shores, Indiana (section)

==History==

The inland part of Michiana Shores was the site of the logging town of Corymbo in the 1860s and 1870s.{{sfn|Stodola|2003|p=115}}  Corymbo, located on the Michigan Central railroad, was home to a mixture of lumbermen and railroad employees.{{sfn|Stodola|2003|p=115}}  A post office was established there in 1861, but had been discontinued by 1880.{{sfn|Chapman|1880|p=860}}  The land was owned by the local Burgwald family, which sold it in the 1920s to the [[Long Beach, Indiana|Long Beach]] Land Company.{{sfn|Stodola|2003|p=115}}

The modern-day beach community began to be developed in the 1930s, when developers Orphie Gotto and Clarence Mathias began to build it as a log cabin town for vacationers.{{sfn|Stodola|2003|p=115}}  Many of the early residents were schoolteachers from Chicago.{{sfn|Stodola|2003|p=115}}  The town was incorporated in 1947.{{sfn|Stodola|2003|p=115}}