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Marktown is an historic district (United States) in East Chicago, Indiana.

History

Like Pullman, Chicago, Marktown was built by industry for its workers. In 1913, steel industrialist Clayton Mark purchased the 190 acre tract of land from Henry Clay Frick for $250,000,000 on a ten year mortgage.He began construction on a steel mill that would become Indiana Harbor Works in 1916 while concurrently building a 'model city' on a piece of property to the west of the mill. Mark commissioned renowned Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw to design an English garden city Tudor Revival styled village.