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From A Bailly Point of View


  • Porter County Museum 20 Indiana Avenue Valparaiso, IN, 46383 United States (map)

From a Bailly Point of View

Though Joseph Bailly looms large in the memory of Porter County as its first nonnative settler, the lives and work of three generations of Bailly women—Marie, Rose, and Frances—truly shaped the Bailly homestead and public perception of the family legacy.

The PoCo Muse believes objects tell stories, and our new featured exhibit, From a Bailly Point of View (expanded from a 2018 exhibit of the same name), looks closely at artifacts from our Bailly Family Collection to shed new light on their legacy in Porter County.

DID YOU KNOW? The first priest to say Mass at the Bailly Homestead, Fr. Stephen Badin, was also the first priest ordained in the United States.

Earlier Event: March 9
Art in Focus: March 9, 2026—Water Lilies—Monet’s Later Years–FREE EVENT
Later Event: March 12
Hillstrom Organ Works