Time travel is a possibility at the Lake County Historical Society Museum.

The museum, housed in 4,000 square feet on the second floor of the Old Lake County Courthouse in downtown Crown Point, is filled with donations that go back to the 1800s when both Crown Point and Lake County were in their infancy.

Finding new homes for these museum treasures, including diaries from Civil War soldiers, an 1821 Gutenberg printing press and a symphonion music box and cabinet from 1890 that still plays, is now the job of Executive Director Diane Gora and some eight volunteers.

Gora herself is an unpaid volunteer.

“We were given notice on July 31 that we have until Dec. 31 to vacate the space,” Gora said.

Notice was given from the Lake Courthouse Foundation, owners of the courthouse, who couldn’t be

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