The town of Kingsford Heights and a few citizens have joined together to start, what they hope to be, a yearly event, the “Victory City Festival.”

Victory City, now known as Kingsford Heights, was built during World War II in an effort to support the war effort. Victory City was occupied by thousands of people that worked in the Kingsbury Ordinance Plant making and developing ammunitions for the war. People also worked at Allis Chalmers in La Porte making military vehicles. The Kingsbury Ordinance Plant (KOP) was the second highest ammunitions supplier in the United States during World War II. Victory City was designed by Eleanor Roosevelt, the President's wife. She named the streets and oversaw the project. When the war ended, the jobs at the Ordinance Plant also ended and the town that once held thousands of people began to disappear. The government then began to dismantle Victory City offering the homes to veterans at discounted prices and then began taking the homes out on trucks to other parts of the state.

In 1951 a few citizens that did not want to see the town disappear joined together and formed the Kingsford Corporation. These citizens purchased the land and the remaining homes from the government and went to Indianapolis Statehouse and had the town named Kingsford Heights in 1954.

The town since has remained around the same size holding about 1600 citizens. Much of the old Victory City is undeveloped but, we have not compromised the history of the town. Still today when land is sold and developed, the town keeps opening the same roads back up and keeps the original names in an effort to keep part of the town's history.

Kingsford Heights could not be found on the internet until 2001 when the federal government took the area off of its Top Secret listings. To celebrate the town's history and to remember those that served in our Armed Forces, we bring you the “Victory City Festival.”

Generously documented by Dennis Francis, Sheriff of Kingsford Heights