Highland - Hardcoverby Dan Helpingstine (Author), Jim Roumbos (Author) In 1912, the Hammond Times boasted of available 10 , 20 , and 40 acre tracts "located on the Ridge Road." That newspaper piece helped sell these tracts as part of a developing area that had an agriculture base but was also part of a region on the verge of joining the Industrial Revolution. The announcement's predictions rang true and, in a sense, told of the development of a town called Highland,