1720s

18th century 3 dated mentions

1720s

1. 1720
   The machinery, honestly: the foreign-trade zone, corrected whole

   But FTZ 125, whose grantee is the St. Joseph County Airport Authority at South Bend, holds an Alternative Site Framework service area that covers this county: the FTZ Board's reorganization order (Order No. 1720, Federal Register, 8 November 2010) names the zone's service area as St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko…

   North Liberty

2. 1721
   Ox-Head Prairie, named for a head of monstrous size

   Charlevoix, camped on the portage on 17 September 1721, named Ox-Head Prairie for "the head of an ox of monstrous size" found there.

   South Bend

3. 1722–1794
   The two forts the spades cannot find

   The French built Fort St. Philippe des Miamis in 1722, a palisaded post garrisoned by as many as thirty men; General Wayne's men built the first Fort Wayne in the autumn of 1794, the post that gave the city its name.

   Fort Wayne