Indiana History: Cities and Counties

Indiana through time

1. 1679La Salle's passage: December 1679 South Bend
2. 1679The Mission Era: Priests and Missionaries on the River, 1679–1857 Mishawaka
3. 1679The first passage, and the French century upriver Granger
4. 1679–1837The mission era whole: from the river missions to the first resident congregation Osceola
5. 1720The machinery, honestly: the foreign-trade zone, corrected whole North Liberty
6. 1721Ox-Head Prairie, named for a head of monstrous size South Bend
7. 1722–1794The two forts the spades cannot find Fort Wayne
8. 1763–1794Before the fort · the actions at Kekionga, 1763–1794 Fort Wayne
9. 1763The battles of the valley, each its own beat — and none of them here Mishawaka
10. 1775–1869Soldiers before the townships: the Revolution's and 1812's men who came later Granger
11. 1779–1820The traders before the bend had a post: Burnett's valley South Bend
12. 1787–1850First families of record: the Black Laws, the county's first settlement, and the Powell freedom case Osceola
13. 1800–1816The later forts Fort Wayne
14. 1801–1895The militia years: the county's standing companies, named from organization forward Granger
15. 1803–1839Elijah Lineback — the first family, in two tellings Lakeville
16. 1810–1882John D. DeFrees: the printer who started the city's press — and Colfax South Bend
17. 1810–1872Norman Eddy: the physician who carried the town to Washington Mishawaka
18. 1811–1876John A. Henricks: the founder whose biography never mentions the town Osceola
19. 1814–1874Richard Carlisle, the founder — and Professor Risley New Carlisle
20. 1819–1896Luigi Gregori: the Vatican painter who founded the department Notre Dame
21. 1821–1833The nations, tested one by one against this ground North Liberty
22. 1821The calls check — the one joint the text leaves open Indian Village
23. 1821The calls check — the one joint the text leaves open Roseland
24. 1830–1880First courts, first sheriff, first jail: the county's law, and the township's own officers Walkerton
25. 1850–1876By 1850 the map is private Fort Wayne
26. 1850The Black population series, 1850–2020 South Bend
27. 1850The population spine Mishawaka
28. 1850–1860The antebellum Black community, counted and named: twenty-nine in the county, none on this ground — and that is a count, not a silence Granger
29. 1850–2020The census series, 1850–2020 Osceola
30. 1850–2018Drainage — the Transformation, Its Instruments, and One Named Ditch Lakeville
31. 1851–1884The first store — C. W. N. Stephens, West York and Walkerton, 1851–1884 Walkerton
32. 1851The railroad of 1851 New Carlisle
33. 1851–todayThe Methodist Church, 1851 — North Liberty United Methodist Church Today North Liberty
34. 1854Edwin Douglass Eaton — born in the township, 1854 Indian Village
35. 1854–1855The Cholera Year and the Drained Lakes Notre Dame
36. 1875James Stuckey and Oliver P. Stuckey Roseland
37. 1900Arnold Gerberding — the hardware co-operative Fort Wayne
38. 1900–1938The Citizens' Trust and Savings Bank — the Citizens' National's companion South Bend
39. 1900The composition: the immigrant counts as the record gives them Mishawaka
40. 1900–1945The long rural hold Granger
41. 1900–todayThe country clubs individually, and the public courses stated plainly as public Osceola
42. 1900The town's own fair: the Walkerton exposition of 1900 Walkerton
43. 1900–1963The First National Bank of New Carlisle, 1900–1963 New Carlisle
44. 1900Three hundred and fifty people in 1900 Lakeville
45. 1901–1964The timetable pattern: the town on two station lists North Liberty
46. 1902–1906The St. Joseph Line Opens: 1903 to Niles, 1906 Through Roseland
47. 1903–2026The Buildings' Courses: Stone, Fire Risk and Second Lives Notre Dame
48. 1907The ground — glacial course and soils Indian Village
49. 1920–1948Indiana Service Corporation Fort Wayne
50. 1920–1929Consolidation at South Bend: the works in the 1920s South Bend
51. 1920West End State Bank to Valley American — the Wiekamp succession Mishawaka
52. 1920–1933Prohibition's places: no room named — the dry answer predates the law by a generation New Carlisle
53. 1920–todayThe Branch Roll: Nine Branches, and Where North Liberty Stands in the Building Line North Liberty
54. 1920The Steam Road Howard Named: the Michigan Central's South Bend Branch Roseland
55. 1920George Gipp and his death, 1920 Notre Dame
56. 1921–todayBig C Lumber: a county firm that put its headquarters on this ground Granger
57. 1921The custom trades: names from the 1921 directory; the count itself a named gap Osceola
58. 1922–2016Broadcast at its streets: WBAQ, WGAZ, and the WSBT moves Lakeville
59. 1929–2023Harold Rubert "Hal" Muncie: the superintendent who built the modern corporation Walkerton
60. 1940Two fields, two names: the settlement of 1941 Fort Wayne
61. 1940–1968The private bus era: 1940–1968 South Bend
62. 1940–2020Donald Heirman: standardization is not invention, printed exactly Mishawaka
63. 1940–2026The service clubs as clubs, dated: a Lions club, a Kiwanis club, and the Rotary's missing charter Granger
64. 1940–2009The bus era whole: the private successor, the public corporation, and Osceola's seventy-five-year blank Osceola
65. 1940–1970The first-plaza question, 1940–1970 Walkerton
66. 19401940: shoes, clothing and beauty on one street North Liberty
67. 1941–1945The Second World War: the County Figure Not Settled, and Why Lakeville
68. 1941–todayNotre Dame Federal Credit Union — Room 329 of the Main Building Notre Dame
69. 1946–2026The Legion: Post 297, named for James W. Swanson New Carlisle
70. 1955The 1955 page's unassigned fragments Roseland
71. 1960–1980The Scout: designed in Fort Wayne, built in Fort Wayne Fort Wayne
72. 1960–todayThe controller's desk: the city's purse South Bend
73. 1960Decline and remaking: the slide, the closings, the replacement anchors, the riverfront Mishawaka
74. 1960The Soap Box Derby at its peak: a national champion in 1960 — South Bend's boy, at a South Bend address; the Granger negative printed Granger
75. 1960The Soap Box Derby, with its peak named: Fredric Lake of South Bend, national champion, 1960 Osceola
76. 1960–2014Investigators and organizations: the local record the record supports Walkerton
77. 1960The laundry: the Modern Speed Wash, 103 W. Center, 1960 – and its ground's whole sequence North Liberty
78. 1962–todayTwo Townships, One Corporation — Union-North United, 1962 Lakeville
79. 1963–2026Today's office — 1st Source Bank, and the succession that is not yet proven New Carlisle
80. 1963First houses — none before 1963 Roseland
81. 1963–1987The Hesburgh Library and the Word of Life mural Notre Dame
82. 1980The shooting of Vernon Jordan · Fort Wayne in the first CNN broadcast Fort Wayne
83. 1980–todayThe Consent Decree: the Corporation's Institutional Course South Bend
84. 1980–1998Volleyball — the Steve Anderson dynasty: seven finals, three titles Mishawaka
85. 1980–2026Dynasty numbers as conventions: Penn's twenty-four, counted under a stated rule — and the resident coach's two Granger
86. 1980–2026Wrestling: one state champion, and the program's firsts New Carlisle
87. 1980–1987Mary DiStanislao and the Division I step, 1980–1987 Notre Dame
88. 1981North Liberty High School: The Shamrocks, and a Closing Nobody Dated North Liberty
89. 1982The council: five seats, four wards and the town at large Walkerton
90. 1982–2022The County in Numbers — the Verified Series Lakeville
91. 1982–todayBusiness U.S. 31: Created 1982, Still on the Road Roseland
92. 1984–2026The Osceola Music Festival: the town's one standing institution Osceola
93. 19901990–2026: the official course — census, county, fire territory, FEMA Indian Village
94. 2000–2008The Richard years, and the south side's wound Fort Wayne
95. 2000Households and income, in dated snapshots South Bend
96. 2000The merger of the two St. Josephs, 2000 Mishawaka
97. 2000–2026The dance schools of the corridor Granger
98. 2000–2003The Pleasureland case, 2000–2003: the inheritance, whole Osceola
99. 2000The peak, the plateau, and the boundary warning Walkerton
100. 2000–2026The clerk's line carried down — and the courts test New Carlisle
101. 2000–2002The pipeline at boundary size; the bust with nothing to take North Liberty
102. 2000The 2000 census's 1,809 — the count that was corrected away Roseland
103. 2000–2026The Modern Course: Lay Governance, Graduate Return and the Conboy Decade Notre Dame
104. 2002–todayThe festival test: none in Lakeville — and the county's festival, founded and lost Lakeville
105. 2010The clerk-treasurers: Schosker, Naragon, Jozwiak Indian Village
106. 20202020 · the George Floyd protests Fort Wayne
107. 2020South Bend today South Bend
108. 2020The rehabilitation hospital at Edison Lakes, 2020 Mishawaka
109. 2020Granger Community Church: the succession of 2020 Granger
110. 2020Composition, second run: race and Hispanic origin Osceola
111. 2020–2026The remaking: data centers, a battery plant, and a town deciding New Carlisle
112. 2020–2024The Veteran Population, Dated: Twenty-Six Lakeville
113. 2020Density, rank, and the metro stated exactly North Liberty
114. 2020The frame Indian Village
115. 2020The frame Roseland
116. 2020The Presidential Medal of Freedom: Lou Holtz, for the Notre Dame years Notre Dame
117. 2021–2026The second attempt: the consolidation of 2021 — carried out Walkerton

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