Granger, Indiana · 19th century
1880s
24 dated events in 1880s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 24 dated mentions
1880s
- 1880Chapman's Natural History of the County, 1880
C. Chapman & Co. of Chicago in 1880 — the subscription county history of the settlement generation, its text now held whole at the Internet Archive (Cornell University Library copy).
- 1880The lost birds: prairie chicken and passenger pigeon, Chapman's warnings with their endings
Chapman saw both of these endings coming and printed the warnings in 1880. Of the prairie chicken he wrote the sentence that heads this section's bird record: "The chiefest among the Grouse family is the prairie chicken, which, if not carefully protected, must ere long follow the wild turkey, never to return."
- 1880The distillers as a searched negative, with its date span printed: 1880–2011, extended to November 2026
The search runs from the first record that could name a distiller on this ground — Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), whose township chapters were searched for tavern, inn, hotel, brewery, distillery and winery entries and named none for Harris or Clay…
- 1880–1884The directory houses: the gazetteer long tail, swept — a saloon and a livery, and no hotel
The 1880-81 edition carries Granger at the record's smallest size: a post-office station on the Grand Trunk railroad just south of the Michigan state line, in Harris Township, nine miles northeast of the South Bend courthouse, with a Presbyterian church — and, in the gazetteer's own summary, the station "of only two families."
- 1880–1907The dated census: Chapman 1880, the 1883 directory, Howard 1907 — and the two townships' negative, read whole
Chapman, 1880 — Mishawaka's own section. Chapman gives Mishawaka a headed "SECRET SOCIETIES" section (pp. 796–797), and it is short: "The Freemasons and Odd Fellows have a fine, well-furnished hall in the third story of the Phoenix Block."
- 1880–1907Knights of Pythias whole: the lodge, the Uniform Rank, and the Sisters' temple — named where the record names one
In 1880 Chapman could say only that "There is also a lodge of the Knights of Pythias, of recent organization in Mishawaka" — no number, no name.
- 1880–1907The assessment-insurance alphabet: tents, hives, camps, groves and courts as a benefit machine — and the Grange line
The biography names no grange, no number and no seat — an officer's fact without a seat — so it does not seat a grange in Clay, and the banked negative stands on its own terms; it does prove a Clay Township farmer holding Grange office in 1880, in some grange within riding distance.
- 1880–1961The origin ground: the fairgrounds course and the oval inside the amusement park — South Bend's, both dated, and a Granger-side negative stated plainly
Playland Park, bounded by the St. Joseph River, Ironwood Drive and Lincolnway East in South Bend, began in 1880 as a trolley park called Springbrook Park (one source spells it Springbook).
- 1880–1961Amusement Grounds Across the Line
(Its founding dates conflict in the record and both print: the park's published history gives the park's creation as 1880, while the Clio and county-library strands date the streetcar company's Springbrook opening to 1899.)
- 1880–2012Works first: the historians of this ground, carried by their bibliographies
C. Chapman & Co., 1880; 986 pages in the digitised copy). The title page itself teaches the grading lesson this section runs on: “Chapman” is the publishing house, Chas.
- 1880–2026The collectors and their stock: who wrote the old settlers down, and what survives of the telling
The first is the Chapman history of 1880 — History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chas. C. Chapman & Co.), written a generation from the events, when men who had cleared the prairie were still alive to be interviewed.
- 1880–2026Ethnic and immigrant club bands as a training system: the test
The test for this ground was run in Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), societies chapters read for Clay and Harris township entries, and in the church and club records reached through the build's Religion and culture passes: no Italian, German, Polish, or other ethnic club band, lodge band, or parish band is named for…
- 1880–2026The memory-keepers: who wrote the place down
The roll runs: the Chapman county history of 1880, whose township chapters are the first written Granger; Timothy Edward Howard's History of St. Joseph County of 1907, the judge-historian's two volumes, still the Story of Granger section of every later account including this build's…
- 1880–todayThe dairy line: a university's milk, a township creamery share
Chapman's 1880 sentence fixes the first fact: Notre Dame's Harris Township farm raised "their beef and their milk supply for the University" — a dairy herd kept on drained marsh pasture, milking for an institution's table a few miles west, a generation before the township had a creamery to sell to.
- 1881–1993The second railroad: the Big Four's Granger–Niles line, 1882–1993
The Elkhart, Niles and Lake Michigan Railroad built south from Niles, Michigan, to a connection with the Grand Trunk at Granger — the Niles History Center dates the building to 1882…
- 1882–1890Horse cars first: the South Bend Railway Company of 1885 and the Van Depoele electric experiment
Marlette's Electric Railroads of Indiana (1959) supplies the course: a first Indiana electrification attempt at South Bend in 1882 , when a car moved only a few feet before its current dissipated into the ground…
- 1882–2023Building-and-loans, and the four credit unions as separate histories
The Polk South Bend City Directory for 1921 prints the county seat's building-and-loan roll under its own heading, and it is a real stratum: the Building & Loan Association of South Bend , 216 W. Washington, incorporated July 5, 1882, capital stock $3,000,000…
- 1882–2026The hospital question: none inside the line — and the one across it
That pattern is the era before 2019, stated whole: for a century and a third, the hospitals of this ground's people stood where the county's medicine had always stood — St. Joseph's, the county's first hospital, in South Bend from 1882, and Epworth Hospital from 1894, Memorial Hospital from 1945 in succession…
- 1883–2026"Founded in 1883": the life of a date that nobody celebrated
The telling: this place was founded in 1883 — a date firm enough, in the modern summaries, to stand as the first fact of its history, and the warrant for a centennial in 1983 that the Arts file of this build looked for and could not find: no performance, no festival, no observance of any kind stands in the record it…
- 1883–2026The clothiers' courses: who sold dress, era by era, and what replaced them
First era, the custom-and-dry-goods town: the 1883 South Bend directory carries dressmakers and tailors by name in its alphabetical list and a millinery and dress-goods house advertising silks, dress goods, caps and millinery received direct from manufacturers.
- 1883–2026The ethnic trades at scale: meat and sausage in the directories, and the cookbook that is not there
Farr's South Bend directory for 1883 gives the trade its own business-review heading — “BUTCHERS. The butchering business is quite a feature in this city.
- 1884–1885The first forms: the village trade of 1884–85, named whole — and the bank and the market, at the end of their records
The station village, from the settler itself: Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1884–85 — one of the two settling sources the banked file names for this item — carries Granger whole, in a single entry, and the entry is the village's trade at its first full printing.
- 1885–2026The opera-house test, run by name, and the halls
The county's opera house stands in South Bend and is boundary-told in one line: the Oliver Opera House, opened 1885 on Main Street by the Oliver plow family, James and J. D. Oliver, at a cost of $200,000 and reputed among the finest opera houses in the United States, its scenery painted by the Chicago Opera House's…
- 1885–2026The Catholic orders as a suite: Knights of America, Foresters, the Legion and Columbia lines — and the Knights of Columbus on Granger ground
In South Bend: Catholic Order of Foresters, St. Edward Court No. 1424; Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1, founded January 1885; Catholic Knights of America, St. Paul's Branch No. 408, founded September 1885, and St. Boniface Branch No. 701, with St. Mary's Commandery, Uniform Rank of the C.K. of A.…