Granger, Indiana · 20th century
1950s
18 dated events in 1950s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 18 dated mentions
1950s
- 1950–2026The end of farming here, measured: what the parcel file counts in November 2026
Set the measurement against the county frame of the first entry and the arc closes: the county went from 2,408 farms in 1950 to 547 in 2022 while holding about half its land in farms…
- 1952Granger Missionary Church: the Bethel students' plant of 1952
The ground's oldest Protestant congregation of the modern roll began, by its own account, just over the state line: "On Easter Sunday 1952, two Bethel College students began holding services in an old brick house near Edwardsburg, MI."
- 1952Case: 8 May 1952 — the neighbouring-city index case
The whole of this case is one line in the Air Force's own 1952 index, and it is printed whole: Mishawaka, Indiana — INSUFFICIENT DATA.
- 1952Case: 31 July – 2 August 1952 — the newspaper sky-watch
Ten days after the Kloth sighting and in the immediate wake of the Washington flap, the South Bend Tribune did what the era's newspapers did at the flap's height: on 31 July 1952 it appealed to the public for help in a two-hour saucer watch, and the watch the register's floor dates to 2 August 1952 put the county's…
- 1954–1981The suburban turn: rooftops first, and the first industrial seat
Granger's commercial era begins, as its parish history happens to document, with a land developer's arithmetic: in 1954 Kenneth Zook of Zook Realty of Elkhart donated the five-acre St. Pius X site on Fir Road while planning 270 homes within the parish bounds — the first hard number of the subdivision era in this record.
- 1954–2026The rescue, homeless and food set: two South Bend houses, a six-county food bank — and the one Granger point where the set touches this ground
Hope Ministries (the rescue mission of the set): Hope Ministries, South Bend — the mission house at 532 South Michigan Street, with its men's emergency shelter and residential programs at 432 South Lafayette Boulevard…
- 1954–2026The Toll Road: across the top in 1956, an interchange a generation late
Construction of the $280-million road began on 21 September 1954; the Commission's own 1955 report illustrates the start of work "at Sycamore Road in St. Joseph County," one township west of this frame.
- 1955–2012The Christian line: Harris Prairie Church of Christ
In December 1955 the South Bend Tribune carried the legal notice of the election of trustees of the Harris Prairie Church of Christ, the election to be held at the church in January 1956, with L. O. Longley named as trustee…
- 1955–2026Black Women's Organizing and the Sisters
The organizing that demonstrably serves this ground is seated in South Bend and county-wide in charter, its best-documented form the South Bend Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta: chartered December 3, 1955 at the LaSalle Hotel as Epsilon Mu Sigma by nine women out of a local Sorors Club…
- 1955–todayComics authorship, credited as literature
The comics test names Jerry Scott (born May 2, 1955, in South Bend), and the paper-route story at the checklist's heart verifies — with its geography graded in the open.
- 1956St. Pius X: the founding, 1936–1956
The parish was formally established in 1956, the year of the first Mass in the Fir Road church, beginning with 145 families.
- 1957Case: January 1957 — the next index year, opened
The register's floor opens the next index year after the flap years, and this section opened it: the Blue Book index and unknowns literature for 1957 were searched for a South Bend, Mishawaka or township entry in January 1957.
- 1957–1979The regulated era: four carriers in 1957, first jets in 1967
The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows four carriers serving South Bend, with weekday departures of North Central 10, United 9, Lake Central 6, and Trans World Airlines 3 — twenty-eight weekday departures at a two-runway county field.
- 1957–2024The scholarship stock: what the journals hold on this ground — ice, water, traders, and one road
Emma Lou Thornbrough's The Negro in Indiana (Indiana Historical Bureau, 1957) is the scholarly spine of the Underground Railroad branch — the monograph the branch's addendum names twice as settler, for the county's 1851 referendum count and its colonization answer.
- 1958The price: Paul Howe, 1958 — the named fatality, verified at record strength, in his own article
The dead, named: Paul Howe, 43, of Danville, Indiana, was killed during the 50-lap USAC National Midget feature at the South Bend Motor Speedway on Wednesday, 18 June 1958, after striking the fence, then flipping back onto the track and landing upside down.
- 1958–todayMary Frank Elementary School: the township era's surviving school
Mary Frank is the oldest standing school inside the CDP, and it began as Harris Township's own: erected in 1958 — the township era's last building on this ground, raised five years before the reorganization folded the township unit into Penn-Harris-Madison…
- 1959–1964The formation of Penn-Harris-Madison
The corporation that schools Granger was made by a statute and a sequence: Indiana's School Corporation Reorganization Act of 1959 (Acts of 1959, ch.
- 1959–2026Agricultural honors: the two townships' 4-H champions, at the fair record's strength
The 1959 record, from the county's farm paper: the county farm paper of July 24, 1959 carries Clay Township's name at the top of a county contest: twenty-seven girls of St. Joseph County entered the 4-H junior demonstration contest held at the Centre Township School on June 29, and Mary Cronin of Clay Township won it…