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Lakeville is an incorporated town in Union Township, in the south of St. Joseph County, Indiana, standing on either side of the Michigan Road — its Michigan Street — about eleven miles south of South Bend, on ground the Potawatomi ceded in 1828. It began not as a settler's farm but as a place of rest on the great highway, was platted in the 1850s around a tavern stand, carried on for two generations as the crossing of two railroads, both now removed, and was incorporated on 7 July 1902. Its 2020 census population is 879. This spine carries the town's course whole, from the first settlements of 1833 to the present month. The town's government is dug in the government section; the taking of its ground, instrument by instrument, in the land and tribes sections.
The frame: a town in Union Township, on the Michigan Road
Frame as of November 2026
The town in its frame. Lakeville is a town under Indiana law in Union Township, St. Joseph County, in the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area. Its federal identifiers are GNIS feature ID 2396705 and FIPS place code 18-41670…
The first settlements, 1833: on the Michigan road lands
Spring 1833 and after
The township was settled along the road. Howard (1907) states the frame in one sentence: "The first settlements in this township were on the Michigan road lands." The two county histories agree on the year, the first man, and the…
A place of rest on the great highway
1830s–1850s
Lakeville began as a station, not a farm. Howard's town section is plain about the origin: "Originally this was merely a place of rest and refreshment for the accommodation of travelers, merchants and others doing business along…
The plat's course: an addition on record before the original
1857–1859 and after
The record opens backwards. Howard's account of the plat is the only full one reached, and it carries an oddity this build prints rather than smooths: "The original plat of the town, consisting of Lots A. B. C. D. E. & F., on the…
The town Chapman counted, 1880
1880
A large business, although they have no railroad. Chapman's Union Township chapter carries the village whole in one passage, and it is printed whole because it is the town's first complete portrait: "The township contains but one…
The road: Michigan Road, plank road, U.S. 31, SR 931
1829–2014
The town is the road, at four dates. The Michigan Road was Indiana's first great north–south highway, built with the proceeds of the road-land grant of the 1826 treaty (the land section carries the grant): surveyed 1829, passable…
Two railroads, crossing in town, both gone
1883–1974 and after
Lakeville was a two-railroad town. The railroad test for this town returns a documented positive — the opposite of the pointer answer its size might suggest. The first line was the Vandalia's: Howard's Union section says that…
The school ground: one-room schools to a listed landmark
1836–1991
The township taught from 1836; the town's school became its landmark. The township's first school-house (1836) and its subscription school stand in the Chapman article above. At compilation strength — flagged as such, its…
The twentieth-century course, at frame strength
1902–2026
Incorporation, a bank at pointer, and the long after-railroad course. The town incorporated on 7 July 1902 (the government section digs the act). Its bank stands here at pointer strength only, as the banks leg owns the facts, and…
The census line, 1910–2020
Decennial, whole
The town in twelve countings. The town's first separate decennial return reached is 1910; Howard's figure for the unincorporated town in 1900 is 350, and it is flagged below rather than folded into the series. The line, from the…
The modern frame: the town today
November 2026
A small town mid-project, on its own record. Lakeville today, from the town's own published record (its site, crawled November 2026), is a three-member-council town centred on Michigan Street — SR 931, the old Michigan Road …
Two beats the Story of Lakeville section's own pass left open are dug here from the located record: the end of the principal chief whose refusal and removal the cession cascade in The Land and Native Nations already carry whole, and the names of the town's present officeholders, which the Story of Lakeville section's closing frame never printed. Conflicts print whole, never merged.
The death of the principal chief: Menominee, 15 April 1841
c. 1791 – 15 April 1841 · the removal record and the Sugar Creek parish register tradition
The cession cascade has its closing beat: the chief who would not sign died in exile in Kansas, two and a half years after the removal. Menominee, the Potawatomi chief and religious leader whose village stood at Twin Lakes — the…
The closing beat, with its holders named
As of November 2026 · the town's minutes of 5 January 2026 and 15 May 2025; the State's salary record for 2025
The town the census line counts is governed, at the build's close, by Lori Kelly, April Hathaway, Dean Rouch and Jacqueline Skwiercz — and the Story of Lakeville section now says so. The banked spine's census line runs whole from…