Lakeville, Indiana
Timeline
235 dated events, in order. Each gives the passage that dates it and a link to its full account.
19th century 85 dated mentions
1800s
- 1803–1839Elijah Lineback — the first family, in two tellings
Elijah Lineback, born 1803, of German origin, came with his wife Elizabeth (née Little) and child on horseback through the wilderness — she "was frequently thrown from her horse while on the journey, but never hurt the baby"…
1810s
- 1816–1850The reserved sections inside the plat: school, swamp, and the county purchase
The school section came first in law: Indiana's Enabling Act of 1816 granted section 16 of every township to the inhabitants of that township for the use of schools, so Section 16 of Township 36 North, Range 2 East — a mile-square two sections north of the townsite's southern row…
- 1816–1851The 1831 Bond Law — the Frame Samuel Huggart Bought Under
Indiana prohibited slavery in 1816; it did not confer civil equality.
- 1816–1881Andrew Huggart: the brother who farmed it
Andrew Huggart was born in Virginia in 1816, learned the shoemaker's trade, moved at twenty to Dayton and afterwards to Miami County, Ohio, and in 1839 married Jane Clark, a native of Amherst County, Virginia.
1820s
- 1821–1836The nation-by-nation test completed: Ottawa, Chippewa, and the Potawatomi chiefs of this valley
The Ottawa test: the Ottawa appear on this county's paper in the Treaty of Chicago of 1821, a joint instrument with the Chippewa and Potawatomi, and in Howard's quoted valley summary — the Potawatomi "with their cousins, the Ottawas and the Chippewas, once possessed and occupied this vast territory."
- 1826–1832The treaty strip and the survey: a hundred feet wide, a section a mile
By Article 3 of the treaty of 16 October 1826 — the same instrument family whose cessions the land build plots — the Potawatomi ceded, in the text as the Marshall County history prints it verbatim: "a strip of land commencing at Lake Michigan and running thence to the Wabash river, 100 feet wide, for a road, and also…
- 1828The taking: the Treaty of St. Joseph, 20 September 1828 — the second cession
The townsite was ceded by the second cession of the Potawatomi treaty concluded at the Missionary Establishments upon the St. Joseph on 20 September 1828.
- 1829–1863Colonization — the Offer, the Machinery, and the County's Answer
The Indiana Colonization Society was organised at Indianapolis in 1829 as an auxiliary of the American Colonization Society.
- 1829–2014The road: Michigan Road, plank road, U.S. 31, SR 931
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 by 1834, "completed" in 1837, at a cost of $242,000 (Indiana Historical Bureau marker text), opened a hundred feet wide and…
1830s
- 1832–1836The extinguishment sequence for the reserves, dated step by step
Step one is creation: the Treaty of Tippecanoe of 26 October 1832 reserved tracts by acreage for named bands, among them twenty-two sections for the bands of Menominee, Notawkah, Muckkahtahmoah and Pepinawah at Twin Lakes, in present Marshall County, the reserve the land-records file places in Township 33 North…
- 1832–1840William L. Earl — the tavern-keeper the town grew around
The Atlas: in June 1832 William L. Earl "came out prospecting from Detroit", concluded with Alanson M. Hurd that the St. Joseph valley near Mishawaka held iron ore, and determined to make a town — the St. Joseph Iron Works, laid out in July 1833 (Howard: "Laid out and surveyed for Earl and Hurd"), its tavern "called 'Earl's'".
- 1833The 1833 cohort: Henderson, the Rectors, Gardner
John Henderson came with his family in 1833 — to Section 25 in Chapman, Section 26 in the Atlas, the conflict registered — and stands at the head of the township's civil order: elected justice of the peace at the first election in April 1836, and named by the Atlas as both first justice of the peace and first postmaster of the township.
- 1833–1841The settler roll, whole
1833: Elijah Lineback (Section 35, Chapman/Atlas); John Henderson (25 Chapman, 26 Atlas); John, Jacob and Mark Rector (Section 1); John Gardner (Section 3, Atlas and Howard; absent from Chapman).
- 1833–1842The speculation era and its bust, at the strength this ground allows
The frame is dated: the La Porte land office opened in 1833 and the first district sale ran that August, in the national land boom that peaked in 1836; Indiana borrowed for its internal-improvement system in the same years; the Panic of 1837 broke the boom, and the state's works collapsed into the 1840s.
- 1834–1835The building through this county, and the course through town
Chief credit, says Howard, belongs to one man — and the county section was finished in 1834 and 1835. Howard's roads chapter (Vol. 1, Ch.
- 1834–1836The Moon brothers and Michael Hupp
6 March 1816, Wayne County, of English origin, a Quaker's grandson) first came to the county in 1834 from Warren County "walking all the way", arrived with nine dollars, worked for John Rush on the Michigan road at fourteen dollars a month while Rush entered his land for him, worked summers here and wintered in Warren…
- 1834–1872Samuel Huggart: the 1834 purchase
On 11 September 1834 Samuel applied at the La Porte land office for a patent on eighty acres — the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 29, T36N R2E — and paid $100, or $1.25 an acre, the minimum price for the minimum purchase under the federal land law of 1820.
- 1834–1890Andrew and Samuel Huggart — the profile
Samuel Huggart (b. c. 1804, Virginia) made the settlement's founding act — a federal land purchase at the La Porte land office on 11 September 1834, eighty acres in Section 29, patented 20 March 1837 — and appears in no county history: the only Samuel the works know is his nephew Samuel M., born 1852.
- 1834–2024The Ethnic Cultures, One by One, and the Latino Test at Census Strength
The Huggart Settlement — the Black culture of the township, carried at owner strength in Black History and at owner-pointer here by this section's own discipline: Section 29, founded on Samuel Huggart's 1834 application, at its greatest about 1880, gone from the ground by the 1890s, and kept by Karst's scholarship…
- 1836The roadside stands: Earl's Tavern, and the search for a second
The township's first election was held at Earl's tavern in April 1836, thirty votes polled (Chapman). The stand predates the plat by two decades; the town's own plan narrative remembers the place's first name as "Earl Town," at narrative strength, credited to the town's historian.
- 1836–1900The Township Schoolhouse: A Log School-House in 1836
Union Township's first school-house was a log structure built in 1836 on the corner of James Moon's farm, and its first school was a subscription school of about twenty scholars.
- 1836–1907The officeholder lines, cross-carried
The civil line begins at Earl's tavern: April 1836, all the voters present, thirty votes polled, John Henderson and Jacob Rector justices of the peace, one supervisor elected — "Previous to this they had gone to South Bend to vote."
- 1836–1917The Hotels — Shirk to Cordary to Deed, and the Forrest Hotel's Missing Keeper
The tavern frame stands in the Story of Lakeville section (Earl's, 1836, the Michigan Road rest-station origin) and is not re-told here.
- 1836–1991The school ground: one-room schools to a listed landmark
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.
- 1838–1840Removal: the column that started south of here and marched south
The forced removal of Chief Menominee's band began at the Twin Lakes reserve in Marshall County, south of this town: after General John Tipton's militia surrounded the chapel gathering of 30 August 1838, the column — about 859 Potawatomi in the Citizen Potawatomi Nation's own account…
1840s
- 1841–todayThe County Fair's Lakeville Years, and the Market Line
The fair's course and grounds belong to South Bend's file; the dated pointer line runs: organised fairs from 1841 (the fair's own history page); the Agricultural Society reorganised 15 March 1858; the county bought 40 acres on 20 April 1881 between South Bend and Mishawaka…
- 1843–1958Sisters as workforce: the county frame, and the township's silence
Four Sisters of the Holy Cross joined Father Edward Sorin at Notre Dame in 1843, the year after the founding; their motherhouse stood at St. Mary's, on the St. Joseph River in this county, from 1855.
- 1845–1854Porter-Rea Cemetery: the burying ground
Its own record prints its two dates whole, for they answer different questions: the DNR dates the ground to 1845 , when nine-year-old Emma Porter was the first person buried there…
- 1847–1856The County's Documented Case — Powell
David and Lucy Powell and their four sons fled Kentucky in October 1847 and settled near Cassopolis, Michigan; at midnight on 27 September 1849 their claimant seized Lucy and three sons…
- 1849Power changing state, dated: steam 1849, and the current that came by co-operative
Step two, steam: dated 1849, Earl and Gilmore's steam saw mill, and still the mills' stated power at the 1889 directory point; steam is this ground's first industrial power, not its second.
- 1849–1889The power source measured: no fall, no race, no dam — steam from the first mill
Every mill the record gives is steam: Earl and Gilmore's steam saw mill of 1849, the township's first; the Slough brothers' steam saw mill in Section 19; Coquillard's mill worked from 1854; Shidler's saw mills after it.
- 1849–1889The first industrial system whole: timber, steam and the clearing of a township
The prime mover, from 1849, was steam — boilers fired in a country where the fuel was the same forest being cleared, so the works consumed their own raw material twice over.
- 1849–1917The Mills' Full Course — Steam, Water, and the Six Mill Firms of 1889
The 1875 Atlas's Union Township directory prints "Earl & Gilmore" among the township's business entries with a steam saw mill dated 1849.
1850s
- 1850–1851The penalty suit and the Supreme Court: Norris v. Crocker, 1851
322 (5 McLean 92), Circuit Court, District of Indiana, May Term 1850, Justice John McLean presiding and charging the jury on Prigg lines; verdict for Norris of $2,856 .
- 1850–2018Drainage — the Transformation, Its Instruments, and One Named Ditch
The state instrument story stands at county class: the Swamp Land Act of 1850 ceded swamp lands to the states; Indiana's ambitious 1869 drainage law authorized the Kankakee Valley Draining Company, which met bitter landowner opposition, dissolved, and saw the law repealed…
- 1851–1852Article XIII (1851) — Text, Statewide Vote, and the County Count That Does Not Survive
Article XIII of Indiana's 1851 Constitution (§1), carried whole: contracts with any person coming in violation of §1 are void, and whoever employs such a person or "in any way encourages" them to remain is fined ten to five hundred dollars (§2); all fines under the article are appropriated "to Colonization purposes" (§3)…
- 1851–1893The Disabilities at Settlement Size, and the Repeal Course Whole
The 1851 Constitution confined suffrage to white males and said so outright (Art. II, §5: "No Negro or Mulatto shall have the right of suffrage").
- 1851–1920Suffrage — the State Course, with a Correction; the Township an Honest Negative
Indiana's course: Amanda Way called the state's first women's rights convention at Winchester in 1851 — the same year the white male electorate voted Article XIII in.
- 1854–1889Ground succession: the mill ground that carries two names, and the residue
The traced case is Coquillard's mill ground: a mill built and run from the summer of 1854 to about 1864 by A. W. Shidler for Alexis Coquillard — the township's French name as proprietor, a hired builder as operator.
- 1857–1859The plat: Lots A–F, and no dedicator named
The original plat, "consisting of Lots A. B. C. D. E. & F., on the west side of the Michigan road, is first shown on record as lying north of and adjoining Coquillard's addition to the town…
- 1857–1859The Paper First — Original Plat and Additions
Coquillard's Addition was platted 18 August 1857 by Alexis T., Alexis, and Frances C. Coquillard — an addition on the record two years before the original plat; its ground character then or now is not separately documented (a named gap at character strength; the 1875 Atlas's Lakeville plat at p. 40 is a settler).
- 1857–1917The Professional Roster — Four Physicians in Polk, Three in Chapman, and the Attorneys Who Aren't There
Dr. Robert Moore came to Lakeville after his marriage of 19 March 1857 and, in Howard's words, "for forty-two years he has actively engaged in the practice of medicine" (d.
- 1858–2022Orchards, Mechanisation, and the Farmers' Institutions
The St. Joseph County Agricultural Society was reorganised on 15 March 1858 under the act of 17 February 1852; its first fair on the new grounds ran 28–30 September 1858 (the fair article below carries the grounds).
1860s
- 1861Claim 1 — Palmer's Olive Branch Sawmill: Documented Purchase, Claimed Rescue
He bought the Olive Branch sawmill on 28 January 1861 (Deed Record Book AB, pp. 425–26, via Karst) — the grantor is not named in Karst's footnote as read, a named gap whose settler is the deed itself.
- 1861–1865The Civil War: Company K, and the Township's Men
The regiment the company served in was organised at Indianapolis in the late summer of 1861 and mustered 27 September 1861; it served with the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland — Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign — and mustered out 2 December 1865.
- 1861–1865The Civil War at Home: the Subscription, the Draft, and the Missing Total
In April 1861, before the township had a company, it had a committee.
- 1861–1889The intermediate-goods test: the town sold lumber — the means of everybody else's building
The mills article carries the trade at work: in 1861 Christian R. Fogle hauled lumber from Adam Shidler's mill near Lakeville to South Bend for a year — a township mill supplying the county seat's building trade, three decades before the railroad.
- 1862Below the Listing Threshold — Hawes, 1862–63
G. W. Hawes' Indiana State gazetteer and business directory, for 1862 and 1863 (p. 185) gives the town a bare header only — "A post village of St. Joseph county, 10 miles south from South Bend, and about 135 miles north from Indianapolis" — with no trades list, no physicians, and no postmaster named.
- 1863–1875Booster cartography: the map as advertisement, named as persuasion
The 1863 Stokes map is the type specimen: a cadastral wall map sold by subscription to the county it depicts, carrying views of residential, public and commercial buildings — the subscribers' own houses and works, drawn as honours — with its population and distance tables making the county's case for itself.
- 1863–2026The working street map, as a dated series at the strength reached
The run: 1863, the town's inset plan in the Stokes county map, the first dated street picture; 1875, the town plat in the Higgins, Belden atlas, the plat read lot for lot in the land-records file under its 1859 recording…
- 1865–2015Boards, officers, and the county department: the succession at reached strength
South Bend's first city council, on 12 June 1865, elected Dr. I. N. Green, Clement Studebaker and Norman Eddy to the city's Board of Health (Chapman, 1880).
- 1866–1936The Grand Army: Seven Posts in the County, None of Them Lakeville's
Auten Post's own start prints in two forms that stand unmerged: the state tables give 1879–1936+, while the post's camp history carries the post as organised in 1866 under the order's earlier arrangements — a first county post chartered three years before the department reorganised…
- 1867–1880Lakeville Lodge No. 353, F&AM — Chartered 1867, Ten Charter Members Named by Chapman
Lakeville Lodge No. 353, Free and Accepted Masons, was chartered in 1867; Chapman names its ten charter members, and the lodge stood at about fifty-two members by 1880.
- 1867–1896Collecting before there was a museum: the society of 1867 and the refounding of 1895
Steps toward a historical society for the county were taken at South Bend as early as 1867: a first meeting on 26 October 1867, the organisation completed on 2 November 1867, with meetings following.
1870s
- 1871–1885Van Lieu's Drug and Hardware Store — from 5 July 1871
His sketch of Alpheus O. Van Lieu (born 19 May 1849 in Tipton County, Tennessee; came to this county in January 1867) states it in the man's own record: " July 5, 1871, he engaged in the drug business in Lakeville … He is now doing a good business in drugs and hardware.
- 1873–1994The founding decade's firsts, and the county-name turn of 1990
1873: a reading room on Michigan Street, the South Bend Library and Reading Room Association. 1888: the Board of Education's resolution takes the library public.
- 1873–todayA South Bend Library, Renamed for a County
The system behind the branch began as a South Bend reading room in 1873, opened as the South Bend Public Library in 1889, and took the county's name in 1990 — a rename this article keeps separate from the county-wide service it never made.
- 1875The Union Church of 1875, the Turkey Creek Society, and the Township's Church Names
In 1875 the citizens of the township's northeast built a church for everybody: "regardless of sect," Chapman writes, they "erected a union church house in 1875.
- 1875The 1875 Atlas Name-Detached Block, Whole
In the 1875 Atlas's Union Township directory (pp. 90–91), between the attached A–B head and the attached R–W tail, the text layer carries some fifty-two rows whose name column is detached from the business column; the surnames fall in the C–Q alphabetical range by position.
- 1875–1880The Saloon Keepers — an 1875 "Saloon Keeper," Glassour, Walters, and Then None
The 1875 Atlas lists a Lakeville "Saloon Keeper" whose name the surviving OCR cannot recover — its settler is named for the record: the atlas page images at pages 84 and 90–91.
- 1875–1917The Saloons — Three Keepers in the Directories, None in the County History
The 1875 Atlas's Union directory carries a "Saloon Keeper" at Lakeville — the trade is legible in its scrambled columns; the keeper's name is not recoverable from the OCR text (settler: the atlas page images, Union directory pp. 84, 90–91).
- 1875–1917The Dry-Years Fight at the Strength the Record Reaches
The commerce first, at the strength the banked saloons article already proves and this section adopts as its foundation: a saloon keeper stands in the 1875 Atlas's Union directory (name unrecoverable from the OCR text; settler the atlas page images); Polk 1880–81 names Glassour Charles, saloon…
- 1875–1917The Ground the Trade Stood On — Blacksmiths, a Wagonmaker, Two Liveries
The 1875 Atlas's Union directory (at list strength; its columns OCR-scrambled) carries blacksmith entries including one at Lakeville in section 1 — settled in the county 1852, from Chautauqua County, New York — and a cooper ("Farmer and Cooper," Lakeville P.O.).
- 1875–1920The Brewer Test — Negative, 1836–1920, at Directory Strength
The 1875 Atlas's Union Township directory , read in full for this section, carries farmers, merchants, blacksmiths, a cooper — and no brewer.
- 1875–2026Distillers, Rectifiers, and the Modern Era — Negative, with the Settler Named
The negative therefore stands at directory + federal-list strength for 1875–1920 — strong for a licensed, bonded trade, silent on anything smaller or unlicensed, about which this section says nothing at all.
- 1875–2026Undertakers, Whole — the Trade with No Heading, 1875 to the Present
In 1875 the trade stands detached: "Farmer, Undertaker, and Justice of the Peace" (Warren Co. Ohio, settled 1836, Sec.
- 1875–2026Ice and Laundries — Tested Hard, Not Found
No ice line appears in the 1875 Atlas detached block, in Chapman's sketches, or in any Polk edition read; the classic Union Township lake-ice trade does not verify for Lakeville's lakes at the strengths searched.
- 1878The Manuel Thread — a Huggart Settlement Trustee
Chapman states this about H. A. Manuel: he was one of the five trustees of the Olive Branch United Brethren church building project of 1878, with Joseph Shuppert, John H. Bennett, W. Lower, and Rev. N. F. Surface, while John Todd was pastor.
- 1878One Building or Two? Olive Branch, 1878
Three carriers describe an 1878 church built at Olive Branch, and they do not agree — the question prints whole and unmerged.
1880s
- 1880The 1880 Fish List — and the Sturgeon That Is Not in It
That absence is the baseline for this section's great-fish question: whatever the St. Joseph River carried at the county's north end, the county historian's 1880 fish fauna for the county's waters — the township's lakes and the Yellow River among them — has no sturgeon in it, and no later carrier reached adds one for these waters.
- 1880No Rookery of Record, and the Species Baseline Stays a Named Gap
What stands is the county frame entire: the 1880 quadruped, bird, and fish lists, the restoration arcs, and the lakes' surveyed fish printed in this history — a county fauna within which the township's own list has never been separately written.
- 1880The town Chapman counted, 1880
The same chapter records the township's first school-house — a log structure built in 1836 on the corner of James Moon's farm, its first school taught in the winter of 1836–'7 by James Roberson of South Bend to about twenty scholars as a subscription school…
- 1880–1875Before the studio: the itinerant and main-street camera test, to 1880
The directory negative begins in 1880; this test pushes the question back through the town's first half-century, and the camera does not appear there either.
- 1880–1885Founders who lost their companies: the Swezey and Van Lieu endings
C. J. Swezey — Charles J. Swezey, general store, postmaster in 1880–81, formerly postmaster and trustee in the histories' line — stands in the 1880–81 bench with the town's first full trade roster and is gone by 1882–83, his store replaced in print by Reed & Shaneover's.
- 1880–1907The Township's Own Ground — What Chapman and Howard Saw
In 1880 the south-central township still held "a good deal of low and useless land," fast disappearing; along the east runs a ridge of "mostly a black, sandy soil" with "some very fine farms" along the Turkey Creek road; around Pleasant and Riddle's lakes — the township's two surviving lakes…
- 1880–1917No tannery, no market house: the two firsts that were never here
Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1880–81, the first gazetteer of the town's era, prints Lakeville whole: "Union township, St. Joseph county… some 150 inhabitants, 10 miles south of South Bend… two churches — Methodist and Christian — daily stage to South Bend, fare 50c, and Plymouth, fare 75c.
- 1880–1917The Gazetteers' Sentences — "Wood, Lumber and Grain Are Marketed"
Polk's 1880–81 entry fixes the pre-rail geography: the town stands ten miles south of South Bend — the county seat and banking town — on a daily stage route, and the gazetteer's shipment direction for the town is South Bend…
- 1880–1917C85 — the Physicians of 1880: Polk's Four Against Chapman's Three
Chapman's side, first-hand: his History of St. Joseph County (Chicago, 1880; preface dated December 1880), Union Township chapter, village passage (p. 951), counts the village's trades in kinds…
- 1881Two obituaries, eleven days apart — and the "first colored man" line
The South Bend Tribune of 1 October 1881, under the head "Death of Andrew J. Huggard," called him "one of the most industrious and conscientious men we ever met" and stated, as the Bureau's review quotes it, "he was, we believe, the first colored man to run for office in this county ."
- 1882–1884Building the Vandalia: the route fight and the phased construction, 1882–1884
In 1882 the McKeen syndicate that owned the Terre Haute & Logansport determined to extend its road from Logansport to South Bend, sixty-seven miles, on grades no steeper than 26.4 feet to the mile with sixty-pound steel rails.
- 1889–1989The long narrowing as a removal ledger, assembled line by line
The lines, dated as the carriers date them: the mill cluster of 1889 — six firms at the directory point — thins through the Polk rosters that follow, Shidler's listing gone by 1884–85, the cluster's later course a fade rather than a closure date, no carrier printing a last mill; the artisan row of the gazetteer village…
1890s
- 1890The Huggart Settlement's School — Olive Branch
Karst adds that the last school building at Olive Branch was constructed in June 1890 and later served as a farm shed, and that Andrew Huggart was superintendent of a union Sunday school at Olive Branch for many years.
- 1890–1964The Wabash Fourth District: the Montpelier & Chicago, 1890–1893
The building company filed its articles with Indiana on 28 February 1890 as the Montpelier & Chicago Railroad Company; the engineer George S. Morison reported to the Wabash directors on 1 June 1891 on the proposed extension from near Montpelier, Ohio…
- 1897–19071898: A Call for Consolidation, Not a Lakeville Act
What it carries is this: State Superintendent of Public Instruction David Geeting first called for the centralization of rural schools in 1898, citing graded schools, better teachers, improved buildings, and cost reductions (the nomination citing the Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1897-8 , pp. 35 and 529)…
- 1898–1976The Vandalia succession: 1898, 1905, the Panhandle consolidation, and the lease of 1921
In 1898 the line was sold and reorganised as the Terre Haute and Logansport Railway Company (the federal filing's history, read first-hand).
20th century 79 dated mentions
1900s
- 1900Three hundred and fifty people in 1900
Howard writes that "the population, in 1900, had reached three hundred and fifty."
- 1901–1918Not Carnegie — a Tested Negative, and the County's Real One
Indiana's Carnegie grants ran 1901–1918 (156 grants, buildings completed to 1922, on the State Library's own blog), and Lakeville's first public library of any kind found in this research opened in 1990…
- 1902Incorporation: by order of the board of county commissioners, 7 July 1902
"Lakeville became an incorporated town by order of the board of county commissioners, July 7, 1902" (Howard, 1907, closing line of his Lakeville section, read first-hand).
- 1902Annexation — a Closing Synthesis That Is Honestly a Gap
Lakeville was incorporated 7 July 1902 by order of the board of county commissioners — Howard's closing line for the town is the whole of his statement on it; the variants print whole in the government file (an EPA profile's "1905"; a directory's "created in 1901"), and Howard governs.
- 1902–2010The First Boards, 1902–2010: An Open Question
Lakeville incorporated in 1902, and for the town's first hundred and eight years of boards, the open record reached by this build names not one president, not one clerk, not one member.
- 1902–2026The twentieth-century course, at frame strength
The town incorporated on 7 July 1902 (the government section digs the act).
- 1903–todayThe YWCA test: a county institution since 1903, no Lakeville branch
The YWCA of North Central Indiana has served since 1903 , headquartered at 1102 South Fellows Street, South Bend , with service sites across St. Joseph and Elkhart Counties: two emergency domestic-violence shelters, sexual-assault services, chemical-dependency services, and economic-empowerment programmes…
- 1907The lakes' names, as beliefs
The belief that Riddle's Lake is named for somebody is the natural reading of its oldest printed form: Howard's lakes chapter, quoting the state geologist's survey tradition, lists "Pleasant lake and Riddle's lake, in Union township, south of Lakeville" — possessive, 1907.
- 1907The town's name: Howard's sentence, and the Minnesota telling
That is the whole of the record's naming account — a derivation with no namer, no naming act and no date, from the county history of 1907.
1910s
- 1913–1971The Black press of the county seat — and the alternative layer
The state survey of African American newspapers prints the county seat's run: the Observer (1913); the South Bend Forum (1923, weekly); the South Bend Journal (1928, weekly, edited by William D. LaMarr); the South Bend Herald-Times (1950s); and The Reformer (1967–1971, weekly)…
- 1913–2003The plate record: county 71 on a Lakeville windshield
The first registrations ever made for this ground — the 1913-era countywide figures' Union Township share — were not reached in any annual report read (gap G-BMV-1 ).
- 1913–2026The counters Lakeville used, era by era
From 1913 into the early 1920s: the mail, and the notary channel (above). From the early 1920s through 1929: the department's county-seat counters at South Bend.
- 1915–2017Muck, Mint, and Truck Crops — County-Proven, Township-Unproven
Farmers' Bulletin 694 (1915) carries the mint culture of drained marsh muck — and a name trap this section prints to prevent error: the bulletin's first United States peppermint plantation of 1835 stood in St. Joseph County, Michigan , not this county.
- 1916–1917Dry Before Prohibition — the Saloon Was Gone by 1916, and the Temperance Record Is a Settler's Name
The empty 1916–17 Polk line (article lk-digd-bc4) dates the end; whether it came by local-option vote, licence refusal, or a keeper's simple retirement is not in any record read.
- 1916–1917The Dairy Township — One Directory Line, and a Documented Negative Around It
First, the directory fact: Polk's 1916–17 gazetteer entry for Lakeville names the Producers Union Dairy Co. among the town's handlers (Exports carries the handler line whole) — a dairy company standing in the town, at directory strength, in 1916–17.
- 1916–1917Earl Jennings — the Station Agent the Roster Passed By
Polk's 1916–17 Lakeville entry (p. 776) carries the line "Jennings Earl, r r exp and tel agt" — Earl Jennings, railroad, express and telegraph agent.
- 1916–1917The 1916–17 Shoemaker Who Exists Only in the Classified List — a Correction
The businesses fragment states that no shoemaker stands in 1916–17. That is correct at town-entry strength — the p. 776 entry names none — and it is corrected at classified strength: Polk's 1916–17 classified Shoemakers list (pt.
- 1916–1917Coal — the Trade That Never Had a Yard
Polk's 1916–17 town entry (p. 776) carries "Ducy Wm M, genl store and coal" and "Moore Alexander, hdwe and coal" — Moore corroborated in the classified Hardware, Etc. list (pt.
- 1916–1917The first garage and the livery bridge: Kloppenstein, Garrett, Bailey
The garage: O. H. Kloppenstein's garage line in the 1916–17 bench is the town's sole automobile line in any directory the build holds — one garage, and no automobile dealer named in any edition (the gazetteer's own count, garages one, dealers none).
- 1916–1917The First Census — Polk 1916–17: Garages 1, Automobile Dealers 0
The 1916–17 Lakeville entry is the first directory census of the town's auto age, and its whole auto-trade listing is one line: "Kloppenstein O. H., garage."
- 1916–1926Printers — the Paper Verified Past Its Directory Life; the Printer Still Unnamed
Polk's 1916–17 town entry lists the Lakeville Standard (weekly) with no publisher named.
- 1916–1949The First Show, and the First Postwar Canvass — One Gap Named, One Limb Closed
The census limb of this item stands whole in the banked file — Polk 1916–17, garages 1, automobile dealers 0 — and its companion limbs print at their opposite strengths: the show as a searched negative, the postwar canvass as a named gap.
- 1916–2026The Street Record's Missing Limbs, and the Cruise That Left No Print
The street record as banked: U.S. 31 on Michigan Street from 1 October 1926 to 26 August 2014, eighty-eight years of a metropolitan through-route on a two-lane main street (Main Roads & Corridors lk-cor-us31), and the first garage, Kloppenstein O. H., in the 1916–17 canvass (Dealerships lk-dlr-first-census).
- 1916–2026Franchise Points Checked and Not Found
No dealership founded long ago and still operating in Lakeville was proven in any carrier reached; there is therefore no founding-to-present house history to print at full size, and the 1916–17 garage (Kloppenstein O. H.) is not shown by any carrier reached to have become a sales house, let alone a surviving one.
- 1917–1918The First World War: the County's 109 Recounted, and the Township's One
The machinery that took him sat in South Bend, and its record is the county's, proved in the county's own paper: the South Bend News-Times of 14 July 1917 (p. 3, read whole) prints the exemption-board organisation of the first draft — South Bend's Division No. 1 (Farmers' Trust Building, rooms 304–306; chairman Harry K. Tyler…
- 1917–1919The Home Front Branch: the County's Loans, and the Township's Silence
No township line stands in any of the county's tables — the county's war purse was raised by county organisations, and Union Township's share of it, if it was ever separately kept, sits in the Historical Commission's county scrapbook ("St. Joseph County Indiana History European War," in the State Library's Indiana…
- 1917–1919All five loans: the First, Second and Fourth at county strength
Greenough's narrative follows the county week by week: by 7 June 1917 St. Joseph had reported its full quota met; on 14 June it topped the state percentage column at 204 percent with $4,000,000; on 15 June it claimed $4,250,000 — "$2,391,000 more than its quota," which puts the quota at $1,859,000…
- 1917–1919Thrift, counted — and the women's organisation of the loans
The residue is stated whole: no St. Joseph County or Union Township count was found in Greenough or any other carrier reached for the Red Cross, for the women's registration, for women in the county's factories, for the war gardens, or for the fuel winter…
- 1917–19261917: Main Market Road No. 1 — the fate argument, corrected for this corridor
North Liberty's road missed all five of the 1917 market roads. Lakeville's road is one of them — and the difference must print exactly.
- 1917–1935The 1917 Bank — One Charter, Three Names, and the Week It Closed With North Liberty's
The charter record is the Story of Lakeville section: Indiana Department of Banking record No. 516 , organized 31 December 1917 , in a town the schedules of its last years count at 333 people.
- 1917–1945War spikes at anchor size: a farm township's production, unsized by any carrier
No carrier reached sizes that production — no township bushel, herd, or contract figure for 1917–18 or 1941–45 stands in the farms record, the wars record, or the county histories as reached — and a peak cannot be charted from figures that do not exist in the record.
- 1918The wartime clock, the peace that wasn't, and 11 November 1918
In 1918 the county kept two new things at once: a new time, and a war that ended twice.
- 1919Homecomings: Tested, and Not Found
The searches ran for both homecoming seasons, 1919 and 1945–46, and for the town's name with every form of the occasion; the returns were other towns' celebrations and other Lakevilles', refused as such.
- 1919The January 1920 return, the tuberculosis regime, and the polio seat
The settler reached in this section is the federal weekly record: Public Health Reports , Vol. 35 (issues of 20 and 27 February and 12 March 1920), prints Indiana's state-level weekly case reports for the 1920 wave…
1920s
- 1922–2016Broadcast at its streets: WBAQ, WGAZ, and the WSBT moves
WBAQ, licensed to Myron L. Harmon and housed in the YMCA building in South Bend, was first licensed 29 April 1922 and deleted 7 November 1922: the city's first commercial radio station.
- 1923The marsh that was ditched away
The distinction this section keeps exact: Union Township held marsh of its own and sits inside the Kankakee basin , but no source found places it within the Grand Kankakee Marsh proper…
- 1926–2014U.S. 31 through town, 1926–2014: eighty-eight years on Michigan Street
US 31 was first designated in October 1926 — the route records give its existence from 1 October 1926 — and through Lakeville it was the Michigan Road alignment, two lanes on Michigan Street.
- 1927The Week the Bank Closed — a Wire Item from Lakeville, 21 January 1927
The Daily Banner of Greencastle, Friday, 21 January 1927 (Hoosier State Chronicles, OID TDB19270121-01), carries a United Press item datelined "LAKEVILLE, Ind., Jan. 21" under the headline "SECOND INDIANA BANK TO CEASE BUSINESS WITHIN WEEK."
- 1927–1930The failure at household size: the suspension schedules of 1927 and 1930
For 1927: the Lakeville State Bank of Lakeville, St. Joseph County — organized 31 December 1917, suspended 20 January 1927, in a town the schedule counts at 333 people; its condition the day before suspension prints total resources of $176,475.44 against total deposits of $103,325.43; it reopened 27 June 1927.
- 1929–1988The patronage era as it landed here: a system with no local post
The frame, in brief: the Act of 13 March 1929 (ch. 162) put the branches under the parties' county organisations; the system's texture is documented at state strength in the November 1958 UPI reporting on the Handley administration; Governor Orr's 1986 move against it and the commission takeover of July 1988 ended it.
1930s
- 1930–1956The Bankless Years — 1930 to 1956, and the Whole Count of the Town's Banks
Between the liquidation and the next charter, Lakeville had no bank for twenty-six years — 21 February 1930 to 2 April 1956, the middle of the town's three bankless intervals (settlement to 1917 before it; 2011/12 to the present after it).
- 1930–1983Lakeville High School, 601 N. Michigan — 1931 to 1983
In 1931 Union Township built its first high school: a two-story brick Collegiate Gothic building on an eight-acre parcel at 601 N. Michigan Street, bought from George and Elizabeth Holland on 28 May 1930 for $3,618.45.
- 1931The 1931 School's Auditorium-Gymnasium Is the Town's Documented Stage
The 1931 school — nominated to the National Register in 1990 and listed on 29 August 1991, its Bureau review of the companion marker dated 17 March 2014…
- 1931–2026The Game They Played, and Every Ground With Its Course
The grounds, one by one: the 1931 auditorium/gymnasium — the old high school's room at 601 N. Michigan St, the town's school-sport and performance room from 1931 and the pre-consolidation teams' home, surviving the 1965 move as the elementary and then the retired schoolhouse that later housed the library branch…
- 1932Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Parish — the Township's Catholic Seat
No Catholic congregation is seated in the town of Lakeville in any era the record reaches — the Catholic seat for this ground is Sacred Heart of Jesus parish, north of town on U.S. 31, founded in 1932/33 and worshipping there today.
- 1933The Club Movement — One Institution Dug, Four Searched Negatives
The American Legion Auxiliary unit for Post 363 carries a federal exempt record dated 01/1933 — earlier than the post's own two conflicting dates, which print with it, unmerged: exempt ruling February 1945, department post data March 1946.
- 1933–1962The Gary Local: the last mixed train in Indiana, through Lakeville
The record is the line historian's own, dug at first hand from his published research: "The Gary Local began operation in 1933, when regular passenger service was discontinued on the Fourth District.
- 1935The Eastburn Lawsuit, 1935 — $14,127.21, to the Cent
The Eastburn action of 1935 stands in the record at $14,127.21 — a sum printed to the cent in the carriers that kept it, which is why the fact survives at this size at all.
- 1936–1945The Fair's Lakeville Decade, and the Festival That Followed
The years the Fair's page omits are settled at press strength: the South Bend Tribune 's 2001 venue sequence (North Liberty 1926–1935; Lakeville 1936–1945 ; Playland Park 1946–1958; Ironwood & Jackson, South Bend, 1959–present).
1940s
- 1941–1945The Second World War: the County Figure Not Settled, and Why
What exists is the settlers' apparatus: the South Bend Tribune 's "Service Notes" column, indexed by the St. Joseph County Public Library for 1941–1979, which followed county men drafted, promoted, and moved, and is searchable by the serviceman…
- 1942–2026State Road 4: the east–west road at the north edge
Entry into the state system: the western segment "was added to the state road system between 1942 and 1945, between LaPorte and Lakeville " (the route history, citing the state highway maps of 1942 and 1945)…
- 1943The Lakeville Lions — Organised 28 June 1943, Chartered 11 August 1943
The Lions organised here on 28 June 1943 and received their charter on 11 August 1943 — a six-week organising course, preserved at day precision in the club record the record carry.
1950s
- 1952The one national-series race, dated to the day: Playland Park, 20 July 1952
Race 22 of the 1952 NASCAR Grand National season was run at Playland Park, South Bend, on 20 July 1952. Tim Flock won it, in a 1951 Hudson, over Lee Petty, second, and Bub King, third; Herb Thomas won the pole; the race ran 200 laps, and the finishing record carries nineteen cars.
- 1952–2018The Founders as Persons — Public-Record Strength Only
IBJ styles him "a farmer and small-town stock car racer in the 1950s"; the long-form company history captions a photograph "Bob and Joyce Newton after winning the South Bend track championship in 1952."
- 1956–1982Central State Bank of Lakeville — the Holding Company's Bank, 1956–1982
The second bank was a different creature: Central State Bank of Lakeville, Indiana — FDIC Certificate 17571 — established 2 April 1956 at 222 S. Michigan St , charter class NM, and an affiliate of St. Joseph Bank & Trust's holding company, St. Joseph Agency, Inc. , from birth.
- 1957The Founding, 1957 — and Conflict C50, Printed Whole
What every carrier agrees on: in 1957 , Bob and Joyce Newton began making their own race tires by re-treading street tires with softer compounds , selling to local racers.
- 1957–todayThe Anchor Firm Here — Hoosier Racing Tire
Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. — founded 1957 by Bob and Joyce Newton; headquartered at 65465 S.R. 931, Lakeville , its address of record in November 2026; all manufacturing at Plymouth since 1979; a 100% subsidiary of Continental AG since 4 October 2016; president and CEO Joerg Burfien since 1 January 2020.
- 1959The Marlette read, executed whole: the "Proposed Lines" chapter and the 1904 proposal test
Jerry Marlette's Electric Railroads of Indiana (1959) closes its survey with "Proposed Lines" (printed pages 122–131).
1960s
- 1962–2026The Founding Whole, and the Life in Era Buckets
On 1 July 1962 the schools of Union Township, St. Joseph County, and North Township, Marshall County, were organised into the Union-North United School Corporation (Schools lk-sch-corporation); the combined LaVille Jr–Sr High School opened in 1965 at 69969 US 31 South, and the Lancers' life runs from that opening.
- 1962–todayTwo Townships, One Corporation — Union-North United, 1962
On 1 July 1962 the schools of Union Township, St. Joseph County, and North Township, Marshall County, were organized into a single corporation: the Union-North United School Corporation, governed by a five-member elected Board of School Trustees.
- 1965–2026The Coach Succession the Record Reaches, and the Defining Players at Their True Size
That Thacker is the fifteenth proves fourteen predecessors; the carriers reached name, in order, only the last three, and the twelve before Hostrawser bank as a named gap whose settler is the school athletics archive and the 1965-era-to-2012 yearbooks read whole.
- 1965–todayLaVille Jr–Sr High School — the Lancers, 1965 to Today
When the new high school opened in 1965, the township's high school course moved south of town to 69969 US 31 South — on the St. Joseph County side of the county line, as the line evidence in the next article shows.
1970s
- 1971The note-passer test: Moses was an uttering, not a series
State, 271 N.E.2d 446 (Ind. 1971). The series test asks whether linked passings — the note-passer pattern, one hand working a route of banks or merchants — stand behind that single count.
- 1973–1989The abandonment ledger: G-SP-4 settled, and the Vandalia's docket that isn't there
In-document searches of the same INDOT list for "Lakeville" and "Walkerton" returned zero matches, and no row names a Nutwood-to-Culver segment or any 1973 South Bend Branch abandonment.
- 1973–2011The unwinding, 1973–2011: the closure wave as one series
The Vandalia's successor line through town — Penn Central's South Bend Branch, the Nutwood-to-Culver segment that was Lakeville's — was abandoned in 1973 and its track removed in 1974, at the line history's compilation strength, with no ICC or STB docket found in the settler named for it (Railroads, lk-trn-abandonment).
- 1975Union North Ambulance Service — a Separate Corporation
Ambulance service for the Lakeville area is carried by Union North Ambulance Service , a nonprofit corporation distinct from the fire territory: the exempt register gives its ruling as 06/1975, its Form 990 record gives EIN 23-7416532 and the address 117 S Main St — co-located with the township and fire address…
- 1976–2021The Later Wars: a Negative with Its Method
No post-Vietnam, pre-2001 service death — the 1991 Gulf War included — attributed to Lakeville was found either; those two tails (1976–2000, and September 2011–2021) rest on index-strength negatives, and the settler that raises them to file strength…
- 1977Potato Creek's Traces of Human Impact — 10.85 Hiking Miles, the Worster Ice, and Its Lost Village
The human traces the checklist asks for stand on the property's own record: Worster Lake, 327 acres, is a dammed lake — ice-plant water standing where a creek ran…
1980s
- 1982The Miller Test — the Standard Source, Unreached
John W. Miller, Indiana Newspaper Bibliography: Historical Accounts of All Indiana Newspapers Published from 1804 to 1980 and Locational Information for All Available Copies, Both Original and Microfilm (Indiana Historical Society, 1982…
- 1982–2011The Branch Years — 1982 to 2011, Under Five Names
The name over the door followed the successor chain link by link — St. Joseph Bank and Trust Company from the 1982 merger; then the Society names in turn (Society Bank, Indiana; Society National Bank, Indiana from 1992; Society Bank, Michigan); then KeyBank National Association from 1996…
- 1982–2022The County in Numbers — the Verified Series
St. Joseph County, Census of Agriculture: 1982 — about 1,000 farms, 172,500 acres in farms (the county plan's Table 3-2, its farm count flagged approximate in the plan itself); 1987 — about 900 farms, 174,226 acres; 1992 — about 780 farms, 172,348 acres; 1997 — about 680 farms, 154,142 acres; 2017…
- 1982–2026Suburban Conversion — Consolidation at County Scale, Pressure at the Corridor
At county scale, the verified series is the only acreage measure reached: 172,500 acres in farms (1982) → 154,142 (1997) → 149,981 (2017) → 153,034 (2022) , farm numbers falling throughout, average size reaching 280 acres — consolidation with a late acreage uptick , not continuous conversion.
- 1983The mechanism that never ran here: railbanking, and the state's money
The mechanism: the National Trails System Improvements Act of 1983 amended the Trails Act to let a railroad corridor be railbanked — held in interim trail use under the Surface Transportation Board's authority, the corridor's legal continuity preserved against abandonment's reversion, a trail manager stepping in as interim user.
- 1983–todayThe Old School After 1983 — What the Record Supports, and What It Does Not
The claim's own chain is weak at its root: the town reference article states the school "closed in 1983, and now houses a community center," citing the nomination at p. 2 — while the nomination's own Current Functions field reads "WORK IN PROGRESS."
- 1989–todayThe Superintendents — a Line with Its Gaps Printed
Dr. David L. Pruis was superintendent in 1989: the Indiana Court of Appeals' opinion in Jackson v. Union-North United School Corp. , 582 N.E.2d 854 (decided 16 December 1991), a case over 1989–93 school-bus contracts, records a board meeting of 24 May 1989 and names him.
1990s
- 1990–2007The Branch in the Schoolhouse Years, 1990–2007
The Lakeville Branch first opened in December 1990, inside Lakeville High School. The system's own history page states the whole of it under its 1990 heading: "This new branch first opened in December at Lakeville High School."
- 1994How one band stayed: the mechanism, read in the statute
L. 103-323, 21 September 1994), state it in so many words: "In the Treaty of Chicago 1833, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians was the only band that negotiated a right to remain in Michigan."
- 1998The marker: 71.1998.1
The state marked the settlement in 1998, Indiana Historical Bureau marker 71.1998.1. It stands at the northwestern corner of the junction of State Road 4 (Pierce Road) and Mulberry Road, east of Potato Creek State Park, in Union Township — the settlement section's southern and eastern bounds meeting at its corner.
- 1999Newton Park's Paved Mile and Culp Park's Ground — the Town's Only Walks
Newton Park, opened in 1999 by Bob and Joyce Newton at 801 N Michigan Street (one 2026 listing prints 701; the variance stands whole), holds one mile of paved walking path across its forty acres, held by Newton Park Inc; the governing rule of that park is a walking rule — "NO Bikes, Skateboards, or In-Line Skating."
21st century 71 dated mentions
2000s
- 2002The centennial: 2002
The town was incorporated in 1902, and its centennial year was kept: the county's 2011 Comprehensive Plan records that "a large Centennial celebration was held in 2002 with a parade and festival," its history narrative adding "a day of community activities, a parade, and evening fireworks," and captions a photograph…
- 2002The Fee-as-Tax Test: Indiana's Suit Was Evansville's, and No Lakeville Instance Stands
The state's case: for 2002–03 the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation imposed a mandatory $20 student services fee on every K–12 student, including students qualifying for free and reduced lunch and textbook programmes, the proceeds going to the general fund.
- 2002–todayThe festival test: none in Lakeville — and the county's festival, founded and lost
The regional course the search does return is the county seat's, and it prints because it is the pattern's answer: the River Bend Film Festival was founded in 2002 in South Bend by a group of filmmakers and avid film-lovers, with Tim Richardson as its festival director; it ran in South Bend for fourteen years…
- 2005Tombstones in a Manure Pit, 2005 — the Roll's Newest Oddity Is a Crime Story
In 2005, tombstones turned up in a manure pit, and the fact stands because the record of it does. The item opens the banked roll of eight because it is the roll's most recent and most concrete: carved stones, a farm pit, a discovery that became a record.
- 2005"175 years" — a Michigan birthday
The carrier, fetched whole: the Lake Orion Review 's "175th anniversary of Lakeville's first settler" (2005) — "Exactly 175 years ago, the first settler laid down roots in what is now known as the Village of Lakeville", the settler Sherman Hopkins, 1830, sourced in the article to Barbara Stafford's The Addison Album…
- 2005–2026The modern course: reform at a distance, the kiosk test, and November 2026
The 2005 rounds pass here at boundary size (Walkerton's article carries them whole): Walkerton was named in them, its 56,470 transactions and 11 employees printed, and it survived — a fight Lakeville watched from eleven straight-line miles away, having no seat at risk.
- 2006–2026The Modern Exporter — Hoosier Racing Tire's Foreign Distribution
The dated scale points: in December 2006 IBJ reported 5% of Hoosier's sales were outside the United States , with "several new global distribution plants in the works" (the company's marketing vice president, at that date).
- 2007Built in 2007, Paid For on Opening Day
The present Lakeville Branch building was built in 2007, and it was completely paid for on the day it opened.
- 2008–20102008–09 in Lakeville: the recession the record barely names
Hoosier Racing Tire, the town's anchor firm, stood independent through 2008 and 2009; Continental AG acquired it only on 4 October 2016, at a workforce of some 500 as the acquisition record prints it, and a price of about $140 million carried at encyclopedia strength.
- 2008–todayBiker Church of the Heartland / Heartland Lakeville
The network's own history page states it whole: "Biker Church started in 2008 with a leading by God to reach out to and minister to bikers and motorcyclists… For the first 12 years of its existence Biker Church moved from location to location in South Bend, IN and Mishawaka, IN… But in 2020 Biker Church found its home…
- 2009The long wait: thirteen uncharged years, and no execution at the end of any pause
The long-wait case is Pelley's, restated as this item's article rather than as a passing fact: four people were shot dead on 29–30 April 1989; the State did not charge Jeff Pelley until 7 August 2002 — thirteen years in which the case was the township's open file and its defining civic fact…
- 2009–2026The presidents' and clerks' lines, at every strength reached
The clerks, on the same schedules: Darla Perkins (Faucett), 16 November 2009 to 31 December 2011; Cindy McQueen from 1 January 2012, her end standing in the conflict the government file prints whole (one schedule carries her to 31 December 2019; the later schedule ends her 4 November 2016 and runs an interim sequence…
2010s
- 2010–2025Transpo's riders and fares, printed
The South Bend Public Transportation Corporation (Transpo) publishes its record through the federal and state transit reports: a base fare of $1.00 , with reduced fares, its most recent fare increase dated 5 April 2010…
- 2010–2026What the Town Does Not Have — the Trade Zone, a Port, Sister Cities
Foreign-Trade Zone 125 (grantee: the St. Joseph County Airport Authority; Order No. 1720, Federal Register, 8 November 2010) covers Lakeville the way it covers the whole county: the town lies inside the zone's alternative-site-framework service area by county .
- 2011The riverfront test: the 2011 plan read whole, and the river is not in it
Town of Lakeville Comprehensive Plan draft of 27 June 2011, prepared for the town by Wightman Petrie and Storrow Kinsella Associates, acknowledged to a Town Council of John Kuhn (President), Martha Tyler (Vice President) and Karen Iovino, with thanks to Jeanne Geyer.
- 2011Urban Renewal, the Cleared Hole, the Paper Mall — a Named Gap
The gap is therefore named rather than closed: town minutes and the 2011 Comprehensive Plan read whole, for any renewal clearance or mall scheme, stand as the settler, current.
- 2011Council firsts and long-servers, at the strength the record reaches
The reached points, assembled: the council of the 2011 Comprehensive Plan — John Kuhn, president; Martha Tyler, vice president; Karen Iovino, member — the first full council the build names.
- 2011–2026The presidents' and clerks' lines, as far as the schedules carry them
Presidents of the town council, from the State Board of Accounts' Schedules of Officials unless noted: John Kuhn, 1 January to 31 December 2011.
- 2011–2026The presidents as people: what the record prints of the men and women in the chair
John Kuhn holds the chair in 2011, the first year the SBOA schedules reach, and nothing further of him stands in any carrier dug.
- 2011–2026The Sale and the Succession — 2011 to the Present Holder
From 2011 Hoosier and Continental worked together — the companies collaborated on the Official Spec Tire of the Rolex Sports Car Series, a programme the company's history says lasted eight years…
- 2011–2026The Branch's End, and the Present State — No Bank Stands in Lakeville
The branch closed between 30 June 2011 and 30 June 2012 — the window the evidence fixes, printed as a window because no carrier reached gives the day: the SOD series ends with the June 2011 survey, yet a 2012 business directory still lists the Lakeville branch.
- 2012Riddles Lake, September 2012: the township's one documented aviation event
The township's whole documented aviation history, at the only strength it exists: a press aggregation of September 2012 ("Aircraft makes unexpected landing near Lakeville," Kathryn's Report, a press/blog aggregation…
- 2012–2026EnFocus at Boundary — the Fellowship Is the Region's, Not the Town's
The region's best-documented civic-innovation nonprofit prints at boundary, to show what the town does not have. enFocus, a South Bend nonprofit launched in May 2012 out of the University of Notre Dame's ESTEEM programme…
- 2013–2026State Road 931: the number twice-born, and the log that ends it at the county line
The number's first life is southern and prints at pointer size: designated in 2013 when US 31 was rerouted onto the Kokomo bypass, for the old road there — itself a relocated US 31 of 1952 — 11.592 miles from US 31 south of Kokomo to US 31 north of it.
- 2014Gravel by the townships, and the surfaces after
The numbered era's later surfaces are field-record facts: the old road between South Bend and Lakeville stood four-lane undivided by 2007 (the surveyor's photographs and captions); the widening era is the same carrier's hedge…
- 2014The 2014 freeway: east of town, Exit 239, and the Mangus dedication
The new U.S. 31 opened on 27 August 2014, and Lakeville's main street got its traffic back — a tenth of it. The state's release that day is titled "Governor Pence Officially Opens New US 31 Plymouth to South Bend" (its text carried by two independent route records citing it; the banked spine carries it as INDOT's).
- 2015The Raptor Return, at the Nests of Record — None of Them in This Township
At Potato Creek, bald eagles nested unsuccessfully from 2012 to 2014 — first enhancing an osprey nest, then building their own — and hatched first in May 2015, three eaglets, on the DNR's own release.
- 2015–todayChose this ground: F.C. Indiana at Newton Park
The women's soccer club F.C. Indiana, founded in 2003, has played its home matches at Newton Park in Lakeville since 2015; its notable former players — internationals such as Aivi Luik, Sasha Andrews, Mizuho Sakaguchi and Maribel Domínguez — passed through as Newton Park home players.
- 2016Art in the Park, Created 2016 — the Town's One Art Institution Is a Festival
Created in 2016, Art in the Park is the art event the town's record holds.
- 2016Bog and Tamarack Edges — Lydick Bog and Spicer Lake at County Pointer
The Trust's own course prints beside it: acquired in 2016 at about 178 acres, dedicated an Indiana State Nature Preserve in January 2019, the Trust's first project outside Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties…
- 2016–2026The modern calendar the town built, and its verification
Alongside the Fall Festival, the town's own published record builds the present calendar piece by piece, and this closing article states it as verified to November 2026, each line from the town's site read whole: Art in the Park , created 2016 with the Fall Festival, reached its own tenth year in 2026 ("Art in the…
- 2017The Children's Hospital — Renamed and Rehoused in the Spring of 2017
Memorial Children's Hospital became Beacon Children's Hospital in April 2017, taking the system's name; in early May 2017 the new 95,000-square-foot children's facility welcomed its first patients, carrying a paediatric intensive care unit and an advanced neonatal intensive care unit designed so mother and baby room together.
- 2019Formed here: Alex Cartwright, state finalist
At the IHSAA's 81st Annual Wrestling State Finals, 15–16 February 2019 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, the 285-pound final read: "Dorian Keys (11) Brownsburg (39-4) def.
2020s
- 2020Density computed, and the rank stated at the census that carries it
The density the leg never printed is an arithmetic fact of two banked figures: 879 people on 0.631 square miles of land is 1,393 people per square mile at the 2020 census (computed) — a small town at a streetcar suburb's density, because its plat never grew.
- 2020–2021COVID after February 2021: the orders, the vaccination campaign, and the toll's course
St. Joseph County Public Health Orders 1-2020 and 2-2020 imposed the county's face-covering requirement in early May 2020 — masks in enclosed public spaces and businesses where six feet of distance could not be kept, with exceptions including children under two and medical conditions, and hand sanitiser required at…
- 2020–2024The Veteran Population, Dated: Twenty-Six
The figure comes from the Missouri Census Data Center's rendering of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2020–2024 five-year estimates for the town of Lakeville, and it prints at that derivative carrier's strength, with its caveats attached: the same report renders the town's total population as 735 against…
- 2020–2026The Present State — as of November 2026
The 2020 form: " Based in Lakeville Indiana , Hoosier Racing Tire is the largest manufacturer of racing tires in the world…" The 2022–2026 form: "… Based in Plymouth, Ind. its state-of-the-art facility, including a fully integrated technology and R&D center, is solely dedicated to engineering, designing, supporting…
- 2021Away to Camp, and the Children's Room at Its Full Pointer
The room first, at the size the banked kids' article pointed to and the libraries file proves: the Lakeville Branch's children's room as a place of fun — storytime for ages 3–5 on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m., alternating with North Liberty, with a community listing carrying a Lakeville storytime on Thursday 5 November 2026…
- 2021–2024Current capital change on the surviving line: Double Track, and the open station question stated
The Double Track Northwest Indiana project added a second track over the 26.6-mile segment between Gary and Michigan City: construction from 2021, a project cost of 649 million dollars in the district's own project record (trade carriers print 650 million…
- 2022The Memorial Tower — 249 Beds to 302, Ground Broken October 2022
Memorial's patient tower — $232 million, ten storeys, 300,000 square feet — broke ground in October 2022, planned to raise adult acute-care beds from 249 to 302, with completion targeted for late 2025 and occupancy in early 2026.
- 2023Union Township Is In — the District Map Around Lakeville
The State Library's Technical Guide for Library Redistricting (updated June 2026; service areas as of the end of the 2020 Census redistricting period, September 2023) states it verbatim in its by-county entry: "St. Joseph County Public Library serves eight townships by tax: Centre, Clay, German, Greene, Liberty…
- 2023–2026Fire: the territory's course to 2026, and its formation sharpened
The Department of Local Government Finance's certified budget orders for St. Joseph County, read at the two units' pages for 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, carry the territory's two funds under Unit 0012, Union Township, in every year — fund 8604, Special Fire Protection Territory General, and 8692, Equipment Replacement…
- 2025Union Township's board, labelled; the trustee's line
The labelling instead comes from the township's own published minutes of 2025: the meeting of 15 April 2025 was "[c]alled to order at 18:0 By Board President Trisha Carrico," with "Board Secretary Ryan Schafer and Member Mike Wozney" present…
- 2026The Legion's Permit — RC7107499, a "Servicemen's Club," Live on the October 2026 Agenda
American Legion Post 363 holds ATC permit RC7107499 under the style "Servicemen's Club," and the permit stood active on the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission's agenda of 6 October 2026 — the freshest dated fact in this section.
- 2026The Training Layer That Is Not Here, and the Designations on the Town's Care Routes
The designation test then runs where the care actually happens, on the two routes the banked file names, South Bend and Plymouth, and prints at verified standing as of November 2026.
- 2026The Neighbouring-City Creators at Boundary Size, and the Sister-City Debt Logged
Born and raised in South Bend on the strongest carriers — YouTube's own creator-story record (2020, updated March 2025) opens on his South Bend neighbourhood, and the studio's own record gives the channel's course: Cartoon Connect, built from South Bend, its series Lil Ron Ron from 2016, with audience figures printed…
- 2026The Boundary, Printed Once, and the Famous Natives Who Are Not Influencers
With the boundary printed and the roll pointed, this section's whole account stands as its banked article framed it and this section completes: verified seated creators, none; assumed cases, dispelled; neighbouring creators, boundary-printed with the sister-city debt logged; famous natives, closed at pointer in People…
- 2026The modern frame: the town today
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 — with Patterson Street and State Road 4 at its north edge among its principal streets, and the new U.S. 31 freeway's SR 4 interchange to its east.
- 2026The closing beat, with its holders named
The carrying record is the town's own: at the reorganization in the minutes of 5 January 2026, read whole, Hathaway and Rouch voted to keep the board the same — "Lori Kelly as Town President, April Hathaway as Vice President and Dean Rouch as Board Member"…
- 2026The form of the town government
The council's reached meetings of 2025–2026 all sit at 6:00 p.m. — 5 and 15 May, 3 and 19 November, 29 December 2025, and 5 January 2026, roughly twice monthly on varying weekdays — a pattern of dated meetings, not a stated rule…
- 2026Union Township's seats
The February 2024 executive meeting of the trustee's advisory board lists as present Kelly Carrico, Trisha Carrico, Mike Wozney and Ryan Schafer; the minutes as extracted do not label the three members' offices individually, and they print here as the meeting's members present, not as a labelled roster…
- 2026The current seats, re-verified
The re-verification rests on the town's own minutes of 5 January 2026, read whole: Vice-President April Hathaway opened the meeting at 6:00 p.m., and the reorganization entry reads, "April Hathaway and Dean Rouch both vote to keep Town Board the same.
- 2026The Name Change — LaVille Community Schools, 2026
On 8 June 2026 the Board of School Trustees voted 4–0 to change the corporation's name from Union-North United School Corporation to LaVille Community Schools.
- 2026The Branch Today — November 2026
As of November 2026 the Lakeville Branch stands at 120 N. Michigan St, Lakeville, IN 46536, phone 574-784-3446, open forty-four hours a week.
- 2026Who Runs It — an Area Manager, and a Thin Roster
The system's own head stands in the next article but one: Executive Director Stephanie Murphy, in post since 1 July 2022 and verified current on the Board's own page in November 2026.
- 2026Lakeville's Religious Landscape — November 2026
As of November 2026, five congregations stand confirmed active in the town of Lakeville on their own carriers, one more is carried but unconfirmed, and three worship in the township around it.
- 2026Transit at town size: the stage, no bus, and Transpo's map that stops at the city line
The present-day test is first-hand and dated: Transpo — the South Bend Public Transportation Corporation, serving South Bend and Mishawaka and the nearby suburbs of Notre Dame and Roseland…
- 2026The living map: the county GIS, and where the historic maps physically live
St. Joseph County's geographic information is maintained as a regional system through the Michiana Area Council of Governments — the county's own mapping pages route the public to the MACOG-served GIS viewers and parcel records, through which the plats' digital survival can be checked section by section: the 1859…
- 2026Heliports, the six aircraft that are not a facility, and the closing account
Named gaps carried forward: G-AIR-1 , the parcel-level federal 5010 pull against the township bounds (the township negative's completing settler); G-AIR-2 , the direct CAROL location query for Lakeville, Indiana (the accident negative's completing settler)…
- 2026The modern trade, named: Stephanie Grau Photography, Lake Trail
The banked article left the modern trade as one unnamed working portrait photographer at place-record strength; the November 2026 listing names the trade, and it prints here at exactly the listing's strength.
- 2026The Present-Day Storefront Census — November 2026, at Listing Strength
The ledger's census debt is paid at listing strength and labelled as such — web listings read November 2026, not a Polk-bench canvass.
- 2026The One-Off, the Truck Works and the Living Plant — Three Empties and One Component
The living-plant test verifies the present assembly plant at its street address, and its answer is a verified absence: no assembly plant stands in Lakeville in November 2026, at any address.
- 2026The Working Scene, Dated: No Festival, No Troupe, No Named Lakeville Comic — the Region's Room at Pointer
As of November 2026, Lakeville has no comedy festival, no improv troupe, no open mic and no named working comic of its own in any current listing reached — and the scene its residents actually use stands ten miles north, at its address.
- 2026The Honours Apparatus, Counted Honestly, and What Survived
Since 2013: eight sectional finals with titles in 2017 and 2021 under Hostrawser (the site, 2023 and 2025), a further title in the three years to November 2025 on the school's own report ("2nd sectional championship in 3 years"), and the South Bend Tribune 's February 2026 count of four sectional titles since 2013…
- 2026The Covenant Test: No Deed Search Stands, and None Is Simulated
It is stated current: as of November 2026 no covenant controversy for Lakeville stands documented in any open carrier, and the gap, not a simulated search, is the closure.
- 2026The Halls' Own Rosters: McCollough and Lightfoot Enumerated, As Of November 2026
The as-of date for the whole enumeration is November 2026; the settlers for any later class are the halls' own rosters, read directly, which is where this article's names now come from.
- 2026The Field Tests and the Professional Test, Run by Name
Each blank is a tested blank as of November 2026, with the named hall's own roster as its settler.
- 2026The Group Era and the Trade's Institutions — Two Boundary Negatives
The leg's institutions, at the record reached, are therefore none — printed whole, dated November 2026, with the trade press and association records as settlers for record strength.
- 2026Bowling's Family Side, the Arcades, and the Fun-Center Form
The arcade limb: no coin arcade, video arcade or redemption room naming Lakeville stands in any carrier reached, in the arcade decades or since — a searched negative, dated November 2026.
- 2026The southern counter: Plymouth, tested expressly
The same wait-times carrier that verifies Plymouth also names its neighbours — "Nearby license branches include: Walkerton, Knox, and Nappanee" — pointer-strength evidence, from the Bureau's own system, that Walkerton still stands in its nearby-branch geography in November 2026, its exact present form being Walkerton's whole.
- 2026The Present Carriers — November 2026
The South Bend Tribune still carries LaVille at staff-sports strength — preseason football power rankings in August 2026, and a staff feature of 23 December 2025 on LaVille football's Brayden Schwitz (Kyle Smedley, sports reporter, bylined) — but no standing Lakeville town beat or column was evidenced in the searches run…