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Against the city's own programme stands the older, state series. The Indiana Historical Bureau's list for St. Joseph County carries twenty-three markers; nine stand in Mishawaka, enumerated here from the Bureau's own pages with their years and numbers. Four came in 1968: First Dam Across the St. Joseph River / Power Race (71.1968.1), at Race and First Streets — the dam of 1837, 577 feet long, 24 feet thick, $38,000; First Bridge (71.1968.2), at Main Street — built 1837 for $2,499 "by popular subscription"; The Mishawaka Academic and Normal Institute 1846–1868, at 303 South Main; and St. Joseph Iron Works, in the 300 block of North Main — Alanson Hurd's furnace ground of 1833. Then Mishawaka High School (1976); Kamm & Schellinger Brewery (71.1995.1, 1995), erected by the Bureau and the 100 Center Property Owners Association; Normain Heights Subdivision (71.1997.1, 1997), erected by the Bureau and the Beiger Heritage Corporation; Battell Park (1997), at 400 West Mishawaka Avenue; and Dodge Manufacturing Company (71.1999.1, 1999), erected by the Bureau and Dodge, at 500 South Union Street — Wallace Dodge's split-pulley works of 1878.
Two of the nine no longer stand where the Bureau put them. The Historical Marker Database's field record reports the First Bridge and St. Joseph Iron Works markers "confirmed missing" — the two 1968 markers at the city's founding ground, both gone from the street while their texts survive on the Bureau's pages. The loss is a preservation fact of the plainest kind and is printed at its size: Mishawaka's state series, complete on paper, stands seven of nine on the ground. The county's remaining markers are South Bend's and the townships', and stand in those accounts; Mishawaka's nine are its whole state-series holding, and the sponsors named on them — a property owners' association, a preservation corporation, a manufacturer — repeat this section's lesson that in Mishawaka the marking, like the saving, has been done substantially by private hands.