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Lincoln Highway and the McKinley corridor · 1913–1960s
The highway ran the length of the town's main street, and its lodging left no named house in the record. The gap is the entry. From 1913 the Lincoln Highway crossed Mishawaka on Second Street — Lincolnway — a block from the Hotel Mishawaka, whose own advertisement boasted the fact; the McKinley corridor carried the eastbound traffic of the next generation. Every ingredient of the tourist-camp and motor-court era was present: a through highway, factory wages, a river for scenery. But the era's Mishawaka houses do not surface in the carriers worked. Brian Butko's Lincoln Highway guide, the standard gazetteer of the road, names for Mishawaka only the Bonnie Doon ice cream plant — a food landmark, carried in that fragment. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Association's Cabin Camp Project, which exists to recover exactly these places, names no Mishawaka camp in the material reached. The region's documented brick motel of the highway's 1950s stands west of South Bend, in another city's record. It would be easy, and it would be wrong, to fill this silence with the corridor's later chain houses or with camps borrowed from neighboring towns: Mishawaka's court-by-court record rests where it has always rested, in the Polk classified runs of the 1930s through the 1960s at the Mishawaka–Penn–Harris Public Library and in the postcard trade, and neither was pulled. The named gap stands: the auto age's Mishawaka lodging, house by house, is the update pass's first pull.
Sources:
- Butko, Lincoln Highway guide writings — the road's Mishawaka coverage naming the Bonnie Doon and no court or camp; Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, Cabin Camp Project — no Mishawaka camp in the material reached; both as searched and in this build's Food fragment.
- Polk, Indiana Gazetteer (1916–17) — the Hotel Mishawaka "One Block From Lincoln Highway."