Mishawaka, Indiana · 19th century
1820s
5 dated events in 1820s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 5 dated mentions
1820s
- 1821The cessions, instrument by instrument; the chiefs' deaths; and the removal
The Treaty of Chicago, 29 August 1821, ceded some five million acres of Michigan country and left Indiana's St. Joseph valley in Potawatomi title.
- 1821The county asylum: Mishawaka's share
Care of the mind began as poor relief, and the relief was the county's: Indiana's act of 1821 that provided for houses for the employment of the poor opened the county asylums to the insane as well, and St. Joseph County's asylum stood, in every one of its forms, on the far side of the river: the rented houses in…
- 1826The road, the river road that never came, and the railroad: the transport beats
The Michigan Road — Madison on the Ohio to Michigan City on the lake, through Indianapolis — was granted by the Potawatomi treaty of 16 October 1826, surveyed in rival routes, and fixed on 13 January 1830 by the route through South Bend, four miles below this ground: the great thoroughfare of northern Indiana ran past…
- 1828The cession as a transaction, and the reserve test
The townsite's Indian title was extinguished by one instrument, and the instrument's own terms are the record: The treaty concluded 20 September 1828 "at the Missionary Establishments upon the St. Joseph, of Lake Michigan" — Carey Mission, by present Niles…
- 1829–1863Colonization: the state's Liberia machinery, and this county's answer
The Indiana Colonization Society, organized at Indianapolis in 1829 as an auxiliary of the American Colonization Society, promoted the removal of free Black Hoosiers to Liberia through its newspaper, The Colonizationist , under John D. Defrees.