Mishawaka Churches, Schools and Civic Institutions

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Mishawaka Churches, Schools and Civic Institutions

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Schools, Churches & Civic Life

§ 28Mishawaka Churches and Religion: The Faiths of the Princess City, Congregation by CongregationMishawaka's religious record begins with the iron works. The village of St. Joseph Iron Works was platted in the 1830s around its furnaces, and its first congregations were organized while the place was still a company…29 entry pages § 27Mishawaka Schools and Colleges: One City, Several Systems, a Single WebMishawaka was never schooled by one system. The public corporation that grew out of an 1834 subscription school and the Catholic parish schools that grew out of St. Joseph's vestry were built in the same decades, on the…14 entry pages § 47Mishawaka HospitalsMishawaka's hospital history is, for its first century, the history of one house and the sisters who ran it. The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ came to St. Joseph's parish in 1878 to nurse — visiting the sick in their…3 entry pages § 48Medical Advancements From Mishawaka: What Its Medicine Discovered, Proved and Did FirstMishawaka's medical record is the inverse of a research city's. Nothing was discovered here that the record reached can name: no Mishawaka practitioner holds a documented technique, instrument or discovery, and the test…11 entry pages § 46Epidemics and Public Health in MishawakaMishawaka had no hospital for the first seventy-five years of its existence, no city health officer named in any record this build has reached, and no epidemic narrative of its own in the commissioned history — yet it…12 entry pages § 49Mishawaka Mental Health InstitutionsMishawaka never held the seats of the system that governed its residents' minds. The county asylum stood across the river in South Bend; the state hospitals its committed residents were sent to stood in Indianapolis…16 entry pages § 45Mishawaka Fire and Public Safety: The Fire Department, the Police, and the AmbulanceMishawaka's fire protection began as an iron company's equipment: a hand pump bought in 1844 to guard the St. Joseph Iron Works, worked by a 43-man volunteer company organized out of the men who ran it. The town stayed…15 entry pages § 59Mishawaka LibrariesMishawaka's library began, on the surviving record, with a fire — and then, after a generation of borrowed rooms and a subscription collection that ended its wanderings in the restrooms of the rubber works, the city did…20 entry pages § 60Mishawaka Museums: From a Children's Museum of 1946 to the Museum on Main StreetMishawaka was a museum city for most of the twentieth century without ever having a museum of its own government or its own historical society's building: from 1946 its history was kept where its children could touch…18 entry pages § 34Mishawaka CharitiesMishawaka organized its generosity later than it organized its government, and in different shapes than its larger neighbor. South Bend built the county's federated machinery — the charity-organization society, the 1914…6 entry pages § 35Mishawaka Foundations and NonprofitsMishawaka's charitable sector, read as money and structure, has a shape unlike the service map in the charities file. The city is the corporate seat of two regional health systems whose hospitals stand across the river…19 entry pages § 33Major Donations in Mishawaka: The Lilly Line, the Era Ladder, and the Ranked TableMishawaka has no standalone donations fragment; its major giving has stood scattered through the charities, nonprofits and wealth files of this history, each gift at the size of the article that happened to hold it.…§ 86Mishawaka Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders: The Lodge City's Other Charter RollMishawaka's second government met after dark, in rooms over the stores on Main Street, and it ran on paper: charters, dispensations, assessments, benefit certificates. The town's first lodge was organized about 1843…14 entry pages § 85Mishawaka Private Clubs: The Membership CityMishawaka kept a second civic architecture behind its public one: the lodge hall over the storefront, the clubhouse on the river bluff, the members-only room a few doors from the tavern. It was a smaller membership city…30 entry pages

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