Mishawaka Transportation History: Railroads, Transit, Airports and Roads

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Mishawaka Transportation History: Railroads, Transit, Airports and Roads

Railroads, streetcars, the interurban and buses, airfields, cars and the great roads.

Transportation

§ 21Mishawaka Railroad History: The Railroads of MishawakaMishawaka was a railroad town from the day the first locomotive steamed in behind the little wood-burner John Strycker on 4 October 1851, and it has never stopped being one — it has only stopped being a passenger town.…12 entry pages § 22Mishawaka Public Transit: The streetcars, the interurban, the buses and the roadsMishawaka has been carried for hire since October 1885, when a horse-car line built in a single month first tied the town to South Bend, and for fifty-five years the carriage of the two cities was one continuous…17 entry pages § 23Mishawaka Airports: The fields that carried Mishawaka's nameMishawaka's air record is the record of a name that kept leaving the city. The region's first flight, in 1911, was made from a field by Ironwood Drive and Dragoon Trail whose ground the South Bend record assigns to…12 entry pages § 13Mishawaka Automobiles: The Makers and the Parts TradeSouth Bend made Studebakers, and the question this section answers is what, if anything, Mishawaka made. The answer the record gives is not the one the city's own trade suggests at first glance: the dealerships file of…10 entry pages § 24Mishawaka's Main Roads: The roads that made and remade the cityMishawaka stands where it stands because a road crossed a river here. The Vistula Road — the state road of 1832 from South Bend toward Toledo — bisected Alanson Hurd's townsite within a year of the first plat, and the…13 entry pages

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