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1830s–2023 · THE TOWNSHIP RECORD AND THE COUNTY HOME'S COURSE
The first institution of relief on this ground was an office, not a building. Indiana's poor-relief law put relief in the township trustee's hands, and Olive Township's trustee carried it — the government leg's township article carries the office at office size, and no township poor farm, asylum or relief building is attested for Olive Township in any source this section read. The institution above the township was the county's: the St. Joseph County Home, carried in its later years as Portage Manor on Portage Avenue in South Bend — South Bend's ground, pointed to here at boundary size and told whole in that city's build. Its course ended in this decade: the county home closed on 31 July 2023, and the county's poor-relief line has run since through the trustees and the contracted agencies of the articles below. For Olive Township the relief sequence is therefore complete in two lines: trustee relief at home, continuously; the county home above it, 31 July 2023 its last day.
Sources:
- Government, the township article — the trustee's poor-relief office at office size.
- The South Bend build's county-home record (sister build, banked) — Portage Manor, the St. Joseph County Home, closed 31 July 2023; carried here at boundary size only.