New Carlisle, Indiana · 19th century
1830s
38 dated events in 1830s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 38 dated mentions
1830s
- 1830Hamilton Methodist Church — the county's first Methodist society, organized 1830
Chapman calls James Armstrong "the Evangelist of Methodism in this county," here until his death in the fall of 1834, and records that the first Methodist society in St. Joseph County was organized at the house of Paul Egbert on Terre Coupee Prairie: eight individuals, with John Egbert as class-leader, formed…
- 1830–1831The county's first law: sheriff, constables, and a log jail
St. Joseph County was organized in August 1830; its courts sat at South Bend, and its coercive apparatus was built in a single season.
- 1830–1835The founding claims, as a pair: who came first, and who founded
Around the denial the page fixes the Vails' true place: Charles Vail settled in 1830 and was afterward elected County Judge, and "this township received its name in honor of the wife of Charles Vail" — the township's name is Olive's monument, the marriage claim false.
- 1830–1835The state as landowner: office, survey, and first sales
Ceded in 1826, the county's lands "did not come into market until the spring of 1830."
- 1830–1837The first settlers of the township
Asher White came at sixteen in 1830; his full course stands in the long-tail register below. The chapter also names the founding dead: Samuel and Jesse Garwood, Jeremiah Williamson, John Baker, James Shingleton, Nathan Haines, Isaac Phillips and Jacob Egbert.
- 1830–1851The stage-road town: hotel, store, post office, and Hamilton's eclipse
The town grew up on the Michigan Road, located through this ground in 1830.
- 1830–1851The road on this ground: located 1830, and the town it made
Chapman, whose 1880 county history is this build's first-hand carrier for the road's local course, records that the first regularly located road in St. Joseph County was made in 1830 under Judge Polk of Logansport, by order of the State — the Michigan Road, run from Madison on the Ohio River to the mouth of Trail Creek…
- 1830–1861Terre Coupee's founders: Hubbard, Egbert, and the man named Hamilton
Jacob Egbert (died 17 January 1871, aged 76, at Hamilton) was of the township's first family: his kinsmen Paul and John Egbert hosted the county's first Methodist society in 1830, and an Egbert — John — served as the county agent who carried out the first county-seat bond issue, with Jacob Egbert as one of his bondsmen.
- 1830–1880Charles and Olive Vail: the woman the township is named for
Charles Vail settled in the township in 1830 and was afterward elected a county judge. His wife was Olive (Stanton) Vail.
- 1830–1921The oldest-institution claims, one by one
Chapman supports the claim in its parts, and the parts have two dates: the first Methodist society in St. Joseph County was organized at the house of Paul Egbert on Terre Coupee Prairie, its class formed, by the society's tradition, in 1830; and "the first church was built at Hamilton in 1838, by the Methodists"…
- 1830–1928One street, four names — and the Death Crossing
Michigan Street through New Carlisle is one street under four names: the Michigan Road, located in 1830; the Lincoln Highway from 1913; State Road 2 in the first state numbering; and U.S. 20.
- 1830–2026Hamilton: the first center, under its everyday name
Here the county's first Methodist society organized in 1830, in the cabin country of the Garwoods, Hubbards and Egberts; here the township's first school-house of the record stood, in Chapman's account; here the hotel-keeper whose enterprise founded the settlement kept his house…
- 1830–2026The frame: three kinds of holder, five named grounds, and a federal list that undercounts
The congregation ground is Hamilton Church Cemetery, laid out with the Methodist society of 1830 at the township's first center.
- 1830–2026Family grounds, and the register that stays silent
The GNIS-derived listing that seats this township's cemeteries warns, in its own text, that small private and family burial grounds may not appear in the public records at all…
- 1830–todayBurial grounds and communal institutions — the religious institutions between the congregations
The oldest is congregation ground: the Hamilton Church Cemetery at Hamilton, established 1830 with the Methodist society itself, entered in the Indiana Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry and marked by the Indiana Historical Bureau in 2013…
- 1830–todayHamilton Church Cemetery: the 1830 ground
The Methodist society organized at Hamilton in 1830 — the first congregation organized in St. Joseph County, on the Religion section's record — and its cemetery is the ground of that congregation, at the old Chicago Road crossing in the township's northeast, where the village of Hamilton stood.
- 18321832: the Black Hawk alarm and the fort
In the Black Hawk War summer of 1832 the settlement on Terre Coupee Prairie heard that an Indian had killed a white man near present Chicago.
- 1832–18331832–1833: the Tippecanoe treaties and the removal treaty
Three treaties of October 1832 and the Treaty of Chicago of 1833 complete the instrument roll; none of them takes this ground, which was already ceded.
- 1834–1880The prairie holders: Reynolds, Clark and Ranstead
Clark (born 1816 in Warren County, Ohio; came to the county in 1834) held 1,500 acres alone, dealt in lands, served as township supervisor, and was elected Justice of the Peace — "and refused to serve," the law's loss being the prairie's gain.
- 1834–1880The teachers: Samuel Bate and Professor Rowell
He married Harmony Allen in 1830 — she died in 1860 and lies beside him at Hamilton — and "arrived in this county 'Sept. 31, 1834,'" as Chapman prints it: September has thirty days, and the impossible date prints here as the record's own, flagged and uncorrected, because the error is itself part of what the record is.
- 1835The plat of 1835 and the promotion plat of 1837
Carlisle acknowledged the plat on 15 August 1835.
- 1835–1837The speculation era and the closing state line
The title account for the townsite closes in this state: tribal title in the Potawatomi Tribe; ceded by the second tract of the Treaty of 16 October 1826 (Royce Area 133); one quarter-section of section 34 reserved from the public course by the same treaty's schedule of scholar grants and located to Lazarus Bourissa in 1829…
- 1835–1837The plat as the city's first map, 1835 — and its lithographed second life, 1837
The town's first map of itself is its dedication: the plat Richard R. Carlisle laid on the scholar's quarter-section and dedicated on 15 August 1835, drawing a hundred-foot Michigan Street and sixty-foot cross streets across the prairie's edge before most of the lots had buyers.
- 1835–1841The Speculation Era and Its Bust: A Named Buyer, a Paper Town, and a State That Went Broke
The town's own Discover New Carlisle history records that in 1835 Lazarus Bourissa's 160 acres were purchased by Richard Risley Carlisle and the name was subsequently changed to New Carlisle…
- 1835–1843The establishment test — no New Carlisle office on 1 July 1836
The town was platted in 1835, and the post office was not there yet. The federal Table of Post Offices in the United States, on the first of July 1836, searched whole for the name, carries exactly one New Carlisle: Clark County, Ohio's.
- 1835–1861The two oldest houses: the item at its true size
That is printed as a finding about the record, not about the town: a village platted in 1835, with a merchant class by the 1850s, assuredly raised houses in the 1840s and 1850s, and some may stand.
- 1835–2026First, the paper: the 1835 plat and the geography of the additions
The town was platted in 1835 on the northeast quarter of section 34, the scholar quarter-section that had been Lazarus Bourissa's under the Treaty of 1826's schedule, purchased from the scholar's children by Richard R. Carlisle and dedicated by him on 15 August 1835 — the land leg's record, pointed to here and not re-dug.
- 1835–2026Closing synthesis: a town that grew by additions, inside a township of hamlets
A plat of 1835 on a quarter-section. A first addition old enough to be the cemetery ordinance's frame in 2026, its blocks and lots still administering burials.
- 1836–1843Correspondents: a future Vice President writes from New Carlisle, and a pioneer writes for the Gazette
New Carlisle produced no editor of record's record — but it housed, for five boyhood years, a boy who became one of Indiana's great editors: Schuyler Colfax came to New Carlisle in 1836, aged thirteen, with his mother and his stepfather George W. Matthews, and lived here until the family moved to South Bend in 1841…
- 1836–1847The stage-road town: Cranmer, Ivens, the Mathews store — and Schuyler Colfax
Richard Cranmer built the town's hotel in 1836 and sold it to Joseph Ivens, whose house won, Chapman says, a "great reputation" on the stage line; when Mrs. R. J. Pidge arrived in 1847, the hotel was still Ivens', and the post office — established 1837 — sat in a blacksmith shop.
- 1837–1880Law in the township: justices, riders, and one disorder
Israel Rush, the first Justice of the Peace, died in 1837. Henry H. Clark, the prairie holder, was elected Justice of the Peace in his turn "and refused to serve" — the record's only refusal, and a measure of the office's burdens.
- 1837–1885Booster cartography, named as persuasion
The first is this section's hinge: the 1837 lithographed plat with its beautiful view, printed in New York "in numbers" to circulate in the East — a plat drawn not to record the town but to sell it, its streets' widths honest and its emptiness composed, the proprietor's cartography in the pure form.
- 1837–2026Terre Coupee: the vacated plat, the railroad name, and the parish that carries it now
Howard's Terre Coupee section gives the instrument whole: the plat was surveyed by Thomas P. Bulla for Jacob Egbert and acknowledged 12 April 1837; additions by Egbert and Hubbard were acknowledged 30 January 1841; and on 10 June 1841 the county commissioners vacated the plat entire.
- 1837–2026The bird's-eye that was, and the ones that were not
The panoramic class prints its negative for this town, and the negative has a shape: New Carlisle published a town view once, in 1837, and no copy is located; no later bird's-eye of the town stands in the record read at all.
- 1837–2026The forecast record, scored; and the present state of the count
A town's forecasts are part of its population history, and New Carlisle's record opens with an act of persuasion: the extended plat of 1837, lithographed in New York with "a beautiful view of the town overlooking Terre Coupee prairie," prepared in numbers to circulate in the East and attract settlers…
- 1838–1843Removal: the dated course, and the band that stayed
The Michigan removal clock ran three years from the 1833 treaty's proclamation on 21 February 1835, expiring 21 February 1838.
- 1838–2000The architects of the town's buildings
Oliver Emery, named by Howard as the architect of the Hamilton Methodist church of 1838–1841, stands alone: the only designer attached to any building in the township in any source read for this build.
- 1838–2024The churches as buildings: one named architect, one church that left by rail
The Religion section owns the congregations; this article owns their buildings, and the buildings' record runs from a named architect in 1838 to a fiberglass steeple in 1968.