New Carlisle, Indiana · 19th century
1850s
7 dated events in 1850s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 7 dated mentions
1850s
- 1851The railroad of 1851
"The coming of the Lake Shore railroad, in 1851, secured the stability of the little municipality." So Howard writes, and the National Register nomination repeats the name; the build chain underneath the name is printed whole because the 1851 builder was not yet the "Lake Shore."
- 1851–2026The steam road under all its names: 1851 to Norfolk Southern
One railroad has run through New Carlisle since 1851, under six owners' names, and it has never moved.
- 1853–2026The enforcement succession, named in this section
From 1853–54 the Terre Coupee Anti-Horse-Thief Association's riders were "authorized to act as constables for the purposes of the association by a State law" (Chapman) — the township's first enforcement form, a mutual company's riders wearing a constable's authority for one class of crime.
- 1858–2026Gazetteers: each directory's form of the town
The earliest form reached in this build is Hawes' gazetteer of 1858–59, whose New Carlisle carries a Presbyterian church that no other record of the town preserves: the gazetteer's form of the town includes a congregation the ground has otherwise lost entire, and the Religion section carries it as a named gap with the…
- 1859–1978The philanthropy turn, measured: where the pools became institutions
1859: J. H. Service gives $500 to start the Methodist college — private money founding the building the town would buy for its school (the schools addendum carries the purchase).
- 1859–2024The Methodist Collegiate Institute: the town's grandest nineteenth-century building, gone in 2024
For a hundred sixty-five years the largest building of the town's first age stood on the Compton Street ground: the Methodist Collegiate Institute's brick pile of 1859, forty-four by seventy-five feet, two stories of brick raised for a college that the Schools section follows through its brief, earnest course.
- 1859–2026The ladder, level by level: what was closed, converted and rebuilt
Chapman, read at the page for this section, tells it whole: the Methodist Episcopal Church erected the two-story brick building, 44 by 75 feet, in 1859 as a Methodist college — the Collegiate Institute…