New Carlisle, Indiana · 19th century
1870s
7 dated events in 1870s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 7 dated mentions
1870s
- 1871–1880The water-works of 1879
Chapman's municipal beat, printed whole: the works were first proposed in 1871 and met opposition; the measure required a two-thirds vote of the property holders; George H. Service offered to insure the sale of the bonds at par; and "$7,000 of bonds negotiated at par, at seven per cent., with a savings bank in Vermont, to run 15 years."
- 1871–1880The water-works of 1879 — voted, bonded, and built cheap
The project had first been proposed in 1871 and met "considerable opposition"; carrying it required a two-thirds vote of the property holders.
- 1875Good Templars — Olive Branch Lodge No. 149, seated in the register
Olive Branch Lodge No. 149 of the Independent Order of Good Templars was organized in New Carlisle 4 January 1875 by Grand Worthy Chief Templar J. J. Talbott.
- 1875The atlas trade: Higgins, Belden & Co., 1875
The subscription atlas is the nineteenth century's great local map machine, and its St. Joseph County volume — the Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, Indiana , published by Higgins, Belden & Co. of Chicago in 1875 — is the single most worked cartographic document in this entire build.
- 1875–1920The dry years: the township answered liquor with a lodge
Olive Branch Lodge No. 149 of the Independent Order of Good Templars was organized in New Carlisle 4 January 1875 by Grand Worthy Chief Templar J. J. Talbott.
- 1878–1880The name's telling: Terre Coupee, the lake that cut the land off
The ground's name comes down with a story attached, and the story has a teller — a writer in the South Bend Tribune in 1878, quoted whole by Chapman.
- 1879The water-works of 1879
"The citizens here built their water-works in 1879, when everything was cheap."