New Carlisle, Indiana · 19th century
1880s
14 dated events in 1880s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 14 dated mentions
1880s
- 1880The twenty-three oldest: the census list of 1880
From the 1880 census, as furnished by the enumerators and filed in the clerk's office at South Bend, Chapman prints every person in the county over seventy-five.
- 1880The richest-man test, run explicitly: "said to be the richest man in St. Joseph county"
The claim is quoted to its contemporary source first: Chapman, 1880, page 766 — "John Reynolds, said to be the richest man in St. Joseph county."
- 1880The defining feature: a lake-prairie on the divide, measured and named
The prairie first, in Chapman's measure (p. 765): Terre Coupee prairie is "over four miles in diameter and contains 3,000 or 4,000 acres," its land at $80 to $120 an acre in 1880, "almost as level as a barn floor, and just sandy enough"…
- 1880The first press: the New Carlisle Gazette of 1880, and the end the record contradicts
New Carlisle's press begins, on the record reached, in 1880: the New Carlisle Gazette is the earliest paper the directory seats in the town — forty-five years after the plat, in a village the state gazetteer of 1884–85 describes as an enterprising place of 1,000 inhabitants on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern…
- 1880The New Carlisle Gazette: the town's paper, as a source about itself
Chapman, writing in the year of the event, gives the founding at contemporary strength: the Gazette "established as an independent newspaper by G. H. Alward of South Bend and G. M. Fountain of Mishawaka; first number issued Feb. 6, 1880," a six-column folio enlarged to seven columns at its eleventh number…
- 1880–2020The census line: six hundred for forty years, then the climb
The published decennial series opens in 1880; no separate returns for the town appear in the table for 1850–1870.
- 1880–2020The series in full, 1880–2020 — and the three censuses that are missing
The federal census has counted New Carlisle as a separate place in every enumeration from 1880 to 2020, and the line it draws is the Story of New Carlisle section of this section: 1880, 530; 1890, 607; 1900, 597; 1910, 612; 1920, 609; 1930, 718; 1940, 747; 1950, 983; 1960, 1,376; 1970, 1,434; 1980, 1,439; 1990, 1,446…
- 1880–2020The eras read off the numbers
First, the long plateau of the railroad age, 1880–1920: from 530 to 609, a gain of 14.9 percent across forty years, containing two outright declines — 607 to 597 between 1890 and 1900 (−1.6 percent), 612 to 609 between 1910 and 1920 (−0.5 percent).
- 2000sThe ethnic superlatives: "second in size in the State," against "~300 families"
The first is Chapman's, at first hand, of the Good Templars' Olive Branch Lodge No. 149: "From Nov. 1, 1878, to Aug. 1, 1880, the membership increased from 95 to 143, and the lodge is now the second in size in the State."
- 1884–1885Emerick's Opera House: the gazetteer's one line, and the house the record has not given back
The opera-house test, run the Walkerton way, comes back positive — at directory strength, and only at directory strength: Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1884–85, in its statewide "Theatres and Halls" list, names Emerick's Opera House, New Carlisle .
- 1884–2026The parish school's present state: tested against the diocese, and standing as a gap
The banked course stands: St. Stanislaus Kostka's school ran 1884–1925, and reopened on 11 September 1995.
- 1884–todaySt. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Terre Coupee — the Catholic parish, founded 1884
In 1884 the Rev. Valentine Czyzewski, C.S.C., pastor of St. Hedwig in South Bend, founded the parish and chose its patron, the boy saint Stanislaus Kostka.
- 1884–todayThe Terre Coupee parish ground: a tested question
A Polish parish seated since 1884, with a school, a rectory, a hall and a grotto, would ordinarily keep a burying ground of its own — and for St. Stanislaus Kostka at Terre Coupee, no record read for this build attests one.
- 1886–1929The Sanborn run, measured: five editions, on film, unopened
The fire-insurance map is the most truthful portrait a small town ever sat for, and New Carlisle sat five times: the Sanborn Map Company's editions for this town run 1886, 1893, 1899, 1907 and 1929…