New Carlisle, Indiana · 20th century
1910s
10 dated events in 1910s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 10 dated mentions
1910s
- 1910The closing waves, school by school — at the strength the record allows
No. 5 Public School, Tulip Road — the one firm name-and-place of the one-room era: in the fall of 1910 the parish of St. Stanislaus "bought the No. 5 Public School from Olive Township and moved it to the foundation of the old church," the building standing "roughly a quarter mile north of the present church on Tulip Road"…
- 1913–1928Before the branch: plates by mail, and the notary's desk
For the first motorists of Olive Township, there was no branch to go to: Indiana began issuing state license plates in 1913, and the transaction ran by mail.
- 1914–2026The federation line: the county's United Way, from 1914 to the present holder
The federation that covers Olive Township is the county's, and its own account dates it to 1914.
- 1915Built-environment reversals and industrial survivals: the church that left by rail, the elevator, the living sign
St. Mary's Episcopal church, New Carlisle's Episcopal building, was moved by rail out of town in 1915 and re-erected in East Chicago as the Church of the Good Shepherd — a congregation's whole building riding the same railroad corridor that built the town, printed here from the banked parish record.
- 1916Consumer Technology: The Pump Listing, Tested — and a Searched Negative Beyond It
The 1916–17 Polk Gazetteer entry for New Carlisle ends its business roll with “Miller James W, pumps.”
- 1916–1917The directory era — Foster, Waynick, and Borden the dentist
The 1916 canvass carries the practice line at three chairs. Frank H. Foster, physician; Joseph B. Waynick, physician; Isaac W. Borden, dentist — the whole of the town's professional health roll in Polk's 1916–17 entry, with Francis D. Warner's drugs and notions as the trade's dispensing counter beside them.
- 1916–1991The industrial buildings as architecture: the elevator, the steel plants, and the absent brewery
Zahl's Elevator & Feed Mill, 301 East Michigan Street: the corridor's industrial landmark, a working grain elevator standing on the town's main street where the Farmers Grain Co stood in the 1916 directory…
- 1916–2026Natural gas and the wires — NIPSCO by tariff; the telephone course thin
Telephone and internet print at their true, small size: the 1916 directory header carries "Tel., W. U." — telephone and Western Union telegraph at the railroad — and the express lines "Am. and Wells Fargo & Co." beside it…
- 1917The Carnegie grant: $9,000, September 14, 1917
New Carlisle's library building was Carnegie money, granted in the last season of the giving: $9,000, dated September 14, 1917, for a building at 124 East Michigan Street.
- 1917–1921The Carnegie library as a building: 124 East Michigan Street
The town's best-documented civic building began as its library: the Carnegie building of 1921 at 124 East Michigan Street, raised on Andrew Carnegie's grant of 9,000 dollars dated 14 September 1917, and serving today as the Town Hall — the town governed out of its library.