New Carlisle Churches, Schools and Civic Institutions

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New Carlisle Churches, Schools and Civic Institutions

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Schools, Churches & Civic Life

§ 18New Carlisle Churches and ReligionReligion15 entry pages § 12New Carlisle Schools: The Town and the New Prairie United School CorporationNew Carlisle's schools are the schools of a two-county corporation. The town stands in Olive Township, St. Joseph County, but the New Prairie United School Corporation (NPUSC) — Indiana school corporation 4805, NCES…15 entry pages § 13New Carlisle Libraries: The New Carlisle-Olive Township Public LibraryEvery other institution in this history has a counterpart somewhere else — another town's school, another congregation, another paper. The library has none, because it is the town's own invention in the strictest sense…17 entry pages § 38Health and Care in New CarlisleNew Carlisle's health history is the country-doctor system at its fullest small-town length: a physician practicing from 1837 who made the town his home, a second doctor settled in 1866 who was still its physician — and…11 entry pages § 78Medical Advancements and New CarlisleNew Carlisle has no hospital and never had one. That fact, tested negative in the banked health file, is the ground this section stands on. Care here is real — practitioners since 1837 and a modern clinic today — but…11 entry pages § 51Mental Health Institutions and New CarlisleNo mental-health institution has ever stood in New Carlisle, and the leg is the record of where this township's people were sent instead: to the county home at South Bend, to the state hospitals at Logansport and…6 entry pages § 50New Carlisle CemeteriesCemeteries7 entry pages § 17New Carlisle Charities: The County's Net at the Township's ShareNew Carlisle never held a charity of county scale, and this section does not pretend otherwise. What the township held was relief at household scale — a township trustee's poor relief, lodge benevolence, a mutual…11 entry pages § 39New Carlisle Foundations and NonprofitsNonprofits10 entry pages § 76Major Donations in New CarlisleFour rows were left thin by the depth audit. The town frame throughout is the Town of New Carlisle and Olive Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana. South Bend giving — including the Joan Kroc pattern — is boundary…5 entry pages § 48New Carlisle Secret Societies and Fraternal OrdersThe fraternal record of this township was scattered across four files and one note: the Masonic-line lodge in the civic register, the temperance lodge filed under Crime, the benefit association filed under Crime as…5 entry pages § 41New Carlisle Clubs, Lodges and Private SocietiesRich Private Clubs8 entry pages § 66Couples' and Private Social Clubs and New Carlisle: The Documented RecordThis section prints at the record's size, and says so in its opening, as its floor requires: the four classes the discipline names were searched — the searchable newspaper record, the reported state and federal case…

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