North Liberty, Indiana · 19th century
1890s
13 dated events in 1890s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 13 dated mentions
1890s
- 1890–1893The Wabash building: the Montpelier & Chicago, 1890–1893
The road was built under a name the Wabash itself used only on paper: the Montpelier & Chicago Railroad Company, whose articles were filed in Indiana on 28 February 1890.
- 1892St. Philip's lightning strike, 1892 — pointer
The Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana Archives records of St. Philip's: "In 1892, the church was struck by lightning and severely damaged."
- 1892–1896The North Liberty Herald: the first paper, 1892 to about 1896
The town's first newspaper was the North Liberty Herald, established in 1892. The carrier is the National Register nomination for the Commercial Historic District (Garner, 2012), read in its own text: "The town's first newspaper, the North Liberty Herald, was established in 1892 and operated for four years."
- 1892–1967Media as business: a pointer only — the papers' whole course is a later pass's
The North Liberty Herald, established 1892 and operated four years to about 1896, was the town's first paper; its plant's address stands in a small conflict reserved to that pass…
- 1893The railroad age
The Story of North Liberty section fixes the frame: North Liberty "for two generations was the junction of two railroads, both now abandoned"…
- 1893–1894The railroad arrivals as civic days — tested, not carried at event size
The settler class for a celebration account is the South Bend and Walkerton papers of 1893–94 and the railroad trade press — the town's own paper does not reach back that far.
- 1893–1989Two railroads, 1893 and 1894 — and none today
A church periodical carries the town-level proof: "The Wabash railroad has passed through [North Liberty] the present year" (The Spirit of Missions, August 1893).
- 1893–1989Two lines, one junction, none today
What the two lines were, in order: the Wabash's Chicago Extension, an east–west trunk built through the town in 1893 under the Montpelier & Chicago Railroad Company and run in succession as the Wabash's Fourth District and, after the Norfolk & Western lease of 1964, the Gary District; and the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa…
- 1894Incorporation: 8 June 1894
The town was duly incorporated on 8 June 1894 — Howard's whole statement on the act, and the instrument behind it is not in the reached record.
- 1895–1916Dairy: the Schlosser Brothers creamery, bought 1895, operating in 1916
The Plymouth Weekly Republican of 30 November 1911 (read first-hand) profiles Schlosser Brothers of Plymouth, "the largest manufacturers of butter in Indiana," and dates the firm's expansion in a single sentence: "The first extension of the business came with the purchase of creameries at Wanatah in 1890; Hanna, in 1892…
- 1895–1962The North Liberty News: 1895–1962, Dell Woodward's paper
The North Liberty News was founded in 1895, a year before its predecessor folded, and outlived it by sixty-six years.
- 1895–1962Freight life: milk cans, an elevator, and what the record cannot weigh
The town's freight life is documented at the scale a small station leaves: milk cans lined up on the Central's platform in the Albert postcard view — dairy country shipping its morning cans by rail…
- 1896–1897Before the saucers: the 1896–97 airship wave, tested here
The great airship wave of 1896–97 — thousands of reports of a powered, lighted airship across the Midwest, Indiana included — was tested against this ground specifically.