North Liberty, Indiana · 20th century
1960s
11 dated events in 1960s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 11 dated mentions
1960s
- 1960The laundry: the Modern Speed Wash, 103 W. Center, 1960 – and its ground's whole sequence
The Commercial District nomination's bibliography attests the hometown source: "New Building to House Laundry," North Liberty News, 6 October 1960.
- 1962The current holder whole: Oaklawn Psychiatric Center
Founded in 1962 and sponsored by Mennonite Health Services Alliance — accountable to Mennonite Church USA, Mennonite Brethren and Brethren in Christ churches — Oaklawn is described in its own record as the only faith-based mental health centre in Indiana.
- 1965The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, 11 April 1965 — the county's course proven; the township's share not shown
The National Weather Service, Northern Indiana, records the outbreak of April 11–12, 1965 as 47 tornadoes and 261 deaths across the Midwest.
- 1965–todayNorth Liberty Elementary: The Town's School Today
The school's earlier course is reached at one point before the present: in September 1965 Gary G. Nelson was its principal, announcing the opening enrollment for 7 September 1965 with eighth-grade pupils placed in the elementary building that year — a newspaper record at snippet strength, its grade table only partly recoverable.
- 1966–1981The Northern State years and the end
In 1966 the Shamrocks moved with their peers into the Northern State Conference — into the same league as the new John Glenn Falcons, the rivalry the schools file records.
- 1966–todayThe service clubs, at record size
The IRS exempt-organizations record, as carried in the nonprofit directories, holds two subordinate entries for the International Association of Lions Clubs at 26750 Quinn Road, North Liberty: one under the secondary name North Liberty Lions Club (EIN 35-6063801, ruling dated March 1966) and one under the secondary…
- 1968–todayThe Falcons, at the town's size
The Falcons began in 1968, in a corporation North Liberty did not yet belong to, and were the Shamrocks' rivals until the merger made them the town's own.
- 1969Potato Creek State Park: township ground, not town ground
The record gives the park three dates, and they print whole because they are three different events that looser sources conflate into one "establishment": the area was designated to become a park in 1969; the six square miles were formally dedicated on 6 June 1977 by Governor Otis R. Bowen, as Potato Creek Recreation Area…
- 1969Potato Creek State Park: 3,840 acres and a lake a man nagged into being
The park was established in 1969, before the lake, on primarily farmland. Native peoples used the area for hunting and fishing and gathered the wild tubers that gave the creek its name.
- 1969–todayThe museum on township ground: the Potato Creek Nature Center
The park, at 25601 State Road 4 in Liberty Township, was established in 1969 on what was primarily farmland, and its reservoir was created in 1977 (DNR park history).
- 1969–todayThe club movement's surviving form: Tri Kappa, Zeta Pi, 1969
Kappa Kappa Kappa — Tri Kappa — is Indiana's own women's philanthropic sorority, founded at Indianapolis in 1901 to promote charity, culture, and education; its chapter list records the Zeta Pi chapter at North Liberty, chartered 28 March 1969 and active.