Osceola, Indiana · 19th century
1820s
4 dated events in 1820s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 4 dated mentions
1820s
- 1826–1833The founding road whole — and the Michigan Road, tested and failed on this ground
The Michigan Road test, run first and printed whole: the Michigan Road was conceived in the 1826 Treaty of Mississinewa, by which the Potawatomi and Miami ceded the strip for a road from the Ohio River to Lake Michigan…
- 1827–1907Plumb the merchant and Smith the station agent: the village's two working men of record
Henry S. Plumb (Chapman, p. 834) is the earliest Osceola merchant the assigned sources name by name and date: born in Delaware County, Ohio, 23 August 1827, son of George and Abbie Plumb; three years in Iowa and three in Illinois; then the war…
- 1828–1860First crops and the orchard seeds: the prairie broken, and Edmund Byrkit's apples
The first farming of Penn Township was subsistence at the edge of someone else's market: the Moats on section 17 from 1828, the roll of first settlers the People leg carries whole — Holt, Skinner, Cottrell, Curtis, the Byrkits, the Irelands…
- 1828–2026The frame: two bands, one township, and a town that moved
The frame: Band 1 of this section runs from the first settlers of 1828 to the generation Howard interviewed in 1907; its stage is the town of Osceola and Penn Township's farm country outside the city of Mishawaka, which shares the township and takes its own people in its own build.