Osceola, Indiana · 19th century
1830s
25 dated events in 1830s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 25 dated mentions
1830s
- 1830–1880Byrkits and Curtises: orchard seeds and a chief's grave
1873) and Catharine (Bumgardner) Byrkit, North Carolina natives who came by Ohio and Kentucky; Edmund came to the county in 1830, selected a location, planted apple seeds, went back and brought the family the following year — the township's orchards descend, on the sketch's telling, from those seeds.
- 1830–1880Judies and Eutzlers: two families of the township's first decade
Three datings — 1830, 1831, 1832 — and three spellings of the name stand as the three sources print them. Jacob Eutzler, proprietor of the stillborn Greensburg plat of 1835 in range 3 east, stands in the rival-plats article; his relation to George's family is unstated and unassigned.
- 1830–1907First courts, first sheriff, first jail: the county's law, at boundary
St. Joseph County was organized in 1830, its government passing to a board of commissioners on January 19, 1831.
- 1831The county layer: sheriff, prosecutor, and jail, at boundary
The sheriff's line opens with the 1831 frame of the article above and is carried in the modern era by the anchors every build in this county prints: Sokol, elected in 1966; Speybroeck, holding the office 1995–1998; Canarecci, who resigned in 2010; Grzegorek, elected that November; Redman, holding 2019–2026 and term-limited out…
- 1831–1834The first houses, one by one, none merged
South Bend's first hotel was Peter Johnson's, of 1831 — and its name prints with its small conflict whole: The History Museum's firsts list gives "1831…
- 1831–1880The Baugo mills and the Bancrofts: three accounts of the first mill, none reconciled
The conflict, whole: Chapman (pp. 789–790): "In 1831 or '32 a saw-mill was built on Bawbawgo creek, near where the village of Oceola now stands.
- 1831–1880The Irelands: first justices, a rival plat, and a memoir that will not sign its author
Ireland (Chapman, p. 819): born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, 28 June 1807, son of Andrew and Elizabeth Ireland; the family removed in 1816 to Preble County, Ohio, where his father died in 1822…
- 1831–1884The mills on the Baugo: an unnamed first sawmill (1831 or '32) → Zelotes Bancroft's second mill → the brothers' saw-and-grist mill of 1856 → Frederick Lang's sawmill (1864) → the directory's last mill (1884)
The milling succession is the Story of Osceola section of this section, and it is Chapman's text that carries it: "In 1831 or '32 a saw-mill was built on Bawbawgo creek, near where the village of Oceola now stands.
- 1831–1907The county asylum first: the poorhouse, the county home, and its insane charges
St. Joseph County's commissioners began renting houses in South Bend for the destitute in 1831. In 1846 the county established a “permanent” asylum on 120 acres near Nutwood, named White Hall.
- 1831–1916The first-forms layer: the first mill's accounts printed whole, the Hawes test, and tested negatives for tannery, tavern, and market house
The first gristmill, and the first sawmill before it, in every account the record holds — printed whole, none reconciled: (1) Chapman (1880), pp. 789–790: a saw-mill built on Baugo Creek in 1831 or '32, builder unnamed…
- 1832The Civil Frame: County and Township
The government arrived while the ground was still being taken — and the two county histories date its arrival differently: Howard gives the full sequence: a first division on 25 November 1830 by the board of justices, under which this ground lay in Portage township's eastern reach and its three-mile strip was still…
- 1832–1959The township district century: fourteen districts, fourteen one-room schools
Schooling on this ground begins as a township act: in the fall of 1832, the year Penn Township itself was laid out, the township was divided into fourteen school districts.
- 1832–2026The frame: how a town inside a township keeps a service record
The ground: Penn Township was organized on 6 May 1832, one of St. Joseph County's three original townships, and it holds two towns: Mishawaka, a city, and Osceola, platted on 17 November 1837 on the St. Joseph River where Baugo Creek comes in.
- 1833The small houses, carried at their record size
William L. Earl's Mishawaka tavern of 1833 (art-69-1) is the smallest house of record: a tavern stand run by an iron-works partner, known to history because its keeper's daughter remembered the meteor shower and the swindle story, not because the house advertised.
- 1833–1926Surface succession on the founding road: dirt, gravel, pavement — the dated parts, and the gap between them
What the record reached actually dates: the Vistula Road of 1833 was a located state road in the period's ordinary form — a surveyed line cleared through the timber along the river's south bank, fording the creek at Eagle Point and Stevely's Point…
- 1833–2026Lincolnway through town
One street has carried every age of the road: the way through Osceola began as the Vistula Road of 1833, fording Baugo Creek at Eagle Point and Stevely's Point (the Story of Osceola section leg carries the survey and the fords), became the Lincoln Highway in the named-roads age, and carried the through automobile…
- 1834–1844The towns that were not: Williamsport, Canton, Greensburg
Williamsport — surveyed by Thomas P. Bulla for proprietor John Newell, plat acknowledged 13 December 1834, at the junction of the St. Joseph River and Babaugo Creek in section 9; it "has left no record but its plat."
- 1834–2026Banks: a tested absence — the money trade that was always somewhere else
The state-bank era: the first bank of the county record is the State Bank of Indiana, chartered 28 January 1834, whose South Bend branch opened 24 November 1838…
- 1837Incorporation: a town on the map for ninety years before it was a town in law
John A. Hendricks recorded the first plat of the town on November 17, 1837, and named it — probably for Chief Osceola of the Seminole, then prominent in the news — but a recorded plat makes a place, not a municipality.
- 1837–2026The frame: a township's churches before it was a town's
The first church organized anywhere in Penn Township — the First Baptist Church of Penn Township, constituted in February 1837 — was also the first Baptist church organized in St. Joseph County, and it stood not in the village but on the township's farm ground south of Mishawaka.
- 1838The portrait class: the namesake's face is the best-documented thing about him — the founder's is the gap
George Catlin painted him at Fort Moultrie in January 1838 — Os-ce-o-lá, The Black Drink , now the Smithsonian American Art Museum's (accession 1985.66.301) — and wrote that he painted him "precisely in the costume in which he stood for his picture."
- 1838–1840Removal, dated: the column that did not pass, and the operation that emptied the valley
The great column of 1838 did not pass this ground, and it is printed as not-here: the Twin Lakes reserve, in the county below this one, fell due on 5 August 1838 under the Yellow River treaty of 5 August 1836 — a signature Menominee protested on 4 November 1837 had been forged for him.
- 1838–1869The founding bankers as a roll, and the banker who rescued the bank as a chief in his own right
The founding bankers' roll for this county is dug in the Granger banks addendum at Howard strength, and it is restated here as a roll, at roll size, because this section owns the men as founders: the State Bank of Indiana's South Bend branch (opened 24 November 1838) was secured through Dr. John A. Henricks, the Hon.…
- 1838–2005The working map run: the region's street sheets as a dated series, and where Osceola enters them
It opens with an 1838 map of South Bend and an 1876 plan of South Bend and Mishawaka (digitized); then a 1903 map of the city of South Bend; Hibberd's maps of 1908, of South Bend and of Mishawaka & River Park; a 1921 map of South Bend and Mishawaka; the Greater South Bend and Mishawaka sheets of 1937, 1939 and 1941…
- 1839–2026Dealerships: the horse-trade ground, a tested franchise negative, and the McKinley used-car row
The dealerships leg opens, as its checklist requires, on the horse-trade ground the motor trade inherited: Penn Township's smith-and-wagon trade is named from 1839 — Andrew Taylor, "Blacksmith and Wagon Maker," settled that year on the atlas directory's line (his post-office cell lost in transcription, flagged in People)…