Osceola, Indiana · 19th century
1880s
13 dated events in 1880s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 13 dated mentions
1880s
- 1880The settler roll, second half: Chapman's remaining Penn sketches, J–W
Germany 9 May 1834; erected a saw-mill in 1864 and still operated it in 1880, with a Mishawaka lumber yard (the directory prints his settlement as 1841 against Chapman's 1850 emigration — flagged).
- 1880The baseline survey: Chapman's natural history of the county, 1880
C. Chapman & Co.'s History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago, 1880) — "Natural History — Quadrupeds — Birds — Reptiles — Fishes — Plants," pp. 340–345…
- 1880–2005Extirpation and return, four arcs: deer, wild turkey, otter, beaver
The trade's first casualty here as everywhere: Chapman already lists the beaver gone in 1880.
- 1880–2020The town series, whole
The town's decennial line, with each census's status stated: 1880: 129 — settled from the Tenth Census itself, the unincorporated-places list in Volume I (p. 158), which returns "Osceola — Penn township — Saint Joseph county — 129"…
- 1880–2022The frame: the county in numbers, the township at its size
Chapman's agricultural chapter prints a township-by-township table of the county's products for 1880 from the assessors' returns, in which Penn stands with its own row…
- 1880–2022The county in numbers: the agricultural-census frame as a dated series
The nineteenth-century structure is carried in the published census volumes the row names as settler class — the decennial agriculture volumes (1880–1920) and the quinquennial Censuses of Agriculture (1925 onward, incl. the 1950 Vol. I county tables for Indiana) print number of farms, acreage and average size for St.…
- 1882–1886Horse cars and the first electric experiments: tested for Osceola, and found only in South Bend
South Bend holds Indiana's first recorded electrification attempt: in 1882 the South Bend Street Railway tried Van Depoele's electric system and the car moved only feet before the current dissipated in the track.
- 1883–1966The Sanborn test: no fire-insurance survey of Osceola exists in the collections searched
Tested negative, with the county's positive runs placed beside it: the Sanborn Map Company surveyed Indiana's insurable towns from the 1880s to the middle 1950s — as many as ten editions for some towns, in the State Library's summary…
- 1884–1885The 1884–85 census of firms: eleven listings, and the banking line
Read as a census, the village of 1884 is a mill seat with a depot trade: two mills, two blacksmiths, two carpenters, one store, one livestock dealer, one grain dealer who was also the railroad's agent, one physician, one justice…
- 1884–1917The directory houses: the long tail, recovered — and what it holds for Osceola
Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer for 1884–85 (vol.
- 1884–2026Chain presence at honest size: none in the gazetteer age, no supermarket ever seated — and one discount chain store on Lincolnway today
The historical canvasses hold no chain at all: every name in Polk's two whole censuses of this town — the eleven listings of 1884–85 and the five of 1916–17, printed whole in Businesses…
- 1885–1940The Catholic orders as a suite
Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1 , founded January 1885 — the Irish Catholic line, in Howard. The St. Joseph County Federation of Catholic Societies — the county umbrella, in Howard.
- 1885–2026The ethnic and national nests, individually: the Falcons and the west-side clubs are South Bend's
The nests, named individually as the checklist requires — and every one of them South Bend's: the M.R. Falcons — the Mieczysław Romanowski Falcons, organised in South Bend in 1894 in the county's immigrant-societies record…