Osceola, Indiana · 20th century
1910s
20 dated events in 1910s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 20 dated mentions
1910s
- 1911–1928Markets whole: South Bend's curb market, 1911–1924, and the farmer's market that claims its line — the lineage claim tested
On 26 June 1911 Councilman Buechner introduced Ordinance No. 1600, "An ordinance establishing a Public Market on East Colfax Avenue"; after a 15-minute special session on 5 July 1911 re-passed it as Ordinance No. 1601 (8 to 1), and a fuller rulebook followed on 27 November 1911 as Ordinance No. 1618 (8 to 0, signed the next day).
- 1911–1942First flight and first field, separately dated
The area's first recorded airplane flight was made by the French aviator René Simon on 10 September 1911, flying a Blériot monoplane from a field near the southeast corner of Ironwood Road and Dragoon Trail, before a crowd the History Museum's record puts at 30,000.
- 1911–2019Screenwriters born here, carried as authors
George Seaton was born George Edward Stenius in South Bend on 17 April 1911. His screenwriting Oscars are Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and The Country Girl (1954); his nominations include The Song of Bernadette (1943) and Airport (1970).
- 1911–2026Second lives, shows, the accident record, and the small fields
The show line runs from the first exhibition — Simon's 1911 flight was itself an air meet performance (art-53-1) — through Mishawaka Airport's 1934 opening parade and jumps; a present-day festival on this ground was not verified in the record reached and is not claimed.
- 1912–1919Distribution counted as an export trade — sized, and bounded
Distribution counts as an export trade only where the network abroad is the business, and for this county the verifiable sizing is the flagship's: Studebaker's New York export office (opened 1912) , its London house (through which a foreign government bought hundreds of cars), its photographed houses of foreign…
- 1913–1928The named-auto-trail era whole: the Lincoln Highway here, 1913–1928, and the Dixie Highway tested
The Lincoln Highway through this town, with its span closed: the Lincoln Highway Association was formed in 1913 to promote a coast-to-coast road from New York to San Francisco; the route was announced 13 September 1913 and the highway formally dedicated 31 October 1913, 3,389 miles in its first official length.
- 1913–1928Before the branch: plates by mail, and the notary's desk
For the first motorists of Penn Township, there was no branch to go to: Indiana began issuing state license plates in 1913, and the transaction ran by mail.
- 1913–2015The broadcast tail, and the Black press: South Bend's lines dug, Penn Township tested
The Black press of South Bend, from the state's African American newspaper list: the Observer (1913); the South Bend Forum (1923, weekly); the South Bend Journal (1928, weekly, edited by William D. LaMarr); the South Bend Herald-Times (1950s); and The Reformer (1967–1971, weekly, its run preserved in a free online archive)…
- 1913–todayThe Lincolnway trade and the present seated commerce, as of November 2026
The highway made the village's second frontage: the Lincoln Highway of 1913, on the Vistula Road's course of 1833, ran through the additions the railroad had drawn — Lincolnway West and East, the town's main street today as State Road 933 (the Story of Osceola section carries the road's whole).
- 1914–1915The specialty soils whole: the muck, the mint, and the truck crops named one by one
The governing open source is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's own muck-land survey: H. R. Smalley, Management of Muck-Land Farms in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan , Farmers' Bulletin 761 (10 Oct. 1916), a field study of 140 muck farms (100 analysed for the farm year 1 Mar. 1914 – 1 Mar. 1915) in the…
- 1915–1954The chief as casualty and the chiefs as rescuers: Erskine, the receivership, and Hoffman and Vance
Albert Russel Erskine, president from July 1915, is the Depression's chief-as-casualty in the American record's plainest form: he resigned on 18 March 1933 when the Studebaker Corporation went into receivership…
- 1916–1917The 1916–17 census of firms: five listings, two grocers — and the mills gone
The village of 1916 is a food-and-hardware village: two grocers (Carroll and Curtis — the second a name the township roll has carried since the first settler lists, James Curtis's family, though the record does not state the descent and none is asserted), one general store that also sold the farm implements the…
- 1916–1977The origin ground: fairgrounds racing and the oval inside Playland Park, each dated
Playland Park, South Bend — bounded by the St. Joseph River, Ironwood Drive and Lincolnway East — began as the trolley park Springbrook Park in 1880; a race track was added in 1916; Pete Redden became manager in 1924 and the park took the Playland name.
- 1916–2026The anchor firms' own pictures: tested by name, negative per firm
The town's one industrial firm of the film age at anchor size is the creamery: Crystal Springs Creamery Co. stands in the Indiana gazetteer's Osceola entry for 1916–17, and Howard's sketch of George E. Moon names him "president, treasurer and salesman of the Crystal Springs Creamery" on his 240-acre Penn Township farm.
- 1917–1918The First World War: a Gold Star roll with no Osceola name on it
Both absences are printed as findings with their searches; the settlers are named in the closing register (the service-card index by residence; the South Bend Tribune 's 1917–19 files).
- 1917–1941The wars at home, at spine strength: no camp, no war plant in the town — the county's purse, the valley's plants at boundary, and the flu's missing toll
In 1917–18 and again in 1941–45, Osceola's men trained at camps in other states, named in their own records in Wars; the town itself held no garrison, and the Story of Osceola section claims none.
- 1917–2019Crusades and journalists: the Klan fight at full strength, the Pulitzer test, the bylines, the contraction
The suffrage fight ran on the same front pages a few years earlier (the News-Times' May and July 1917 mayoral-candidacy headlines are dug whole in the Women's History addendum, row #675), which is the pattern of this ground: the papers were the arena, not the spectators.
- 1918–1933The dry years in Penn Township
Indiana went dry before the nation did, its statewide prohibition law taking effect in April 1918, ahead of the federal amendment's January 1920 start and running to the national repeal of December 1933…
- 1919–1966The institutions the community built: Hering House, the NAACP chapter, and the Allens
The South Bend branch of the NAACP was founded in 1919 at Mount Zion Baptist Church (founded 1890; 116 North Birdsell Street; reorganised and renamed Pilgrim Baptist in 1935), and Indiana Landmarks records that Olivet A.M.E. hosted early meetings of the branch as well…
- 1919–todayThe makers, one house per article in one article: Claeys the candy house, the chocolate house, Dainty Maid, Macri's — all South Bend and Mishawaka houses
The candy house founded in a garage in 1919 is verified whole: Jerome C. Claeys founded Claeys Candy Inc. in a South Bend garage in 1919 — the Indiana Senate's centennial resolution (2019) fixes the garage on North Blaine Avenue and the first product as handmade candy at five cents…