Osceola, Indiana · 20th century
1980s
6 dated events in 1980s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 6 dated mentions
1980s
- 1984–2026The Osceola Music Festival: the town's one standing institution
Every August the town gathers itself into one park for the institution it built and kept: the Osceola Music Festival began in 1984, during Osceola Businessman Appreciation Days, and a few years later settled into the form that carried it for three decades…
- 1985–2008The first-rank producer at credit level: Sydney Pollack — the producing filmography, Mirage Enterprises, and the credits through death
He founded Mirage Enterprises in 1985 — the company's own and the trade record agree on the year (the Empire trade account of the Minghella partnership states it in so many words: "Mirage, which was founded in 1985 by … Sydney Pollack").
- 1986–1988The takeover: the commission takes the branches, 1986–1988
The patronage system's end began in 1986, and it was announced as a service scandal as much as a political one: the Indianapolis Business Journal's retrospective states the sequence plainly…
- 1987–2026The county park's game: disc golf, water, and the tubing hill
The town's second sporting ground is a county park, and its signature game is played with discs: Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park — opened to the public in 1987, grown to 214 acres, its ground and name carried whole in this build's Parks leg…
- 1987–2026Ferrettie/Baugo Creek County Park — 214 acres at the town's edge, opened 1987
It opened to the public in 1987, named for former County Commissioner Henry Ferrettie; its land was reclaimed — the park's ground included the former Mishawaka municipal dump, and approximately twenty acres of its northern portion were reclaimed from a former landfill.
- 1988–2014The memory-keepers: the town's history of itself
What a town without a newspaper keeps instead is a book: J. Harold Kiracofe's History of Osceola , published by the Osceola Historical Society in 1988, is the town's own account of itself…