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1913 – 1928 · Run B #180
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. In Indiana the original route ran through Fort Wayne, Goshen, Elkhart, Osceola, Mishawaka and South Bend — the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association's own town list for the 1913 route names Osceola in that order — entering St. Joseph County from Elkhart County at the Ash Road county line and running west on present State Road 933, the old Vistula Road's course, through the middle of town; the Association's turn-by-turn guide allots the county 27.0 miles of the 1913 route. Through Osceola the highway is Lincolnway, and the street name is the highway's fossil, as the Story of Osceola section prints it. The trail's span on this ground closes in 1928 on the association's own showing: the federal numbering of 1926 had already laid US 30 across northern Indiana on a straighter southern line, and the Lincoln Highway's final alignment of 1928–1930 followed it — the Association's 1928 route towns in Indiana run Columbia City, Warsaw, Plymouth, Hanna and Wanatah, and Osceola is not among them. The concrete markers the Association and the Boy Scouts set in 1928 marked that then-current, southern route. Osceola's street kept the highway's name and its pavement but lost the highway: what remained was the numbered succession the corridors record already carries — US 20, with US 33 concurrent, over the street, today State Road 933. The dated span of the named trail on this ground is therefore 1913 to 1928, fifteen years, dated at both ends from the trail record itself.
The second named trail, tested: the floor asks for the second trail as a feeder that became a main line, in the Dixie Highway's form. The Dixie Highway Association, formed in 1915, promoted its Canada-to-Florida routes, and its Indiana line is real — but it is South Bend's, not this ground's. Before the association organized, Indiana newspapers were already promoting an Indianapolis-to-South Bend road under the Dixie name; the built line ran up the Michigan Road corridor to its northern end at South Bend, where Michigan Street is the Dixie Highway and crosses the Lincoln Highway at Michigan and Washington streets — the corner the state marker for both highways occupies. The Dixie Highway thus fed the Lincoln Highway at the county seat, ten miles west of here; it never turned east, and no part of it touches Osceola or Penn Township. Verdict: tested negative on this ground, positive at the boundary — the county's second named trail exists, and its terminus crossing is the floor's signature-crossing form (Michigan and Washington) standing in South Bend, while this ground's own corridor crossing, the two 1832–33 surveys at the creek, is carried in the Story of Osceola section at premise strength, as the audit already holds it.
Indiana Historical Bureau marker 71.2010.1, “Lincoln & Dixie Highways,” with its annotations (Association formed 1913; route announced 13 September 1913; the original Indiana route through Fort Wayne, Elkhart and South Bend; the Dixie Highway Association formed 1915; the pre-association Indianapolis-to-South Bend “Dixie” promotion; the highways' intersection at Michigan and Washington Streets, South Bend, Lincoln Way for the one and Michigan Street for the other; the later 1928 shift that avoided South Bend); Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, byway history and 1913-route turn-by-turn guide (Osceola in the 1913 town list; the 1928 route towns without it; St. Joseph County 27.0 miles; US 30 and the 1928 date of the markers); this build's Spine (Lincolnway as the highway's fossil; the 1913 entry on the Vistula course).