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Businesses — Roseland, Indiana
Before the Town's Trade: No Store Yet
Polk Indiana Gazetteer & Business Directory 1916–17, pt. 2, pp. 962–964, read first-hand
Roseland's business history starts from a directory silence that is itself evidence. The Polk gazetteer for 1916–17 — the state's standard business directory for the incorporation years — contains no entry for Roseland, St.…
Fred Ullery's grocery — the town's first named firm
Town Code §11.01, as carried in Pass R-1
The first Roseland business the record names is a grocery, and it is named because the town was voted into being inside it. The incorporation election of 1915 was held at Fred Ullery's grocery store — the frame fact stands in the…
The lumber yard — the corridor's oldest continuous trade
American Lumberman, 25 August 1928, read first-hand; Big C Lumber's own history pages; South Bend Regional Chamber, "Celebrating 100 Years"…
One Roseland firm can be followed from 1928 to the present counter, and it is the lumber yard. The town code's 1927 "lumber company" was the Roseland Lumber & Supply Company , a branch yard of the Niles Lumber Company of Niles…
The other two of 1927 — a grocery unnamed, garages unnamed
Town Code §11.01; directory and trade carriers as searched
The code's other two chief businesses of 1927 have no names in any record. The grocery and meat market that stood beside the lumber yard, and the garages — plural, in the code's own word — that made the automobile the corridor's…
The directory benches — what was read, and what was only located
Indiana State Library county directory list (index); Polk runs as stated
The honest state of the directory evidence is thin, and this article is its ledger. Read first-hand: the Polk Indiana Gazetteer of 1916–17 (no Roseland entry, printed above), and the 20 May 1955 issue of The Colonial , which…
The 1955 bench — the corridor in one school paper
The Colonial, Washington-Clay High School, 20 May 1955, read first-hand (advertising pages, OCR-interleaved in part)
The fullest single bench of Roseland businesses before the modern era is a high-school newspaper's advertising pages. The issue of 20 May 1955 carries, on the carriers read: Roseland Cleaners , dry cleaning at 417 North Dixie…
Today's food row — November 2026
South Bend Tribune items of May and July 2026; houses' own and listing carriers read November 2026
The corridor feeds travellers and the town in about equal measure, and its food row is the best-documented bench since 1955. At the north end: Weiss' Gasthaus , a German restaurant at 115 North, keeping short hours (Thursday to…
Fuel, retail and services today
Listing and regulatory carriers read November 2026; WIC vendor record, 8 October 2021
The rest of the present corridor is fuel, the lumber yard, and a small service bench. Fuel: a Phillips 66 trading as "Expo 66 Roseland" at 110 South, and a Marathon at 405 South whose operator a 2021 state vendor record names as…
Closures and vacancies — the corridor's open lots
Chain and brokerage carriers read November 2026 (Bradley Company flyers, ©2025 and ©2026)
Three corridor grounds stand empty or closed in November 2026, and each prints with its record. The Perkins restaurant at 423 South Dixie Way — a 1994 building on a parcel whose county taxing district is the town's own — is…
The employer test — no manufacturer, no payroll figures
Searched across the carriers named; real-estate record for 314 North Dixie Way (IRMLS)
Roseland has no proven manufacturer and no published employment figure, and the test is printed so the absence is not mistaken for an oversight. The town code records no industries at incorporation, and the 1949 zoning admitted…