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Polk Indiana Gazetteer 1916–17; Polk South Bend City Directory 1921, street guide read first-hand; Town Code §11.01
The auto trade's first census of Roseland is a tension, and both sides print. On one side: the 1916–17 gazetteer gives the town no entry at all — zero garages or dealers listed, none named — and the 1921 Polk South Bend directory's street guide, read directly, runs its Michigan Street only as far north as the South Bend city-limit area; it does not extend into Roseland and contains no Dixie Way section, so the auto row it does print (the Overland company's house, the motor-truck corporation, the garages of Michigan Street) is South Bend's, at boundary. On the other side: the town's own code records that by 1927 "garages," plural and unnamed, stood among Roseland's chief businesses. Both are carried whole: the directory silence is a fact about the directories, the code's garages a fact about the town, and the named houses that would reconcile them are the business-gaps file's standing gap, with the gazetteer's classified headings and the press archive as settlers. What the tension establishes is the trade's shape in the town from the start — real, plural, and beneath the directory canvass's notice.