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Town Code §11.01(B), the town's own record
The town's founding was a store vote. On 27 December 1915 the territory known as Roselawn petitioned the St. Joseph County Commissioners for incorporation, and an affidavit changing the name Roselawn to Roseland was filed with the County Recorder at the same time. "Voting on these issues took place in a grocery store owned by Fred Ullery. On January 25, 1916, Roselawn became incorporated and the name of the town was changed to Roseland." The town as incorporated held 348.7 acres and 165 people. It is the only founding scene the record gives — no hall, no named tellers, no count of the vote preserved in any carrier reached — and it prints at exactly that size: a winter vote, in a grocer's store on the Niles road corridor, that made a farm territory a town and changed its name in the same act.