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Folklore — Roseland, Indiana
The speed trap — the tale the town tells on itself
Town Code §11.01(D); the telling's keepers
Most towns acquire their reputations from travellers; Roseland wrote its own into its code. The sentence stands in §11.01(D) of the town's codified history, between the marshal's creation in 1938 and the first ordinances of 1949…
The Old Gray Mill — a place kept by an elegy
Richard H. Lyon, "the Passing of the Old Gray Mill," South Bend Weekly Tribune, 6 July 1901; reprinted in Howard (1907) I, pp. 285–288
The mill on the townsite section survives because a man wrote its obituary. By 1901 the flouring mill Jonas Harris built in 1836–'37 was a ruin — undermined by a muskrat, its foundations washed out, "lying upon its side a…
The reminiscence papers — the settlement generation telling itself
Chapman (1880), Chapter X — papers of Dr. Jacob Hardman (pp. 512–514) and Thomas P. Bulla (pp. 514–517)
The township's old-settler stock was collected once, in print, in 1880. Chapman's tenth chapter gathers the county's reminiscence papers, and two of them are Clay Township's. Dr. Jacob Hardman's tells the building of the first…
Roselawn into Roseland — the anti-legend
Town Code §11.01(B); the claims record for the other places' tales
The town's name has no legend, and that is its distinction. Where other Roselands keep roses — wild roses on a prairie, a colonel's compliment, a founder's partner named Rose — this town's name-change is a courthouse act: "an…
Where the telling is filed — the code, and the scrapbooks in Town Hall
Town Code §11.01 (1989 Code, p. iv); South Bend Tribune, 2008, at index strength
A town this size keeps its memory in two places. The first is official: the town code's own history chapter, §11.01 — a codified local history carried through the town's code since the 1989 codification (its population line still…