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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 reads the 2010 count, a dating marker the frame pass noted), from which this build's founding record, early course, flag and speed-trap sentence all come. It is an unusual survival: most towns Roseland's size have no written history at all; this one enacted its own. The second keeper is personal. The Tribune in 2008 described Ella Riffel — former clerk-treasurer, co-designer of the town flag — as a woman who "has kept scrapbooks of articles going back 40 years of everything she has seen about Roseland, and she's still clipping. Many of the scrapbooks are in a secure location in Town Hall, she said." Forty years of clippings, kept by the town's own officer, stored in the town's own hall: that is the archive of record for the town's later twentieth century, and it stands in this build as a named settler (G-SP-5) for every question the published record cannot answer — beginning with the founders this history could not name.