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The claims: the name-lore of Roseland, Chicago; Roseland, Nebraska; Roselawn, Newton/Jasper Counties, Indiana. The test: the carriers' own places
Every "Roseland" collects a roses story, and each belongs to its own place. The Chicago neighbourhood's Roseland is told of wild roses and a colonel's naming; the Nebraska village platted in 1887 carries a wild-roses story of its own; and Indiana's other Roselawn — the census-designated place in Newton and Jasper counties, a different community from this town's predecessor territory — carries a naming story of an Orlando Rose and a Lon Craig. None of these is evidence about Roseland, St. For this town the record holds only the mechanics — a territory named Roselawn, an affidavit of 27 December 1915 changing the name to Roseland — and no origin for either name in any Indiana carrier reached. Verdict: the roses stories are travelling tales that attach to the name wherever it lands; they are printed here, attributed to their own places, precisely so they stop travelling into this one.