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The frame
2020 Census gazetteer row (the named frame); Town Code §11.01
Roseland is an incorporated town in Clay Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana. In the federal frame it is GNIS feature 2396890 , FIPS place code 18-65988 (GEOID 1865988), legal/statistical area description 43 (town), functional…
The township frame — Clay Township
Chapman (1880), the township chapters; Howard (1907), Chapter VIII
Clay Township was formed 5 May 1840 , in Howard's words, when "the commissioners divided the original Portage township into Center and Union townships, and at the same time established German, Clay and Warren townships." Its…
Roselawn before 1916, and the incorporation
Before 1916 the place was not Roseland. The town's own code states it plainly: "Prior to the incorporation of Roseland as a town, the area now known as Roseland was a territory known as Roselawn ." On 27 December 1915 a petition…
The early town course
Town Code §11.01(B)–(C)
The town's own history At incorporation "there were no industries in the area"; in 1927 the chief businesses were a lumber company, a grocery and meat market, and automobile garages. City mail delivery began in 1927. In 1938 the…
The corridor — Dixie Way
Roseland is a corridor town , and its spine is the road. The road through it is the Dixie Highway line, Indiana's north–south Dixie route from the Michigan line through South Bend — carried in the state system as State Road 1…
The census line
Decennial census returns as reached; instruments labelled
The decennial series , with each return's instrument stated and nothing merged: 1930, 777 ; 1940, 782 ; 1950, 984 ; 1960, 971 ; 1970, 895 ; 1980, 832 ; 1990, 706 — a town that peaked at mid-century and shrank slowly for forty…
The modern town, and its sources
The town's own landmarks of its modern course are two. In 1974 ground was broken for the Roseland Community Center Building — the present town hall at 200 Independence Drive — on land donated by William Randall , built to house…