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Town Code §11.01(B)–(C)
The town's own historyAt 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 town created the office of town marshal "to curtail the traffic problem on U.S. Highway 31, which had become a main thoroughfare between Indiana and Michigan" — and the code records the consequence in its own words: "After that time, Roseland came to be considered a speed trap by motorists." In 1949 — thirty-three years after incorporation — the town passed its first ordinances: a zoning ordinance adopted 1 May 1949 "zoning all of the town of Roseland commercial or light industrial, or residential," with firearms-discharge and dog-licensing ordinances the same day. The code notes the zoning brought "a large number of business establishments" incompatible with the residences already there.
The corridor was served by rail-era transit at the township scale before it was a highway town: Howard's 1907 township chapter names the Michigan Central railroad and the "Southern Michigan railway (interurban)" running through Clay Township south to north, and the interurban's corporate course — South Bend to Niles from 1903, through to St. Joseph, Michigan, in 1906, consolidated into the Northern Indiana Railway in 1907, abandoned as an interurban in 1934 — is dug whole in the movement pass; no carrier reached names a Roseland stop, and none is printed.