Roseland, Indiana
Timeline
50 dated events, in order. Each gives the passage that dates it and a link to its full account.
19th century 14 dated mentions
1820s
- 1821The calls check — the one joint the text leaves open
The western limb is the joint: the 1821 polygon's western side in this longitude band is its first call, a segment "running thence south" from "a point on the south bank of the river St. Joseph of Lake Michigan, near the Parc aux Vaches, due north from Rum's Village" — and the treaty gives that point no longitude, bearing or monument.
- 1821The reserve test on this ground
The 1821 treaty's own Article 2 reserves five village tracts from the cession — Mang-ach-qua, Mick-ke-saw-be, Na-to-wa-se-pe, Prairie Ronde, and Match-e-be-nash-she-wish at the head of the Kalamazoo — and all five are Michigan tracts ; none touches Indiana.
1870s
- 1875James Stuckey and Oliver P. Stuckey
Curran S. Stuckey farms Section 30 in the 1875 directory.
- 1875Menzo Webster — the townsite section's first holder
He is the first holder of the townsite ground the record names, and he held it long: the 1875 atlas directory, forty-one years after his settling, still lists him on the section, a farmer, with a South Bend post office.
- 1875The townsite section — Menzo Webster's farm
The 1875 county atlas's settler footnote for Clay Township assigns the section, in its own words: " Menzo Webster on Section 23, in 1834 " — and the atlas's directory, forty-one years later, still lists him there: "Webster, Menzo — Section 23 — Farmer — Monroe Co., New York — 1834."
- 1875The farm township at the record's full length, 1875–1907
The 1875 directory's Clay Township roll is a farmers' roll with the university's faculty interleaved — Webster on Section 23, Cripe and McCombs on Section 26, Jacob Eaton on Section 13, Stover on Section 28, the Chirharts and Stuckeys on Section 30, Chalfant on Section 31, Mary Ann Siders as owner of the mill…
1880s
- 1880Daniel Kotz — an artist in Chicago, of Clay Township
John G. Kotz of Section 29 — born in Germany in 1822, come to Clay Township in 1847, a farmer of 160 acres — had ten children living in 1880, and Chapman lists their stations: "Jacob a wagon-maker and George a blacksmith, both South Bend; Daniel an artist in Chicago ."
- 1880John G. Kotz
Born in Germany in 1822, son of Jacob and Anna (App) Kotz; to America 11 August 1840, in Ohio five years, to this county in the spring of 1846 and Clay Township in 1847; 160 acres on Section 29; built a two-story frame house in 1879 for $1,500; of the Evangelical Church; ten children, all living in 1880…
- 1880The Cripes — settlers, and the township's first pastors
Peter's biography in Chapman is the fuller record: born in Ohio in 1824, son of John and Eva (Roof) Cripe, natives of Pennsylvania; "brought by his parents to this county in the fall of 1830, and they first located in German tp., where they died and are buried"…
- 1880The McCombses — 1829, and a name the town still elects
Their son William McCombs , born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1818, married Eva Cripe in 1839 — knitting the two first-settler families together in the settlement's first decade — raised nine children, all living in 1880, and held 247 acres at $60 the acre as "farmer and stock raiser" on Section 26.
- 1880The reminiscence papers — the settlement generation telling itself
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.
- 1880Chapman's township: a meeting-house and memberships, no society
The 1880 record is not a flat blank for the township's religion, and this section prints its nuance rather than a clean negative.
- 1880–1875George H. Stover
School trustee in 1880, a former schoolteacher who had attended college at Franklin, Indiana; Chapman: he "has held every other office in the tp."
- 1880–1875Jacob Eaton — "the oldest permanent living settler"
He married Elizabeth Barnes in 1846; seven children, six living in 1880. He was township trustee for seventeen years.
20th century 26 dated mentions
1900s
- 1902–1906The St. Joseph Line Opens: 1903 to Niles, 1906 Through
The company was consolidated on 15 September 1902, successor through consolidation to a Michigan company of the same name and to the South Bend and Northern Railway, both then under construction, with capital of $750,000.
- 1902–2012The Notre Dame & Western: a College Coal Spur That Crossed the Highway
The Notre Dame & Western ran from 1902 into the 1990s: a spur off the New York Central's Niles Branch — the Michigan Central line of the article above in its later ownership — that curved east, crossing U.S. 31 and paralleling Douglas Road.
- 1905–1929Before Any Counter: Mail, Notaries, and the State's First Records
Indiana required vehicle registration from March 1905 — a one-dollar fee, a two-inch brass or aluminium dashboard seal, and a rear placard the owner made himself; in 1913 the state issued its first license plate.
- 1907The leg's verdict, stated first
No congregation has ever been proven to stand inside the Town of Roseland — not in 1907, when the county history read the township whole; not in the present-day directory sweeps; and not in any era between that the record reached.
- 1907Howard, read whole: the township's one church, and a correction
The correct state of the 1907 record is therefore one township church — the German Baptist church, standing since 1868 — plus the institutions at Notre Dame and Saint Mary's.
1910s
- 1914–1926The Dixie Highway: the Western Division Runs Through Roseland
The Dixie Highway Association was organized at Chattanooga in early December 1914; the governors of the interested states met there on 3 April 1915, and on 22 May 1915 the commission chose a split route so more communities could be served.
- 1916–1917The town test — no bank was ever seated in Roseland
The 1916–17 gazetteer carries no Roseland town entry at all — no bank, and nothing else (the neighbouring Walkerton entry, with two banks, shows the carrier did reach towns of this size).
- 1916–1917The first census — silence in the directory, garages in the code
On one side: the 1916–17 gazetteer gives the town no entry at all — zero garages or dealers listed, none named — and the 1921 Polk South Bend directory's street guide, read directly, runs its Michigan Street only as far north as the South Bend city-limit area…
- 1916–1917One ambiguous line — the "Carr O L" livery item
It prints because the livery trade is the auto trade's predecessor — a liveryman of 1916 is where a garage of 1927 comes from — and because an unresolved item printed is worth more than a plausible one promoted.
- 1917–1919Main Market 1, Then State Road 1
The state took the road in 1917 and numbered it first among its highways. The line became Main Market Highway 1 in 1917 — the act was signed into law by the Governor on 7 March 1917, and the signs were installed on 1 June of that year.
- 1919Homecomings: tested negative
The searches were run for both homecoming generations — 1919, when the town was three years incorporated and had no village past behind it, and 1945–46 — and returned other places' celebrations only: Indianapolis's Welcome Home Day, Evansville's, Kendallville's.
1920s
- 1920The Steam Road Howard Named: the Michigan Central's South Bend Branch
The Michigan Central's List of Officers, Agents and Stations No. 110, issued 15 October 1920, prints the whole of its South Bend Branch, Niles to South Bend, in four stations: 0.0 Niles, Michigan; 4.8 Bertrand, Michigan, no agent, prepaid; 9.5 Notre Dame, Indiana, no agent, prepaid; 11.6 South Bend, Indiana.
- 1926U.S. 31: Designated October 1, 1926
On 1 October 1926 the road through Roseland became a United States highway. The designation was applied in Indiana along the existing State Road 1: "On October 1, 1926, US 31 was designated along what was SR 1 at the time."
- 1928The lumber yard — the corridor's oldest continuous trade
One Roseland firm can be followed from 1928 to the present counter, and it is the lumber yard. The town code's 1927 "lumber company" was the Roseland Lumber & Supply Company , a branch yard of the Niles Lumber Company of Niles, Michigan.
1930s
- 1930–1940One Company at Last, Receivership, and the End in 1934
The two South Bend interurban families became one corporation on 8 February 1930 — and the combined property was in receivership again within two years.
- 1930–1976Clay High School, whole: the Colonials
Clay High School was Roseland's high school for two generations, and its record opens with a conflict this build prints whole (C18): the school was established in 1930 on the contemporaneous evidence…
- 1934–1968The Bus Succession: 1934 to Transpo, on This Corridor
When the interurban lines were abandoned in 1934, the railway replaced them with buses at once: the Northern Indiana Railway's own interurban bus service ran from South Bend to Elkhart and Goshen and to Niles, and Greyhound ran a through bus from South Bend to St. Joseph and Benton Harbor and between South Bend and La Porte.
1950s
- 1955The 1955 page's unassigned fragments
Three fragments of the 1955 bench cannot be assigned to any house, and they print unassigned. A name, "Leo Frank," stands in the interleaved columns without a firm.
- 19551950–1989 — the bench generation and the lumber succession
The 1955 bench gives the band its names, at advertisement strength. Karl Weis kept a garage on the corridor in 1955 — one of the two firms in the interleaved 401 North advertisement, the pharmacy being the other, with the address assignment unresolved (C40).
- 1956–todayThe Toll Road's Edge: Exit 77, the Town's Exit
The Toll Road opened in 1956 with sequential exit numbering and converted to the mileage scheme in 1981; the official exit list places the Roseland interchange at Toll Road mile 76.46 and gives its course as old Exit 8, new Exit 77, "SR 933 – South Bend — Serves University of Notre Dame."
1960s
- 1963First houses — none before 1963
No hotel, inn or tavern-stand in Roseland is found in any record from the town's incorporation to 1963.
- 1967The Lily Road campus: the township's high school ground
Before Darden Road , Clay's secondary schooling stood on Lily Road: a 1967 commencement program places its exercises in the "Clay Junior High School Gymnasium, 52900 Lily Road "…
1980s
- 1982–todayBusiness U.S. 31: Created 1982, Still on the Road
A Business U.S. 31 was created in 1982, running along Main and Michigan Streets — the former U.S. 31 — and Cleveland Road; it is still extant in November 2026, no decommissioning date appearing in any carrier searched.
- 1988–2026The Modern Course: Two Consolidation Waves and the Kiosk Test
The longer frame is an IBJ editorial of 7 October 2022: the branches were culled "from 189 in 1988 to 124 today," and a statute requires at least one license branch in each of Indiana's 92 counties.
- 1989Where the telling is filed — the code, and the scrapbooks in Town Hall
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.
1990s
- 1997–1998State Road 933: Coined April 1998, and Why
On 25 April 1997 AASHTO approved truncating U.S. 33 to U.S. 20 in Elkhart, on a joint request of the Michigan and Indiana departments of transportation; signage was changed a year later, in April 1998 (the operative truncation date in the road record is 5 April 1998).
21st century 10 dated mentions
2000s
- 2000The 2000 census's 1,809 — the count that was corrected away
The tabulated claim is 1,809 people in 2000 — a 156 percent jump over 706 in 1990, printed in the reference record's own historical table — against the same record's census text: "there were 645 people (corrected count), 311 households, and 171 families residing in the town."
- 2004The Reference Post Book Read: Roseland Is Mile 13.29
The 2004 book's SR 23 log corroborates the downtown contact in its own lines — "SR 933 SB TO SR 23 (SAMPLE ST)," "SR 933 NB & MICHIGAN ST RT," and a Conrail bridge over "SR 23/933 & RUSH ST."
- 2007Teddy Penn, Michael Lipsky, Dawn Jones, Heather Velez, Peter Agostino
The reached line's second rank: Penn, council vice-president in 2007; Lipsky, town attorney the same year; Jones, deputy clerk-treasurer in 2024; Velez, police clerk in 2024; Agostino, town attorney in the 2024 record.
2010s
- 2012The fines course: one allegation, at its exact strength
It prints, therefore, exactly as the record carries it: an allegation made in a formal complaint in March 2012, unadjudicated in every record reached.
- 2017–2018Edison: intermediate center, middle school, K–8 magnet
Under Plan Z it was Edison Intermediate Center , grades 5–8 — still so styled in the corporation's 2017–18 directory (older directories call it Edison Junior High).
2020s
- 2020The frame
The 2020 Census gazetteer gives the town 0.385 square miles of land and no water area and an internal point at 41.717607° N, −86.250592° W — about 2.8 miles south of the Indiana–Michigan line, in Section 23, Township 38 North, Range 2 East of the Second Principal Meridian (the survey derivation is carried whole in the land fragment).
- 2020–2024The veteran population, under its own instrument
One instrument seam rides in the same profile and prints whole (C61): it renders the town's total population as 1,175 , where the 2020 decennial census — the figure this build's frame carries — counted 854 .
- 2022–2012The crop order — corn first, and the greenhouse weight
In 2022, corn for grain ran on 213 farms across 71,437 acres, returning 12,273,499 bushels; wheat ran on 33 farms, 2,510 acres, 171,012 bushels — the atlas's "abundant crop" persisting at county scale as a minor line.
- 2023–2026The building's afterlife: the $1 law, two courts, and an appeal
Clay's course through it, step by step: the district discussed listing Clay and Warren with the state in April 2023; Career Academy Network expressed interest; the Department of Education ruled the building must be made available, and the district appealed…
- 2026The tax course — the certified figures
The town unit's certified course is read from the Department of Local Government Finance's 2026 budget order, the strongest carrier the tax record has.