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South Bend, Indiana

A–Z index

1,914 pages: every person, place, firm, event and section in the record.

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A

A. C. Staley and the Stephenson brothers — wool first, then underwear Founders & CEOs
The abolitionist presence · nine men, three election tickets, and a hostile town Underground Railroad
The Academy Awards: Sydney Pollack, raised here National Honors
Accidents: the NTSB record Airports
The accounting · the Reparatory Justice Commission and the present record Black History
Accreditation: Held Continuously Since 1987 Zoo
Across the City Line: Eastern Churches in Mishawaka (Boundary) Churches & Religion
Across the Line: Marian and Bethel, Mishawaka's Schools Schools & Colleges
Across the Line: The County Parks Parks & City Planning
Across the line: University Park Mall Malls & Shopping
Across the line: West End Bakery, Mishawaka's Belgian house — a boundary entry Food & Restaurants
Adams High School Schools & Colleges
The Administration Building: stabilized, empty, and unconverted Architecture
After the wagon works: the plants' second lives Automobiles
The Aggregator Tail — Names Without Carriers Ghost Stories
Agnes Szabo and the Resale of Seized Liquor Crime History
The Ahmadiyya Missionary's Visit, 1922 Churches & Religion
AIDS Ministries / AIDS Assist of Northern Indiana Charities
Air shows: from Simon's exhibition to Skyfest Michiana Airports
Airmail: the transcontinental airway over the bend Airports
The Airman the War Never Gave Back: Hugh Maynard Burch Historical Mysteries
The airport's record year South Bend Today
Airports Section
Albert Russel Erskine — the chief executive the Depression killed Founders & CEOs
Albert Russel Erskine: The President the Receivership Killed Great Fortunes
Alexander Toradze and the Toradze Piano Studio Music
Alexis Coquillard — the trader the town grew on Founders & CEOs
Alexis Coquillard: The Fortune That Ended in a Debt Workout Great Fortunes
Alexis Coquillard: the last of the traders Before the City
Alice Mannering: the first woman to run for mayor in Indiana Famous People
Alice Mannering: three and a half months a candidate for mayor Women's History
Also of record: the pointers Comedy
AM General — a headquarters with a Studebaker root Businesses
AM General — the headquarters Technology
AM General as an automobile maker: the Hummer line, built across the line Automobiles
The Amazon campus — the county's, boundary-printed Technology
The ambulance: from the police wagon to the EMS Division Fire & Public Safety
Amelia Earhart, 1936: the famous landing the record supports Airports
The American Legion: four posts in one city Veterans
The American Trust Company — the line that runs to PNC Banks
Amtrak at South Bend Railroads
Amy Coney Barrett — the justice formed here Famous People
The Ancestor: The Portage Path Trails
Anderson & Cooley, South Bend and the Men Who Have Made It (1901) Sources
The animal lodges in their civic form: Elks, Eagles, Moose Lodges & Fraternal Orders
The annexation course: how the plats became one city Neighborhoods
The anniversaries as heritage acts Historic Preservation
The answer in steel · the South Bend "Dillinger Car" Bank Robberies
The antebellum Black community · counted in the census, named in the record Underground Railroad
Anthony Barr: Born Here, a Four-Time Pro Bowler Sports Players
Anthony Johnson: Formed at Adams, the Panthers' First Thousand-Yard Rusher Sports Players
The appellate line of 1998–99 · Lee, Warner and Alkhalidi Notable Murder Cases
The appellate record, the Bureau, and the prosecutors' releases Sources
The appointed machinery: boards, works, and the mayor's staff Public Servants
The approach of war · a pointer Underground Railroad
April Pulley Sayre — the resident nature writer Authors & Books
Arcades and lanes: the county frame Kids & Family Entertainment
The Architects and the Builder Architecture
Architecture Section
The Archive and the Schoolyard: Where the County's Telling Was Filed Folklore
The archive-keeping: pageants, voices and survey cards Historic Preservation
Armistice Day, 1918: "great hilarity" Events Calendar
The armory line, I · 727 South Eddy Street, 1928 Military
The armory line, II · the settlement of 1963 and the Kemble Avenue ground Military
The armory line, III · 2402 East Rose Street, and its return to service Military
The arrival: no first tractor, and a first count of 287 Tractors
The arrivals: zebra mussels in the river, carp at the gate Wildlife
The arsenal years The Story of South Bend
Art Beat: the festival as an institution Arts
The art museum's lease: a thirty-six-month clock, running Museums
Artists Section
Arts Section
The arts as corporations: the Symphony association, the Civic Theatre, the Fischoff Foundations & Nonprofits
Ashley Flowers: born in South Bend, built in Indianapolis Influencers & Digital Creators
Assembly packet — the Erskine export figure, kept unresolved Studebaker
The Associates — the finance company South Bend founded Businesses
The Associates' departure — an interval, printed unreconciled Businesses
The association and the advocates: organized families and citizens Mental Health Institutions
At the boundary: the Sisters of the Holy Cross and their own archive Photographers
The atlas trade: subscription books, 1875 to the GIS age Historic Maps
Attendance: The Zoo's Own Count Zoo
Audiochuck: the company the South Bend pair built Influencers & Digital Creators
The Auditorium Theatre Theaters
August Luckhaus: cabinet cards, and a trade that traveled Photographers
Aunalytics: the professor's data company Dot-Com Era
Auten Post No. 8 · the post that never disbanded Wars, Unrest & Disasters
Authors & Books Section
The auto rows: how the trade moved across the map Dealerships
The automatic washing machine — Bendix Home Appliances Technology
Automobiles Section
The auxiliary line · Civil Air Patrol and the Sea Cadet question Military
The Avanti's afterlife: Newman & Altman and the Avanti II Studebaker
The Avanti's body supplier, settled Automobiles

B

Badin's mission and the band that stayed The Story of South Bend
The Bahá'í Community of South Bend Churches & Religion
The bald eagle's return: the county's first nests, 2015 Wildlife
Ball before the minors — the Green Stockings, 1878–1888 Sports
The Ballpark No Map Keeps: Bendix Field Historical Mysteries
The Bank of South Bend — the free bank Banks
The Bank of the State of Indiana — the successor branch Banks
The Bank Outlots: the first addition was a failed canal's salvage Neighborhoods
Bank Robberies Section
The banking record: OCC, Pollock, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Sources
Banks Section
Bantam before Torrington — the bearings works' front end Businesses
The Baptists: First Baptist Church and the Later Congregations Churches & Religion
Barns, shops and power Public Transit
Bars & Nightclubs Section
Basney: three generations behind a bracket Dealerships
The beaver: the trade's first casualty, the park's engineer Wildlife
Before hospitals: the sick at home, and the county's poor Hospitals
Before the branch: plates by mail, and the notary's desk License Branch
Before the City Section
Before the regime: sickness met at home Epidemics & Public Health
Before the saucers: the airship wave of 1896–97 reaches South Bend UFO Sightings
Before the web: the bulletin boards Dot-Com Era
The behavioral-health consolidation, on its eve South Bend Today
The Belgians belong to the county's other city Communities
The bend and the portage The Story of South Bend
The bend itself The St. Joseph River
Bendix — the starter drive, the brakes, and what remains Businesses
The Bendix Brakes on the court, 1928–1933 Sports
The Bendix drive: a Chicago patent that built a South Bend empire Inventors & Inventions
Bendix Field — fame without a findable ground Famous Landmarks
Bendix Field — the placement hardened to the far west side; the lot still unlocated Historical Mysteries
The Bendix Field ballpark question Airports
Bendix Field: the purchase of 1929 and the opening of 1933 Airports
Bendix in the world: licenses, brakes and wings Exports
"Bendix invented the electric starter" Famous Stories & the Record
"Bendix made 75 percent of America's wartime avionics" Famous Stories & the Record
The Bendix name in other cities — radios, instruments, computers Technology
The Bendix sit-down · nine days, or six, that started an era Major Events
The Bendix Theatre at Century Center Theaters
Bendix Woods County Park Trails
The Bendix works at war — the South Bend production record Technology
The Benevolent-Society Era and the Associated Charities Charities
Better Homes of South Bend · twenty-two couples buy a street in secret Black History
Beverly Crone and the county's other firsts Public Servants
Beyond Our Control: the city's sketch-comedy broadcast Comedy
The Bicycle's Own Civic History Trails
The bid: Starks, Krause, Kernan, and a hundred people Halls of Fame
Big Brothers Big Sisters: the Agency That Closed in 2025 Charities
Big Cat Tracks: The Master Plan's Final Phase Zoo
The Big Four at Granger: the county's other New York Central line Railroads
The big rooms of the 1980s: Mitchell's Indiana Club and Pardner's Bars & Nightclubs
Bill Dobslaw and the Riviera label: the record side, at its true size Film & TV Producers
Bingo, raffles, and the license Lottery & Crypto
The bird's-eye: Ruger's South Bend, 1866 Historic Maps
The Birdsell Mansion — A Haunting Built in the Tour Era Ghost Stories
Birdsell Manufacturing Company — the clover huller Businesses
The Birdsell–Liston district · a whole commercial city, walking distance wide Black History
The bison question, tested on the record Wildlife
Bissell and Economist — the two Farr works, attested, their fates still open Businesses
Black doctors and nurses · practice inside segregated hospitals Black History
The Black Hawk War · minute men, a stockade, and the "bloody three hundred" Wars, Unrest & Disasters
Black History Section
The Black population series, 1850–2020 Population
The Black press of South Bend · The Reformer, and the papers that were not this city's Black History
The Black press: the Forum, the Journal, the Herald-Times, and The Reformer Newspapers & Media
Black South Bend's ground: the west-side geography Communities
Black South Bend's leaders: the lawyers, the nurse, and the council presidents Notable People
Black women's organizing: the Ruffin name, Hering House, and the clubs Women's History
The Blackstone — The State Theatre Theaters
The Blackstone-State Theater (1919–21) and Its Second Life Architecture
Blake Wesley: Riley High School to the First Round Sports Players
The Blizzard of 1978 · the winter that still measures all the others Wars, Unrest & Disasters
The Blizzard of January 1978 · the city shovelled itself out Major Events
The Blue Book ledger for St. Joseph County UFO Sightings
The Blue Sox and Factors: Open Items Sports
The Blue Sox stars, at one line each Sports
The boat that graded a street by being dragged down it Strange but True
Bodies for other men's electrics, then an electric of its own Studebaker
The Boer War trial: Lord Roberts's report Exports
The Bond-Built System: The Parks Since 1945 Parks & City Planning
Bonnie Baker: The Face of the League Sports Players
Bonnie Baker: The Face of the League South Bend Blue Sox
The bookmobile Libraries
The bookmobile the carmaker built Strange but True
The boomtown mayors: Colfax's son and the eight-year man Government
Booster cartography: the map as advertisement Historic Maps
Born here, famous elsewhere: the screen Notable People
The Born-Here Register: Fourteen Names Sports Players
Boundaries — the works that are Mishawaka's Businesses
The boundary at Atlanta: where the College Hall lives now Halls of Fame
The boundary at Richmond: the Indiana Football Hall of Fame Halls of Fame
The boundary that would not move: annexation and the counted effect Population
The boundary: after 1929, an Oliver tractor is an Iowa tractor Tractors
Bowling — the test, and what the record actually holds Sports
Boxing — the Palais and the women pioneers Sports
The Boy Scout Councils: St. Joseph Valley to LaSalle Charities
The Boys & Girls Clubs: fifty years, by the club's own count Kids & Family Entertainment
The brake maker and the cabinet maker: Bendix and Pine Notable People
The brakes: Perrot's French patents, Adiel Dodge's duo-servo, and the NoRoL hill holder Inventors & Inventions
Brandon Reed: the animator the platforms found at home Influencers & Digital Creators
The Breezers Club Private Clubs
The breweries, as businesses — a cross-reference Businesses
The Bridges jackpot Lottery & Crypto
Brit Prawat: the South Bend end of the line Influencers & Digital Creators
Broadmoor Shopping Plaza: the first plaza Malls & Shopping
Brown's Story of South Bend (1920) Sources
The bucket town and the volunteer companies Fire & Public Safety
The Buffalo Run Trails
Building the Cove, 1984–1988 Sports
Building the road: commissioners, scrip and the South Bend land sale Main Roads & Corridors
The building's afterlife: the hotel that rose beside it Halls of Fame
The building: 111 South St. Joseph Street Halls of Fame
Bulla Bros.: the brothers on Michigan Street Photographers
The burial ground Veterans
Burlesque at the Blackstone: the season and the shutdown Comedy
Businesses Section
Businesses: Firms Not Found in the Record Businesses