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1931 — present
The northwest's youngest neighborhood was cornfields with a pump house: in 1931 the city built a pumping station for Coquillard Woods — a round brick building in the Italian style with a green tile roof, "the round house" of later neighborhood memory — in open cornfields decades before the houses around it, the newspaper account of its approval preserved in the local record ("New Pump House Plans Approved"). The ground filled after the war: Edison Park stands in the government file's list of the postwar subdivisions built inside the limits, and a Coquillard Woods Subdivision survives in the modern map at 630 Northwood Drive, the founder's surname carried into the suburb as a street-address name. The neighborhood's association is the Far Northwest Neighborhood Association, in the city's roster; the origin of the name "Edison Park" is not documented in the record reached, and none is supplied.
Sources:
- Local-history record of the Coquillard Woods pumping station (1931) and the Edison Park neighborhood
- Government, this record (Edison Park among the postwar subdivisions) — banked fragment; City of South Bend, neighborhood organization roster (2026) — southbendin.gov