South Bend Churches, Schools and Civic Institutions

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South Bend Churches, Schools and Civic Institutions

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Schools, Churches & Civic Life

§ 25South Bend Churches and Religion: The Faiths of the Bend, Congregation by CongregationReligion at the bend is older than the town. Missionaries worked the St. Joseph valley a century and a half before South Bend was platted, and Father Stephen Badin's Potawatomi mission of 1830 stood on the ground that…48 entry pages § 24South Bend Schools and Colleges: The Public Corporation, the Parochial System and the CollegesSouth Bend has been schooled on one downtown site since 1845, and it has run two school systems side by side for most of its life since: the public corporation organized in 1867, and the Catholic schools the Holy Cross…34 entry pages § 45South Bend HospitalsSouth Bend's hospital history is the history of two foundings, twelve years apart, on ground less than a mile apart. The first was Catholic: in 1882 the Sisters of the Holy Cross — the congregation whose motherhouse…16 entry pages § 46Medical Advancements From South Bend: What Its Medicine Discovered, Proved and Did FirstThis section is the advancement record of South Bend medicine — not the hospitals, which are profiled as institutions in the Hospitals record, and not the mental-health houses, which are the Mental Health record's, but…9 entry pages § 44Epidemics and Public Health in South BendSouth Bend's epidemic history is the history of a river town that became a factory city, and of the slow building of a public-health regime to stand against what the river, the crowding, and the century brought. It…14 entry pages § 47South Bend Mental Health InstitutionsSouth Bend never had a state hospital for the insane of the kind Indiana built at Indianapolis, Evansville, Richmond, and Logansport — and for the first century of the county's life it had no psychiatric institution of…12 entry pages § 43South Bend Fire and Public Safety: The Fire Department, the Police and the AmbulanceSouth Bend fought its first fires with buckets passed hand to hand from the nearest well, and for its first two decades it had no organization to fight them with at all. What it built, between 1853 and 1887, was first a…10 entry pages § 61South Bend LibrariesSouth Bend's public library is older than the city's park system and nearly as old as its public schools, and it was born in the schoolhouse door: a school board founded it, a school board bought its first ground, and…24 entry pages § 62South Bend Museums: From the Society of 1867 to the Dinosaur Museum of 2024South Bend has been collecting itself since 1867, and the shape of its museum map is the shape of its history. A historical society founded while the Civil War generation still governed the city kept its museum for most…19 entry pages § 31South Bend CharitiesSouth Bend has been organizing its generosity for as long as it has been a city, and the record runs in a clear succession of forms. First came public relief: the county commissioners renting rooms for the destitute in…30 entry pages § 32South Bend Foundations and NonprofitsEvery city of any size is run twice: once by its governments, and once by the web of private corporations that exist for public purposes — the associations that speak for its businesses, the foundations that pool its…14 entry pages § 30Major Donations: The Gifts That Built South Bend's InstitutionsSouth Bend's institutions run on other people's money, given on purpose — and the largest of that money did not come from South Bend. The university that stands in the unincorporated community of Notre Dame, immediately…13 entry pages § 89South Bend Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders: The Lodge City on the St. JosephFor a hundred years South Bend, like every American industrial city, ran a second civic government after dark. Its first secret society was chartered in 1842, when the town was eleven years old, and its lodges…20 entry pages § 88South Bend Private Clubs: The Membership CitySouth Bend has always kept a second civic architecture behind its public one: the lodge hall, the nest, the clubhouse, the members-only room across the street from the tavern. In 1907 the county's own historian counted…27 entry pages

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