St. Joseph County, Indiana: History

St. Joseph County through time

1. 1679La Salle's passage: December 1679 South Bend
2. 1679The Mission Era: Priests and Missionaries on the River, 1679–1857 Mishawaka
3. 1679The first passage, and the French century upriver Granger
4. 1679–1837The mission era whole: from the river missions to the first resident congregation Osceola
5. 1720The machinery, honestly: the foreign-trade zone, corrected whole North Liberty
6. 1721Ox-Head Prairie, named for a head of monstrous size South Bend
7. 1763The battles of the valley, each its own beat — and none of them here Mishawaka
8. 1775–1869Soldiers before the townships: the Revolution's and 1812's men who came later Granger
9. 1779–1820The traders before the bend had a post: Burnett's valley South Bend
10. 1787–1850First families of record: the Black Laws, the county's first settlement, and the Powell freedom case Osceola
11. 1801–1895The militia years: the county's standing companies, named from organization forward Granger
12. 1803–1839Elijah Lineback — the first family, in two tellings Lakeville
13. 1810–1882John D. DeFrees: the printer who started the city's press — and Colfax South Bend
14. 1810–1872Norman Eddy: the physician who carried the town to Washington Mishawaka
15. 1811–1876John A. Henricks: the founder whose biography never mentions the town Osceola
16. 1814–1874Richard Carlisle, the founder — and Professor Risley New Carlisle
17. 1819–1896Luigi Gregori: the Vatican painter who founded the department Notre Dame
18. 1821–1833The nations, tested one by one against this ground North Liberty
19. 1821The calls check — the one joint the text leaves open Indian Village
20. 1821The calls check — the one joint the text leaves open Roseland
21. 1830–1880First courts, first sheriff, first jail: the county's law, and the township's own officers Walkerton
22. 1850The Black population series, 1850–2020 South Bend
23. 1850The population spine Mishawaka
24. 1850–1860The antebellum Black community, counted and named: twenty-nine in the county, none on this ground — and that is a count, not a silence Granger
25. 1850–2020The census series, 1850–2020 Osceola
26. 1850–2018Drainage — the Transformation, Its Instruments, and One Named Ditch Lakeville
27. 1851–1884The first store — C. W. N. Stephens, West York and Walkerton, 1851–1884 Walkerton
28. 1851The railroad of 1851 New Carlisle
29. 1851–todayThe Methodist Church, 1851 — North Liberty United Methodist Church Today North Liberty
30. 1854Edwin Douglass Eaton — born in the township, 1854 Indian Village
31. 1854–1855The Cholera Year and the Drained Lakes Notre Dame
32. 1875James Stuckey and Oliver P. Stuckey Roseland
33. 1900–1938The Citizens' Trust and Savings Bank — the Citizens' National's companion South Bend
34. 1900The composition: the immigrant counts as the record gives them Mishawaka
35. 1900–1945The long rural hold Granger
36. 1900–todayThe country clubs individually, and the public courses stated plainly as public Osceola
37. 1900The town's own fair: the Walkerton exposition of 1900 Walkerton
38. 1900–1963The First National Bank of New Carlisle, 1900–1963 New Carlisle
39. 1900Three hundred and fifty people in 1900 Lakeville
40. 1901–1964The timetable pattern: the town on two station lists North Liberty
41. 1902–1906The St. Joseph Line Opens: 1903 to Niles, 1906 Through Roseland
42. 1903–2026The Buildings' Courses: Stone, Fire Risk and Second Lives Notre Dame
43. 1907The ground — glacial course and soils Indian Village
44. 1920–1929Consolidation at South Bend: the works in the 1920s South Bend
45. 1920West End State Bank to Valley American — the Wiekamp succession Mishawaka
46. 1920–1933Prohibition's places: no room named — the dry answer predates the law by a generation New Carlisle
47. 1920–todayThe Branch Roll: Nine Branches, and Where North Liberty Stands in the Building Line North Liberty
48. 1920The Steam Road Howard Named: the Michigan Central's South Bend Branch Roseland
49. 1920George Gipp and his death, 1920 Notre Dame
50. 1921–todayBig C Lumber: a county firm that put its headquarters on this ground Granger
51. 1921The custom trades: names from the 1921 directory; the count itself a named gap Osceola
52. 1922–2016Broadcast at its streets: WBAQ, WGAZ, and the WSBT moves Lakeville
53. 1929–2023Harold Rubert "Hal" Muncie: the superintendent who built the modern corporation Walkerton
54. 1940–1968The private bus era: 1940–1968 South Bend
55. 1940–2020Donald Heirman: standardization is not invention, printed exactly Mishawaka
56. 1940–2026The service clubs as clubs, dated: a Lions club, a Kiwanis club, and the Rotary's missing charter Granger
57. 1940–2009The bus era whole: the private successor, the public corporation, and Osceola's seventy-five-year blank Osceola
58. 1940–1970The first-plaza question, 1940–1970 Walkerton
59. 19401940: shoes, clothing and beauty on one street North Liberty
60. 1941–1945The Second World War: the County Figure Not Settled, and Why Lakeville
61. 1941–todayNotre Dame Federal Credit Union — Room 329 of the Main Building Notre Dame
62. 1946–2026The Legion: Post 297, named for James W. Swanson New Carlisle
63. 1955The 1955 page's unassigned fragments Roseland
64. 1960–todayThe controller's desk: the city's purse South Bend
65. 1960Decline and remaking: the slide, the closings, the replacement anchors, the riverfront Mishawaka
66. 1960The Soap Box Derby at its peak: a national champion in 1960 — South Bend's boy, at a South Bend address; the Granger negative printed Granger
67. 1960The Soap Box Derby, with its peak named: Fredric Lake of South Bend, national champion, 1960 Osceola
68. 1960–2014Investigators and organizations: the local record the record supports Walkerton
69. 1960The laundry: the Modern Speed Wash, 103 W. Center, 1960 – and its ground's whole sequence North Liberty
70. 1962–todayTwo Townships, One Corporation — Union-North United, 1962 Lakeville
71. 1963–2026Today's office — 1st Source Bank, and the succession that is not yet proven New Carlisle
72. 1963First houses — none before 1963 Roseland
73. 1963–1987The Hesburgh Library and the Word of Life mural Notre Dame
74. 1980–todayThe Consent Decree: the Corporation's Institutional Course South Bend
75. 1980–1998Volleyball — the Steve Anderson dynasty: seven finals, three titles Mishawaka
76. 1980–2026Dynasty numbers as conventions: Penn's twenty-four, counted under a stated rule — and the resident coach's two Granger
77. 1980–2026Wrestling: one state champion, and the program's firsts New Carlisle
78. 1980–1987Mary DiStanislao and the Division I step, 1980–1987 Notre Dame
79. 1981North Liberty High School: The Shamrocks, and a Closing Nobody Dated North Liberty
80. 1982The council: five seats, four wards and the town at large Walkerton
81. 1982–2022The County in Numbers — the Verified Series Lakeville
82. 1982–todayBusiness U.S. 31: Created 1982, Still on the Road Roseland
83. 1984–2026The Osceola Music Festival: the town's one standing institution Osceola
84. 19901990–2026: the official course — census, county, fire territory, FEMA Indian Village
85. 2000Households and income, in dated snapshots South Bend
86. 2000The merger of the two St. Josephs, 2000 Mishawaka
87. 2000–2026The dance schools of the corridor Granger
88. 2000–2003The Pleasureland case, 2000–2003: the inheritance, whole Osceola
89. 2000The peak, the plateau, and the boundary warning Walkerton
90. 2000–2026The clerk's line carried down — and the courts test New Carlisle
91. 2000–2002The pipeline at boundary size; the bust with nothing to take North Liberty
92. 2000The 2000 census's 1,809 — the count that was corrected away Roseland
93. 2000–2026The Modern Course: Lay Governance, Graduate Return and the Conboy Decade Notre Dame
94. 2002–todayThe festival test: none in Lakeville — and the county's festival, founded and lost Lakeville
95. 2010The clerk-treasurers: Schosker, Naragon, Jozwiak Indian Village
96. 2020South Bend today South Bend
97. 2020The rehabilitation hospital at Edison Lakes, 2020 Mishawaka
98. 2020Granger Community Church: the succession of 2020 Granger
99. 2020Composition, second run: race and Hispanic origin Osceola
100. 2020–2026The remaking: data centers, a battery plant, and a town deciding New Carlisle
101. 2020–2024The Veteran Population, Dated: Twenty-Six Lakeville
102. 2020Density, rank, and the metro stated exactly North Liberty
103. 2020The frame Indian Village
104. 2020The frame Roseland
105. 2020The Presidential Medal of Freedom: Lou Holtz, for the Notre Dame years Notre Dame
106. 2021–2026The second attempt: the consolidation of 2021 — carried out Walkerton

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