Local coverage
Project conversations across St. Joseph County and the South Bend metro.
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Mishawaka
Mishawaka started as four separate settlements before it was one city. The St. Joseph Iron Works, founded in 1831 on nearby bog-iron deposits,...
Local planning notes →Granger
Granger is bigger than plenty of incorporated Indiana towns and still isn't one. Founded in 1883 as a train depot and named for the Grangers...
Local planning notes →Osceola
Osceola in Penn Township replaced a failed neighbor. Williamsport, platted in December 1834, never took hold and was formally vacated by county order...
Local planning notes →New Carlisle
New Carlisle grew up around transportation twice over. The Michigan Road reached the settlement in the 1830s, not long after Richard Risley Carlisle...
Local planning notes →North Liberty
North Liberty holds onto its older character well enough that its business district has sought National Register historic-district designation. The...
Local planning notes →Lakeville
Lakeville grew slowly and locally before it grew as a town. Thirteen one-room schoolhouses served Union Township through the 1890s; only in 1898 did...
Local planning notes →Roseland
Roseland's footprint has never been large. Incorporated in 1916 about a mile north of South Bend, the town runs roughly four blocks wide and a...
Local planning notes →Elkhart
Elkhart's path from river-junction settlement to industrial hub took decades. Laid out in 1832 near where the St. Joseph and Elkhart rivers meet,...
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