Local coverage
Project conversations across St. Joseph County and the South Bend metro.
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Mishawaka
Mishawaka rebuilt itself once already, and the rebuilding shaped a lot of what still stands downtown. A fire in September 1872 wiped out...
Local planning notes →Granger
Granger's growth has mostly happened without a downtown core to organize around. The community traces to an 1883 train depot named for the...
Local planning notes →Osceola
Steamboats reached Osceola before the town had much of a name. Regular river traffic began in 1835 between Newburyport, Michigan and the St. Joseph...
Local planning notes →New Carlisle
New Carlisle's earliest industries ran on water and rail. Flour mills and sawmills anchored the town's economy after Richard Risley Carlisle...
Local planning notes →North Liberty
Like much of Liberty Township, North Liberty grew up around agriculture and the trade routes that connected farms to markets. Its business...
Local planning notes →Lakeville
A Lakeville post office has been running since 1850, but the town's real consolidation came later -- 13 rural one-room schoolhouses across Union...
Local planning notes →Roseland
Roseland sits in an unusual spot: a compact, narrow town -- about four blocks by a mile -- incorporated in 1916 right where South Bend meets the...
Local planning notes →Elkhart
Elkhart owes both its name and its location to water. Laid out in 1832 at the junction of Indian trails near where the St. Joseph and Elkhart rivers...
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