Local coverage
Project conversations across St. Joseph County and the South Bend metro.
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Mishawaka
Long before Mishawaka carried the nickname 'the Princess City,' it was an iron town. Bog-iron deposits drew settlers who founded the St....
Local planning notes →Granger
Granger's identity runs through two townships instead of one city hall. The community began in 1883 as a rail depot named for the Grangers...
Local planning notes →Osceola
Water carried Osceola's earliest history. William and Timothy Moat settled the area in 1829, probably traveling in by the St. Joseph River; by...
Local planning notes →New Carlisle
Before it was New Carlisle, this was Bourissa Hill, named for the Potawatomi landowner who held the ground. Gymnast and acrobat Richard Risley...
Local planning notes →North Liberty
Liberty Township's namesake town grew up as a stop along regional trade routes in the area's agricultural era, and enough of that original...
Local planning notes →Lakeville
The Lakeville post office has operated since 1850, anchoring a Union Township community that spent decades as a scattering of rural schoolhouses --...
Local planning notes →Roseland
Since incorporating in 1916, Roseland has stayed a narrow strip of a town -- roughly four blocks wide and a mile long -- squeezed between South Bend...
Local planning notes →Elkhart
Railroads, not rivers, built modern Elkhart. The town was laid out in 1832 near the confluence of the St. Joseph and Elkhart rivers, but it was the...
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