Local coverage
Project conversations across St. Joseph County and the South Bend metro.
Actual coverage tracks independent provider availability rather than a fixed map. Each town below has its own page of housing and site context.
Mishawaka
Mishawaka's downtown got its present shape twice over. The settlement began with bog-iron mining in the early 1830s -- the St. Joseph Iron Works,...
Local planning notes →Granger
Granger never became its own city. What started in 1883 as a train depot -- named for the Grangers, a farmers' fraternal and educational...
Local planning notes →Osceola
Osceola wasn't the first town platted along this stretch of the St. Joseph River -- that was Williamsport, laid out in December 1834 and...
Local planning notes →New Carlisle
New Carlisle's name change tells its own story. The settlement was first known as Bourissa Hill, for Potawatomi landowner Lazarus Bourissa,...
Local planning notes →North Liberty
North Liberty's business district has applied for National Register historic-district designation, a reflection of how much of the town's...
Local planning notes →Lakeville
Lakeville's school history says a lot about how the town grew. As late as the 1890s, the surrounding Union Township countryside was served by 13...
Local planning notes →Roseland
Roseland is a narrow town by design -- about four blocks wide and a mile long, incorporated in 1916 just a mile north of South Bend, with State Road...
Local planning notes →Elkhart
Elkhart takes its name from the shape of an island, not a person. The town was laid out in 1832 near the confluence of the St. Joseph and Elkhart...
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