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ro HISTORY OF NEW CARLISLE downtownPublic New Carli� yr car.sle`boug Rise- OQ ARCHITECTURE sIe during Historical land in 1836. Carlisle x Days. platted the area, and T e the streets The town of New named O Carlisle is situated on Race, Arch, Filbert, �0 Cherry, Chestnut andthe central western Front, to his after s native edge e f o Olive C ci ty t f Philadelphia. T owns ' y o h� Section 4 0 3 P > Th e f e name Carlisl Ra nge e 1 We st, o �C 9 Hill was given to the �' Township 38 North. area until, in 1866, the >. Overlooking the Terre rie, the town was incorporated pg _ Coupee prai town sits upon a glacial under its present shelf nineteen miles name. „F < t t :« As in other areas of west of South Bend. z New Carlisle was the county, the con- '` established with the struction of the nifi- railroad was a si o ening of the 9 P >, Michigan Road in 1827, cant factor in the the first surveyed road growth of the town. In ' in the area It ran north 1851, the Lake Shore ;., . and Michigan Southern � � from the Ohio River was completed eted through r through Logansport toP 9 South Bend, where the New Carlisle which route turned west began a period of rapid ' y'p toward Michigan City growth for the town to avoid the Kankakee that extended into the earl twentieth century :.. .; "' :::..... Swamp. The last Y Y seg- ment of the road from and established it as a South Bend to Michigan commercial and The following history JOSEPH COUNTY -- Historic Landmarks City is presently called trading center for that of New Carlisle's ar- SUMMARY REPORT. Foundation of Indiana Lincolnway West (U.S. part of the county. chitecture was The report was and Southhold Restora- 20). By the spring of 1907, authored by Karen prepared through a tions, Inc. Bourissa Hill, as the two electric interurban Kiemnec, Director, Department of Interior Martha Choitz, area was then called, lines were also com- Historic Preservation grant administered by member of the Historic was so named for pleted, and a station Commission of South the Indiana Department Preservation Commit- Lazarus Bourissa (also was built on Zigler Str- Bend and St. Joseph of Natural Resources, tee, will present a 30 spelled Bourissau), an eet to accommodate County, as part of the Division of Historic minute lecture at 2 Indian who owned the passengers. Both lines INDIANA HISTORIC Preservation and Ar- p.m. Saturday after- land and operated a originated from South SITES AND STRUCTURES chaelogy and by funds noon at the New Carli- trading post on the hill. Bend. The Northern I INVENTORY ST. and grants from the sle Olive Township It was from his chil- Indiana Interurban ran through La Porte to Michigan City until it was forced out of business in 1932 and the Chicago South /0— / Shore, which is still in operation today, ran from South Bend to Chicago. Farming became the It 's a nice place to be areas leading industry with corn, wheat, and ain as the While in New Carlisle . 9 ops. Joseph Drul nere one of the first settlers • in Olive Township, owned and operated a ome flour mill by 1842 which could produce ten to twenty barrels of flour a day. Because milling was so profitable,a se- cond mill was con- structed by Morton and Brown on Michigan Street. Its capacity and productivity were three times that of the Druliner mill. The only remnant today of the milling industry in New I Carlisle is Carl Zahl's grain elevator and feed mill on Arch Street built in 1949. When the first set- tiers arrived, there First were extensive forests of oak, pine, and basswood in the area r� Interstate which made lumbering another thriving in- Q�/-�I,� dustry. The first record- LJ I Ir\ Downtown New Carlisle ed saw mill in New 654-3131 Member FDIC EQUAL HOUSING See ARCHITECTURE L E N D E R (Continued on Page 8)