Establishing an Historic Landmark - 935 S Ironwood Dr

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935 South Ironwood legal description Lot 6, 7 O.P. River Park Key Number: 3 -06 -18/32 -945 historical notes The North fraction, of the North West 1/4, of Section No. 17, Township No. 37 North, Range 3 East, containing 103.30 acres was entered as United States Land, 18th November 1830 by Daniel Kripe (Cripe) of Montgomery County, Ohio. This land was registered in the land office at Fort Wayne the lst of March 1831 (Deed Record 156, page 633). Although some of Daniel Cripe's brothers remained in St. Joseph County, Daniel did not, and in 1840 from Wabash Go., Indiana, he gave a Warranty Deed to Nathan and Electra Russ of St. Joseph County. Nathan and Electra Russ of the Township of Mish- awaka deeded the property in 1844 back to Daniel Cripe. The land changed hrnds from Daniel Cripe to A. B. Judson to Dewitt Eggleston, to Robert Montgomery, to Mary E. Warden. Mary E. Warden sold her land to Albert and Ida M. Horne and Benjamin and Mary V. Dunn. On the 7th of April 1892, Albert Horne and Benjamin Dunn recorded the orig- ingal plat for River Park 7th April 1892. On the 6th of June 1892, they sold Lot 6 O.P. River Park on West Street to Charles A. Byers for :190.00. Byers and his wife, Maria E., recorded, (1892 1894) three mortgages on Lot 6 with the Building and Loan Association of Lough ^end to secure payments of $800., $100., and $186.00. The property was sold at a tax sale in 1895 for delinquent taxes for the years 1893 and 18911. The Building and Loan Association had the sale cancelled, and on the 4th of September 1895, they received a Warranty Deed from Charles and Maria Byers. The Byers reserved possession of the premises until the 6th of November 1895. Charles Byers was a carpenter and he surely must have built a house,on Lot 6 between 1892-and 1895• On the 25th of August 1896, the Building and Loan Association of South Bend sold Lot 61 O.P. River Park to William T. Hutchison for a consideration of $1,000.00. The price would indicate that there was a house on Lot 6 as the Hutchison paid only $400.00 for Lot 7, of the same size, six years later. The Hutchison :.ortgaged Lot 6 for $500.00 in 1896 and $800.00 in 1897, but both of these mortgages were released by 1900. The 1898 South Bend Directory lists William T. and Maggie Hutchison living on Hest Street in River Park, Post Office,, South Bend. William Hutchison was a pattern maker who first worked for South Bend Chilled Plow, but by 1899, he was a pattern maker at.the Oliver Plcsr Plant. There is a record of three children born to William T. and Maggie (Brown) Hutchison in South 'end. In the 1905 Directory, West Street had been changed to South Ctb Street. The 1.906 Directory lists William Iutchison still a pattern maker at Olivers, and it also shows he served as Treasurer of the River Park School Board. The 1910 Directory lists the Hutchison house as 935 South 6tit Street. (continued on white sheet) source of information (on white sheet)