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Neighborhood Landuse Timeline <br /> ,,,,''' =_ ....41-."' --- NEGRO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRESSES RAPIDLY. <br /> • <br /> f <br /> ,�� <br /> r- " • l <br /> /( / t.t rii'�;. I f \\ - _ :;ate - -� --- ■■ • <br /> —-----'. <br /> tow <br /> it it 0 A 8 . 1 s , r( i 4 -• \ " -,� !�. ■ I I <br /> o M2/) ryssy'E ` — i <br /> 1880 1900-1930 1943-1952 311 <br /> Beck's Lake Emerged Industrialization &Growth Housing Development <br /> As the former marsh waterways dried.some small By igoo,South Bend,Indiana.was a thriving industrial As South Bend's industries converted their production <br /> lakes appeared in the late igth century amidst the hub thanks to its strategic location.waterpower from during wartime era,much of the labor inside these <br /> former marsh bottom.Formerly known as LaSalle the St.Joseph River,and the presence of prominent factories came from Eastern Europeans and US <br /> Lake,Kankakee Lake then Stanfield Lake.Beck's manufacturers like Studebaker and the Oliver Chilled southerners fleeing violence and poverty. <br /> Lake first appeared on a 1863 land survey.It was soon Plow Works.Many key industries that started or <br /> identified as one of the clearest ice sources in the relocated to the broader LaSalle Park area included Driven in part by protests in other parts of the city and <br /> region and became a key source for ice harvesting Bendix Corporation.Singer Company.and the despite petitions against additional segregated housing <br /> into the early loth century.This led to it being named Malleable Steel Range Manufacturing Company.To in the area.LaSalle Park was designated as the site for <br /> after George Beck of the George Beck and Sons Ice accommodate the surrounding industrial growth with a temporary federal housing for African Americans to <br /> Harvesting Company new sewer installation in 1927,Beck's Lake was drained house the increased workforce In 1gg4 construction <br /> to a depth of 18 inches began on 3100 and 320o blocks of West Washington <br /> Street(present day LaSalle Park)resulting in twenty <br /> white cinder block duplexes that came to be known <br /> as"the barracks".The neighborhood strengthened as <br /> a major settlement area for African Americans over the <br /> next decade. <br /> Lp r-,ir4 1.1 ,r <br />