Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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SI rnrrn min i m i .llllllllllll llllll: 1 ■ -liTffl D The Old Elkhart High School The first survey for a town site was made for Dr. Beardsley by George Crawford in 1832. The first manufactury was a saw mill erected by John Huntsman. The first house in town was built by Horace Root, the second was built by Samuel Beebe on the corner of Main and Jackson streets. For several years the Post Office bore the name of Pulaski and rceived and dispatched mail once a week. George Crawford was the first Postmaster. In 1836 the village had only 200 inhabitants. Samuel Beebe opened the first mercantile establishment on the site now oc- cupied by the Hotel Bucklen. Other early merchants were Brodrick Defress, Crawford, Davenport and Elijah Beardsley who are almost without exception represented by descendants in or near the city at the present time. The city was given its present name by Dr. Beardsley because of an island at the confluence of the two rivers which resembles the heart of an Elk. iiii ' .imiiiiiiiiiTT iiniiiiiimiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiinr — 6 —

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