Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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FIRST NATIONAL BANK TWENTY FOURTH LARGEST IN STATE DOMINATES SOUTH SIDE FOUR CORNERS 3 Z Y We S' .

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thdt fc THIS IS MISHAWAKA THE ONLY CITY WITH THAT NAME IN THE UNITED STATES NI 1831 one hunched 1310116815 la1d out the Qettle ment of St Joaeph I1on Wo1kQ along the St Joe IXINGI In the next f1V9 yealb thev bullt a poqt Off1C6 a b11dge and the IIVQI s fnat dam In 1839 the town and tue foul adjacent settlements totahng 862 people merged 1nto one vlllage M1Sh3XK aka X hlch means SXKIIEIL waters Spleadlng out along the 11ver and the New York Central RHIIIOEICI the town grew to a populat1on of 32 878 bv 1950 MISHAWAKA STRETCHES FIVE AND ONE HALF MILES EAST AND WEST TWO MILES NORTH AND SOUTH EJ u bp. 2 1 , E E . x . . A V. ' 1' , . ' ' .N ' - - w N . 1. ' I fl. I, . i 7 1 L ' A , 1 . ' ' ' ,I , , r 7 Me o is spireis V ' L' H ' In ' ' ' ' Iandmarko ity . . . , . 7 v Y ' a . ' ' 1 1 2 , ' - ,Wm -QJ g ,A--YEL -'W V gr ff J . - lg ' -if , . ' 1 A .I , ' .II Y I ffl A X ' - . I If Q Ld - 'Q' - , -- ' 1 I I ' - . ' -' gn ' ' ,Q - 1. g ,I 'I v A ' 1' . ' ' su . - nn

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5 ' -L 'IT Mlshawaka 1 Iron fireman is on Wheelabrator tower AT HOYT'S Donald Checkley cleans a machine that either puts out l8OO screws a minute or spends three minutes making one screw. Some of these screws are so small that l6,000 of them tit in the palm cf a hand. -l HER INDUSTRIES MAKE sucn Tmmcs AS AIRPLANE FUEL CELLS AND wATcH scasws SETTLERS came to Mishawaka to utilize the water power from the St, Joe River and the bog iron de- posits. In 1833, using iron processed by a newly built blast furnace, Mishawakans made some of the first iron products to be manufactured west of the Ap- palachian Mountains. Today Mishawakals 117 in- dustries, With an annual payroll of over 29 million dollars, produce a variety of products from shoe lasts to beer, fire crackers to caskets, and stetho- scopes to sewer pipes.