Mishawaka () is a city on the St. Joseph River, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States. The population was 51,063 as of the 2020 census. Its nickname is "the Princess City". Mishawaka is a principal city of the

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-Mishawaka, Indiana — Michigan, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Mishawaka's recorded history began with the discovery of

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deposits at the beginning of the 1830s. Settlers arriving to mine the deposits founded the town of St. Joseph Iron Works in 1831. Within a few years, the town had a blast furnace, a general store, a tavern, and about 200 residents. Business prospered, and in 1833 St. Joseph Iron Works, Indiana City, and two other adjacent small towns were incorporated to form the city of Mishawaka. The Mishawaka post office has been in operation since 1833. On June 27, 1859, a bridge carrying a train, which had over 150 people on board, collapsed, killing 60. In September 1872, a fire destroyed three quarters of Mishawaka's business district. However, the citizens rebuilt and attracted new industry. The Dodge Manufacturing Company, Perkins Windmills and the Mishawaka Woolen and Rubber Company (later Ball Band, then

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) all helped the town to prosper. Mishawaka grew through both industry and agriculture. In the late 19th century, Mishawaka became known as the "Peppermint Capital of the World", as its rich black loam produced great quantities of mint. From 1906 to 1915, Mishawaka was the manufacturing home of the luxurious American Simplex motor car. Ball Band made rubber garments and was hit by a major strike in 1931. It flourished in the 1940s, finally closing in 1997 in the face of cheaper imports. Manufacturing in Mishawaka peaked in the 1940s and began a slow decline due to industrial restructuring. The economic base shifted to retail services and small industry. In 1979,

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opened in the far northern portion of Mishawaka. In 1990,

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began producing the

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in its Mishawaka plant. The

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and replaces the planned

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. The car is built in Mishawaka at an

plant. AM General has begun making Mercedes vehicles at this plant since 2015.

Names

One theory for the word Mishawaka proposes that it derives from the name of a

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village at the junction of the Elkhart and St. Joseph rivers, where there were many dead trees. The village's exact name in the

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may have been * ("at the firewood-tree land"). In the Miami-Illinois language, which historically was also spoken in the area, the corresponding placename is ("it is firewood-tree land"). The most probable origin of the word comes from the city's government website, where in a history of Mishawaka paper written by local historian Peter DeKever states, "The Potawatomi had numerous villages in the region, including one on the south bank of the St. Joseph River located in the area bounded today by Lincolnway West and North Main and West Streets. The Potawatomi were drawn to this location by the ease of transport the river provided, a ford near a natural rapids, abundant fish and game, and access to timber. Their term for the area, M’Shehwahkeek, translates as swift flowing water or heavy timbered rapids." This theory is also mentioned by The History Museum of South Bend, and other sources. The nickname "Princess City", however, derives from a different account of the name's origin. According to this story, "Mishawaka" or something similar was the name of the daughter of a

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chief named "Elkhart". A

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between Mishawaka, a white trader named "Dead Shot", and a Shawnee warrior named "Grey Wolf" led to various adventures. This story originated with

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, a Michigan author, politician and judge, who published a collection of stories in 1875; in Littlejohn's account, the woman's name was "Mishawaha". Despite the story being completely fictional, it became popular and helped foster the legend that is known to this day. Even though the story is from a work of fiction, many residents believe Princess Mishawaka was real because of a "symbolic grave marker" of her erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution to promote the centennial of the City of Mishawaka in 1932. Lack of context has led to many believing that the site is the actual grave of the princess, and that the legend was true. In many ways, Princess Mishawaka represents a mascot for the city.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, Mishawaka has a total area of , of which (or 97.99%) is land and (or 2.01%) is water.

Demographics

As of 2000 the median income for a household in the city was $33,986, and the median income for a family was $41,947. Males had a median income of $33,878 versus $23,672 for females. The

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for the city was $18,434. About 7.3% of families and 9.9% of the population were below the

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, including 11.7% of those under age 18 and 7.3% of those age 65 or over.

2010 census

As of the

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of 2010, there were 48,252 people, 21,343 households, and 11,730 families residing in the city. The

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was . There were 24,088 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 86.1%

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, 6.9%

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, 0.4% Native American, 1.9% Asian, 0.1%

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, 1.6% from other races, and 2.9% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 4.5% of the population. There were 21,343 households, of which 28.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.5% were

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living together, 14.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 45.0% were non-families. 37.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.92. The median age in the city was 34.7 years. 23.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 11.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 28.3% were from 25 to 44; 23.7% were from 45 to 64; and 13.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.1% male and 52.9% female.

Culture

Old-fashioned neighborhoods are found across the city. Many of the newer residential subdivisions that have been developed within the city in recent years have adopted design guidelines to produce the "hometown" neighborhood feel and encourage community spirit. The city continually upgrades and develops new neighborhood park and recreation facilities. A total of 29 parks allow Mishawaka residents to golf, play ball, fish and exercise. In 1968, the city opened an outdoor

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and an adjacent ice skating rink at Merrifield Park. On the south side, Mishawaka's George Wilson Park is home to the city's most popular winter toboggan spot, as well as an 18-hole frisbee golf course. Some of the city's Italian immigrants and their descendants still play traditional games such as

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. A number of residents of Belgian descent play traditional Rolle Bolle and a few ethnic Belgians continue to raise and race

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. The city also hosted the nation's oldest and largest

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tournament, the World Wiffle Ball Championship, from 1980 to 2012 and again in 2020. The city's three

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(

Mishawaka High School Mishawaka High School is a public high school located in Mishawaka, Indiana. The school educates students in grades 9–12 and is part of the School City of Mishawaka. History The first Mishawaka High School was proposed by the Mishawaka Town Bo ...

Penn High School Penn High School is a public high school located in Mishawaka, Indiana, United States, near South Bend. It is the only high school in the Penn-Harris-Madison (PHM) School Corporation. The district includes all of Osceola and portions of Gr ...

, and Marian High School) have won a combined 11 state championships in football since 1920.

Transportation

Mishawaka is served by TRANSPO municipal bus system, which also serves South Bend and several smaller suburbs in South Bend-Mishawaka metropolitan region. The Interurban Trolley's Bittersweet/Mishawaka route stops at Martin's Supermarket, connecting riders to the city of Elkhart and the town of

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. The closest Amtrak station and the closest commercial airport are both located in western South Bend. Amtrak also has a stop in Elkhart which is a bit closer.

Major highways

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, which is

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and

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. *

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Indiana State Road 23 State Road 23 is a highway in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Indiana. In practice it runs from the southwest to the northeast, though it is designated as a north–south route.

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* Indiana State Road 933

Education

Public schools

Public schools in Mishawaka and/or serving Mishawaka are operated by several school districts. School City of Mishawaka serves the central part of the city. Other sections are within the

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and the South Bend Community School Corporation.

is the sole high school of the Mishawaka school district. School City of Mishawaka (School District of Mishawaka) contains a total of 9 Schools including 2 secondary Schools: Mishawaka High and John Young Middle School, and 7 Elementary Schools which includes the following: Battell, Beiger, Emmons, Hums, LaSalle, Liberty, and Twin Branch. Penn-Harris elementary schools serving sections of Mishawaka include Walt Disney (in the Mishawaka city limits), Elm Road, Meadow's Edge, Prairie Vista, and Elsie Rogers; the middle schools respectively are Schmucker and Grissom.

, outside of the city limits, is the sole public high school of the Penn-Harris-Madison school district. Aside from Walt Disney Elementary, none of the other respective schools are in the Mishawaka city limits. The school zonings for the South Bend School Corporation area are as follows (none of the schools are in Mishawaka): Darden Elementary School Edison Middle School and Adams High School. The section was in 2020 zoned to Tarkington Elementary, which closed in 2021.

Private and tertiary education, and libraries

The

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operates four private Catholic schools in Mishawaka, including Marian High School. Bethel University is an accredited evangelical Christian liberal arts school with 1,700 students. Mishawaka has a

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, a branch of the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library system.

Media

One major daily newspaper serving the South Bend and Mishawaka metro area, the ''

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''. It is distributed in north central Indiana and southwestern Michigan. Mishawaka has a wide variety of local radio broadcast available in the area. Stations' programming content contains a wide variety including

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, and

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among others. For more information, see List of Radio Stations in Mishawaka, Indiana. As of 2013, the South Bend-Mishawaka-Elkhart

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was the 95th largest in the United States, with 319,860 (0.3% of the US population) homes.The Nielsen Company.
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." ''

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.'' Retrieved on January 26, 2008. Most of the major television networks have affiliates in the Michiana area. Mishawaka located stations include

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(

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( CW) and

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(

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). Stations located in nearby

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include

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), WNIT-TV (

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) and

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Notable people

* Sarah Evans Barker — judge *

Remo Belli Remo Delmo Belli (June 22, 1927 – April 25, 2016) was an American jazz drummer who developed and marketed the first successful synthetic drumheads and founded the Remo company. Biography Belli was born in Mishawaka, Indiana, and began drumming ...

— creator of Remo Drum Heads *

Kyle Bornheimer Kyle Bornheimer (born September 10, 1975) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his roles on the sitcoms ''Worst Week'', ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', '' Casual'', and '' Playing House''. Life and career Bornheimer attended St. Monica Gr ...

— actor *

John Brademas Stephen John Brademas Jr. (March 2, 1927 – July 11, 2016) was an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 a ...

— politician *

Conte Candoli Secondo "Conte" Candoli (July 12, 1927 – December 14, 2001) was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orc ...

— jazz musician (played trumpet in Doc Severinsen's ''The Tonight Show Band'') *

Pete Candoli Walter Joseph "Pete" Candoli(June 28, 1923 – January 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton and worked in the studios of the recording and television industries. Career A native ...

— jazz musician (played trumpet in Woody Herman's Big Band) * Devin Cannady — professional basketball player * Timothy J. DeGeeter — politician *

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— actor *

Norman Eddy Norman S. Eddy (December 10, 1810 – January 28, 1872) was an American politician and military officer. He served as a member of the Indiana State Senate from 1850 to 1853 and a U.S. Representative of Indiana from 1853 to 1855. He then served as ...

— Indiana Secretary of State *

Tom Ehlers Thomas Slick Ehlers (born July 14, 1952) is a former American football linebacker. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Buffalo Bills. Ehlers played college football at the Universit ...

—

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football player *

Buddy Emmons Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. Affectionately known ...

— pedal steel guitarist *

Freddie Fitzsimmons Frederick Landis Fitzsimmons (July 28, 1901 – November 18, 1979) was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher, manager, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodg ...

—

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pitcher and manager * Todd A. Fonseca — author * Daniel L. Gard — Navy chaplain *

Lisa Germano Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana. Her album '' Geek the Girl'' (1994) was named one of the best albums of the 1990s by ''Spin'' magazine. She began her career as a viol ...

— musician *

Ben Goldwasser Benjamin Nicholas Hunter Goldwasser (born December 17, 1982) is an American songwriter and musician in the psychedelic rock band MGMT, for which he primarily plays keyboards and sings. In 2009, his song "Electric Feel" (co-written with bandmate ...

— keyboardist * Kevin Gosztola — journalist, writer, documentarian *

George Gulyanics George Gulyanics (June 11, 1921 – January 19, 1990) was born in Mishawaka, Indiana and was a professional American football player who played halfback and punter for six seasons for the Chicago Bears. Biography Gulyanics won the South Bend ...

— professional football player (Chicago Bears) *

Robin Hood Robin Hood is a legendary noble outlaw, heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions o ...

— LPGA Tour golfer *

Zander Horvath Alexander "Zander" John Horvath (born December 10, 1998) is an American professional Running back for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Purdue, and has previously played in the NFL for the Los Ange ...

— NFL running back for the Los Angeles Chargers * Charles Kuhl — World War II soldier, famous for being slapped by General Patton, which led to Patton losing his command *

Allan Lane Allan "Rocky" Lane (born Harry Leonard Albershardt; September 22, 1909 – October 27, 1973) was an American studio leading man and the star of many cowboy B-movies in the 1940s and 1950s. He appeared in more than 125 films and TV shows i ...

— actor *

Liz Richardson Elizabeth Ann Richardson (8 June 1918 – 25 July 1945) was a volunteer for the American Red Cross during World War II known for being one of the four women buried at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Early life Richardson was born ...

— Red Cross Volunteer * Chick Maggioli — professional football player *

Ruth McKenney Ruth Marguerite McKenney (November 18, 1911 – July 25, 1972) was an American author and journalist, best remembered for ''My Sister Eileen'', a memoir of her experiences growing up in Ohio and moving to Greenwich Village with her sister Eileen ...

— author * Lou Mihajlovich — professional football player * William J. Oliver — contractor *

Anna Rohrer Anna Rohrer (born February 24, 1997) is an American long-distance runner and former student-athlete at the University of Notre Dame. She won four high school national championships and was named the Foot Locker female cross country athlete of the ...

— long-distance runner * Mike Rosenthal — NFL offensive lineman *

Irene Vernon Irene Vernon (born Irene Vergauwen, January 16, 1922 – April 21, 1998) was an American actress. Background Vernon was born Irene Vergauwen in Mishawaka, Indiana, and graduated from Mishawaka High School. Following graduation, she moved to ...

— actress *

Sharon Versyp Sharon Versyp (born December 3, 1965) is an American former basketball player who is the head coach of the University of South Carolina Beaufort women's basketball team and the former head coach of the Purdue University women's basketball team ...

— Purdue women's basketball coach *

Joy Lynn White Joy Lynn White (born October 2, 1961) (also known as Joy White) is an American country music singer-songwriter. White was born in Bentonville, Arkansas but raised in Mishawaka, Indiana. Signed to Columbia Records in 1992, she released her debut al ...

— country western musician

Points of interest

* Beutter Park - The new park includes a river race with elliptical-shaped overlook weirs and fiber-optic underwater lighting, two connecting bridges across the St. Joseph River race to the park, the Mishawaka Riverwalk, the "Shards" sculpture, and an 800-foot perennial garden. * Battell Park Historic District, has Classical Revival style Band Shell and a WPA-built terraced rock garden. * Old Mishawaka Carnegie Library on N. Hill St - closed as a library in 1969 and is now a restaurant. * Shiojiri Garden, located in Merrifield Park, is a Japanese strolling garden that symbolizes the Sister-City relationship between Mishawaka and Shiojiri City, Japan. * The Beiger Mansion, built in 1903 and restored in 1973, was gutted by arson in 1974. The building has since been renovated. It is operated as a bed-and-breakfast and events facility. *The Otis R. Bowen Museum, located on the campus of Bethel College, houses memorabilia and artifacts related to Dr.

Otis Bowen Otis Ray Bowen (February 26, 1918 – May 4, 2013) was an American politician and physician who served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan from ...

's years as Governor of Indiana and Secretary of Health and Human Services. It has a copy of the Otis Bowen bust. * In addition to the Battell Park Historic District, Beiger Mansion, and Old Mishawaka Carnegie Library, the Dodge House, Eller-Hosford House, Ellis-Schindler House, Kamm and Schellinger Brewery, Merrifield-Cass House, and Normain Heights Historic District are listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

. The Tivoli Theater, demolished in 2005, was formerly listed.Cinema Treasures: Mishawaka's Tivoli Succumbs to Wrecking Ball
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International Sister cities

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* Shiojiri, Japan

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City of Mishawaka, Indiana websiteSt. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce
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