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A Standard History of Starke County, Indiana
McCormick, Joseph N. - 1915

     [46-47]

                          NORTH BEND TOWNSHIP

           A sketch of the several townships would certainly be in order
        here.  North Bend being one of the first townships settled in the
        county, with the most of her old citizens gone before, the
        interests are not forgotten by the generations coming on as can be
        seen by the farms that are opened up and the building that is done
        from year to year.  Also the ditching that has been done during the
        last twenty or thirty years has brought the lowlands into a state
        of cultivation where all kinds of grain and fruit are raised.
        Schoolhouses dot the township all over and miles and miles of good
        gravel and macadam roads have been built, which make North Bend
        Township rank with her sister townships in all that is good and
        useful as a part of Starke County.  Each year adds to the list of
        gravel roads constructed in that township, almost all the main
        traveled ways having now become fine gravel roads.  This is a great
        benefit to any community, and a thing that was not known of years
        ago.  It is a great pleasure for those now living in this locality
        to have good roads to travel upon instead of the winding sand roads
        of several years ago.
           This township (North Bend) is located in the southeast corner of
        the county and is six miles square, containing thirty-six square
        miles of territory, being six miles east and west by six miles
        north and south, and contains some of the best soil for farms in
        the county.  Her lakes and rivers all go to make up a township for
        which the first settlers have had no occasion to regret their
        choice of location.  It was named North Bend Township for the great
        north bend in the Tippecanoe River, a bend in that river extending
        and traversing the southern part of the township for a distance of
        some three miles, thus giving this township a taste of the waters
        of that fine channel of a pure and healthful stream, shaded by a
        magnificent body of timber upon its shores.
           Attracted to this township by reason of the wonderful Bass Lake,
        it is no wonder that North Bend Township was one among the first to
        be settled in Starke County.  Upon the cold and frozen shores of
        this lake the farmers would employ their time at hunting and fish-
        ing during the winter months, but as soon as the bright and shining
        sun began to cast her rays of warmth from above, they would give
        their attention to farming and raising crops, which have been im-
        proving ever since the hunter and trapper brushed the icicles off
        his brow upon the shores of "Cedar," or Bass Lake, so long ago.
           William P. Castleman was elected six years ago to serve his
        township as trustee, a position that he has filled with a credit to
        the people and an honor to himself.  No office in the county is
        more important than that of the township trustee, as he stands be-
        tween the people and the finances of his township, and it is to the
        interest of the people to look well to the matter of electing good
        men to conduct the affairs of their township.  In managing the
        affairs of North Bend Township, Mr. Castleman has certainly lived
        up to the highest obligations of his office.

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