Newspaper Tidbits from Rick B Tuesday, April 4, 2006 "The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, January 15, 1898, page 5 "I well remember the first freight shipped by rail from Mishawaka," said Mr. Aaron Webster, the other day in speaking of early times in St. Joseph county. "The Lake Shore road, or that which is the Lake Shore road now, then the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana, was built here in the fall of 1851, and the first freight train that went east took eight barrels of cranberries from Mishawaka. There were no depot buildings or anything like a depot platform at that station then. The cranberries were loaded into the car right from the ground. They were picked in the marsh just south of Mishawaka, growing wild there, and they were enough sight better than any of the cultivated fruit that I have come across since. I had a contract on the railroad when it went through this county and ran a big gang of men cutting away the timber and brush from the right of way through the grapevine woods just east of Terre Coupee prairie."