Goshen City Hall is located at 202 South 5th Street, Goshen, IN 46528. Phone: 574‑533‑8625.
Goshen as described in 1941 [1]
Goshen, a prosperous agricultural town, bears the unmistakable stamp of its large Mennonite population. Its industries include cabinet and veneer factories, and a plant manufacturing waterproof bags.
Neighborhoods
Amber Meadows
Apple Ridge
Bennington Heights
Bissells
Briarwood Manor
Bridlewood Estates
Broadview
Cedar Creek
Chamberlains
Clover Trails
College Green
Colonial Farms
Colonial Manor
Colonial Village
Concord Hill
Copper Ridge Estates
Courtyard Condos
Creekstone
Crest Acres
Deerfield
Dellameade
Dry Run Creek
Emerald Chase
Emerald Downs
Fairfield Farms
Fawn River
Fieldstone Crossing
Fieldstone Meadows
Goshen Historic District
Grand Prairie
Greenfield
Greenwood Place
Hatfields
Hidden Meadow
Indian Creek Colony
James Place
Jefferson Place
Jefferson Ridge
Jemian Trace
Keystone
Keystone Point
Larimer Greens
Larimer Village
Lynwood
Martin Manor
Meadow RIdge
Meadow RIdge Estates
Meadows of College Green
North Meadow Estates
Orchard Place
Racemere Manor
Ridgewood Place
Riverbend Estates
Rural Estates
Shady Lane Acres
Somerset Place
Southfield Place
Spring Brooke
Spring Brooke
State Street-Division Street Historic District
Stouder
Terrace Park
Terrace Park
The Gardens
Walden Woods
Waterford Commons
Weaver Woods
The Elkhart County Courthouse, a red brick structure built in 1868, occupies a shady spot in the center of the city. A large statue of Neptune on his sea horse forms a fountain in a pool in the courthouse yard.
Goshen College occupies a 20-acre campus and has seven brick buildings. The average annual enrollment is 350; courses are offered in theology, liberal arts and teacher training. This coeducational institution, the only 4-year college of the Mennonite Church in the Nation, evolved from the Elkhart Academy, founded in 1894. The academy was reorganized as a junior college in 1903.
The story of Goshen College is meshed with the history of the Mennonites and Amish in Indiana. Members of these denominations form a large part of the population of Elkhart County. The Amish, attracted by the fertile soil, arrived in 1841, and the Mennonites 2 years later, only 11 years after the first followers of the doctrines of Menno Simons reached the United States.
Indiana Writers' Project, Federal Works Agency, Works Progress Administration, Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, American Guide Series, 1941, Department of Public Relations, Indiana State Teachers College.
