Lydick, Indiana

Lydick is an unincorporated community in Warren Township, St. Joseph County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

Lydick, Indiana
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 41°41′36″N 86°22′38″W
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	St. Joseph
Township	Warren
Elevation	738 ft (225 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	46628
Area code	574
GNIS feature ID	452674

The community is part of the South Bend–Mishawaka, IN-MI, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Lydick originally had three different names, which were Warren Center, Sweet Home, and Lindley.

There remains an abutment of the St Joseph, South Bend & Southern which was part of the Michigan Central Railroad. A bridge formerly was there, which was built in 1910 which was part of the trackage elevation project by the St. Joseph South Bend & Southern Railroad (SJSB&S), but was dismantled in 1943 about immediately after Michigan Central abandoned its line there within a year. The SJSB&S connected St. Joesph to South Bend of a branch from New York Central's Water Level Route (now under the control of Norfolk Southern since 1999)

The Michiana Pallet Recycle Company is a place where people recycle pallets. It is located on Quince Road, between the Norfolk Southern and South Shore Line tracks which serve and run past Lydick as an train-horn area.

There is talks ongoing to convert this town into a quiet zone, but such acceptance would be required by both the South Bend government and Federal Railroad Administration.

Lydick was platted during 1831-82, in which later a post office opened under the name Warren Centre in 1839. It was renamed to Sweet Home in 1885, and in 1902 was renamed again to Lindley. It was renamed once more to Lydick in 1909, and was discontinued in 1913.

Education

Lydick originally had 2 schools, a Lydick middle-high school and Warren Elementary of which they no longer exist. Lydick School (1925-1969, torn in 1992)was built in the 1920's which housed up to 1300 students. The school had become abandoned in 1969-1970, and led to the construction of Warren Elementary School in 1957. Lydick School eventually got torn down in 1992, even though it was abandoned just 25 years prior in 1969-70.

Warren Primary/Elementary School was an elementary school which was built by the South Bend Community School Corporation (SBCSC). It was opened in 1957, which was expanded in 1964 and then again 1980. It was then put under control of the South Bend Empowerment Zone in the mid 2010s, which led to problems and failures with the school management sector which the school was eventually being shuttered being the last day on June 1st, 2024. The future of Warren is unknown, and cannot be determined if an auction will be held or not.

Transportation

Although there is no bus service scheduled for this town, there have been multiple railroads that has stopped here.

The Northern Indiana Railroad (Chicago South Bend & Northern Indiana) had a flag stop, which was constructed in the 1900s for a line and was torn down in 1933. The station has now been converted and bought out by a house.

The South Shore Line had a station stop here, built in 1908 as a station stop. It was then downgraded to simply a flag stop in 1970 and was ultimately torn down in 1978. A nearby station "Warren" might have existed around this station, however such station was burned down in 1936 as a structure fire.

New York Central and then Penn Central for a short time had a stop here in Lydick until 1971. At that time, Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited had taken over the line, then in December 1990 the Capitol Limited. Nearby stations are simply South Bend, and Elkhart, Indiana. There are plans going forward to potentially re-use the station, as mentioned on WNDU 16 before. Such acceptance would be required by Amtrak itself, the FRA would not be involved as the equipment that would be needed already would likely exist and a rerouting would not be required.

The last train that left Lydick was on April 31st 1971 at around 10:59pm, and Amtrak then took over an hour later. More information is needed to confirm that all of the details are indeed true.

Highways

Measured by the intersection of Quince and Edison

• Indiana State Route 2 is located South, which redirects to South Bend, Indiana (going east) and towards La Porte, Indiana going west. This route used to run directly in a route which is occupied by Indiana State Road 933, and Indiana State Road 120. There was another route, Indiana State Road 220 which ran close in Rolling Prairie it was assigned in 1935 but abandoned just 3 years later, in 1938. This route is now just simply County Roads.
• US Highway 20 is located North, which will go into direct downtown South Bend toward(going east) and towards New Carlisle, Indiana, Burns Harbor, and Chicago going west.