Locke

Locke was platted December 20, 1865, and there were 47 lots laid out along with six streets. The 1881 Chapman's History of Elkhart County was the last to treat Locke as a village. It had a variety of stores including three dry good stores, a grocery store, two sawmills, forty dwellings, a hotel, three doctors, and many other businesses including a school.

The population in 1870 was 167, and by 1873 had grown to 200. By 1905, twenty-five to thirty people and a small store were left in Locke. Today only second-generation homes and buildings are in Locke.