The district also boasts a Spanish Immersion program at 1 elementary school. By 1990 Castleton had become the most intensively developed retail district in Marion County.Īs the school-age population increased, the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township expanded to 2 early learning centers, 11 elementary schools (4 with early learning centers), 2 middle schools, and 2 high schools. Later, the construction of I-69 spurred development north to the county line. Castleton Square Shopping Mall, opened in 1972 just off the interstate, brought explosive growth to the east 82nd Street corridor.

Apartment complexes were built near the east 56th Street interchange in the 1970s and 1980s. Ten years later construction of I-465 stimulated additional development, particularly in Lawrence and Castleton.

By the 1950s middle class and working-class residents commuted by car from homes in new developments, such as Devington, to work in the industrial plants along Shadeland Avenue or at the U.S.

Shortly thereafter the increasing popularity of the automobile stimulated the development of affluent suburbs such as Brendonwood (1917) along Fall Creek. In 1903, the federal government purchased land for Fort Benjamin Harrison, a sprawling facility that would later become the township’s largest employer.

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