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The 1880 county history. History of Allen County, Indiana, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Chicago: Kingman Brothers, 1880. Township maps, plates and sketches, and — read here as a document of its own time — G. W. Robertson's chapter "Prehistoric Remains," the antiquarian record of the county's mounds and earthworks.
What it proved here: Robertson's mound-by-mound catalogue (the Cedar Creek concentration, the four-mound group near Stoner's station, the three historic burying grounds) is the fullest nineteenth-century account of earthworks that farming has since levelled; the before-the-city leg prints his observations with his period "Mound-builder" framing named as the period's theory, not as fact. The volume also carries the portage description — "about four feet of earth" at the divide — quoted in the land leg.
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- The before-the-city, land, government and spine legs.