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City Controversies · The Founding Fight, the Deeds, the Fees, and the Tested Negatives
The County-Seat Removal of 1830–31
1829–1831, WITH THE LOCAL NEGATIVE TO NOVEMBER 2026
The register asked for the courthouse fight, the election, the draft or the tax with money in it from this ground's founding era; the fight exists, it is the county's founding fight, and this article prints it whole — then prints…
Joseph County, the county's worked example, and the Granger layer named as GAP-C90-1
1922–1968, REPORTED 2002 AND 2026; THE CDP DIG NAMES ITS SETTLER
The HOA layer is banked (Neighborhoods: modern covenants, the Fox Chase porch, the Quail Ridge fence suit of 2004); this article digs below it, into the deed record — and finds the county's answer complete, a worked example at…
The textbook-fee and fee-as-tax lawsuits: the state cases, PHM as plaintiff four hundred times, and the 2023 abolition
1974–2023
No fee-as-tax suit names Penn-Harris-Madison as defendant in the record searched — and the row closes anyway, because the fight over whether a public school may charge for the schooling itself was fought in this county, by this…
Controversies Not Found in the Record
THE ASSEMBLED CLOSE · NOVEMBER 2026
From this section's digs: (1) No founding-era township scandal — no denied election, resisted draft, or tax revolt with money in it — exists for Clay or Harris township in the county histories or the draft record reached; the…