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The directory course, 1862–1921
The first census of vehicle sellers on any Indiana ground is the gazetteer record of wagon shops, carriage works, livery stables, and blacksmiths, and for this ground it is answered by the frames already banked: the township's nineteenth-century vehicle trades stood on other sections of Clay Township, in the township course of the before-the-city section, and this section — the twenty-fifth — was Eaton ground and then farm ground, in the farms section's telling. When the automobile came, the place did not yet exist to receive a dealer: the name course opens in 1958/1959, over farmland that was only then becoming the subdivision. A franchise point is granted to a place, by a factory, through a named dealer; each of those three elements would leave a record, and the three tests that follow cover them.