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1834–1890s
Township ground, bounded on four sides by named roads. The settlement was confined, in Frederick Karst's account, to one section of land: Section 29, Township 36 North, Range 2 East, in the northwest corner of Union Township, northwest of Lakeville — bounded on the north by Osborne Road, on the south by Indiana Highway 4, on the east by Mulberry Road, and on the west by Oak Road. Karst's own sentence fixes the western relation exactly: Oak Road was "the eastern limit of the state recreation area," so the settlement lay east of Potato Creek State Park, outside it — the park, and the burying ground inside it, stand in the neighbouring Liberty Township, one range west (T36N R1E). The Department of Natural Resources' summary — the settlement "located in southern St. Joseph County near present-day Potato Creek State Park" — is a proximity statement, and it is printed as one: no carrier read places the settlement itself inside the park. The thing inside the park is Porter-Rea Cemetery, and it has its own article below.