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Institutional feeding: the school cafeteria and the sugar cabin

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Banked this history, Schools and Black History, joined; corporation cafeteria records unreached

Two facts the build already held belong to one article: the town's diner feeds people in a school cafeteria, and the township's oldest surviving log building ended its working life boiling maple sap — institutional feeding at both ends of the record. The modern end: the School House Diner sits, in the banked food article's own words, in the former school cafeteria inside the Palmer Community Complex, the 1931 Lakeville school building — the room built to feed the township's schoolchildren now feeding the town as a restaurant, the one institutional-feeding succession the record documents whole. The school corporation's own cafeteria record — menus, staff, the feeding of LaVille's students across the consolidation — stands in no carrier reached, and the Union-North (now LaVille Community Schools) corporation's cafeteria records are named here as the settler for that limb. The early end: Hardy Manuel's log house on the Huggart Settlement ground, built by a carpenter who had worked in South Bend, was still standing in Karst's day in use as a maple-syrup evaporator house — the township's sugar-making carried on inside a settlement family's house, the only sugar-camp fact the record holds. The 1996 University of Notre Dame archaeological investigation of its site (site 12 SJ337) found no mid-nineteenth-century artefacts and concluded the cabin had been moved from elsewhere on the property; both the use and the investigation print, so the sugar cabin stands as a documented use of a moved building, not as a surviving sugar camp on its first ground.

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Source: Institutional feeding: the school cafeteria and the sugar cabin, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/food/institutional-feeding-the-school-cafeteria-and-the-sugar-cabin/