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The First Boards, 1902–2010: An Open Question

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1902–2010 · gap stated November 2026; settlers named and current

Lakeville incorporated in 1902, and for the town's first hundred and eight years of boards, the open record reached by this build names not one president, not one clerk, not one member. This article exists to say exactly that, at the place the checklist asks the question, rather than to let the silence pass as coverage. No pre-2011 schedule, minute book or roster for the town was reached from any open source; the county histories close in 1880 and 1907 and profile the township's officers, not the incorporated town's boards, and the gazetteers name postmasters and justices, not councils. The gap is therefore a NAMED GAP in the audit's own terms — undiggable from open sources — and its settlers are named and current: the town's own first minute books, from the incorporation of 1902 forward, held by the town; and the SBOA schedule archive for the town's earlier audit reports, owed by a live pass on the audit database when it will load. Until one of those is read, the honest article for 1902–2010 is this one: the boards sat, the town was governed, its water was run and its streets were kept — and the names of the men and women who sat on those boards are not in the open record, and are not invented here.

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Source: The First Boards, 1902–2010: An Open Question, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/government/first-boards-19022010-the-named-gap/