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The unfound places, worked as honest blanks: Colburn and Midway Corners

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Two named points stand on the township map with coordinates and no earned course — worked here end-to-end, and left blank where the record is blank. The material, at its banked strength (lk-rem-communities): Colburn (41.548937° N, 86.26834° W) and Midway Corners (41.520881° N, 86.202227° W) are the township's listed unincorporated communities besides Lakeville — "named points with coordinates and no earned course yet." The worked pass, sources tried in order: the GNIS listing itself gives name and position and nothing else — no founding, no namesake, no feature history in any rendering reached; the 1875 Atlas tradition and the county histories as banked carry the township's settlements whole (Huggart, Lamb's, the village) and give neither point a settlement course; the directories as banked enumerate the village's firms and the township's farmers without raising either name to a place with a store, post office, school or church of record. What can honestly be said is the shape of the blank: both names behave like crossroads names — a surname point and a halfway point — but no carrier reached states a namesake for Colburn or a midway-between-what for Midway Corners, and neither reading is promoted here. The blank is left blank, with its settlers named: the GNIS records read entire, the 1875 Atlas plates at full resolution, and the county directory run — the same settler set as gap G-LK7-23C, which this article works but does not close.

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Source: The unfound places, worked as honest blanks: Colburn and Midway Corners, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/historical-mysteries/unfound-places-worked-as-honest-blanks-colburn-and-midway/