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Hotels & Motels
Hotels & Motels: the Road-Tavern Town That Lodges No One Now
Earl's tavern of 1836 is the first stand — tavern, polling place, and travellers' house in one. Its closing date is unreached. The directory keeper line runs Rudy Shirk (1880–81) to Henry Cordary — also printed "Cordray," the…
The banked hotel articles carry the keepers, the Forrest Hotel and the coaching-era course whole.
The second first-era house: Adam Shidler's Black Bear Tavern
Town of Lakeville 2011 Comprehensive Plan, history chapter (Geyer's narrative), read first-hand
The plan's history chapter, Jeanne Geyer's historic narrative as the plan prints it, states: "Adam Shidler owned the Black Bear Tavern, where businessmen and their wives often traveled from South Bend for dances and meetings" — a…
The keepers as a succession of trades, and the technology-first sweep
Banked this history lk-civ-hotels and Businesses lk-biz-hotels, tested as houses and for technology
The banked articles name three keepers; this article tests whether they are a succession of one house — they cannot be proved so — and sweeps the rosters for the hotel technology first the checklist describes, finding the rosters…
The desk's colour line, at the strength of the guides sampled
Green Book editions sampled; banked hotel course as the chronology
No Lakeville lodging appears in the travellers' guides sampled — and the chronology prints beside the fact, because the town's lodging trade had ended before the guides' era began, and the fact must not be made to carry more than…
The boundary inns at Potato Creek and North Liberty
The corridor's lodging did not end at Lakeville's line, and the two boundary houses the checklist names were not entered — the item is banked as a named gap, because a boundary treatment asserted without the houses' own records…
The corridor sweep: no motel court on Michigan Street
Polk classified lodging lists as reached and the November 2026 corridor census (banked this history lk-biz72-census-2026), swept
The motor age rebuilt the Michigan Road corridor through Lakeville as a gas corridor, not a lodging one: no motel, motor court or tourist cabin row is named for the town in any list reached, and the roadside firms the corridor…