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Directory and plat record, tested for mill and factory housing
No company on this ground ever built housing for its workforce — the negative is stated in the checklist's own allowed form. The plat record shows a proprietors' town — additions platted by named men, Henderson, Hupp, Ulery and Rush among them — selling lots to whoever bought; no mill row, no company street, no factory tenements appear in the atlas, the directories, or the town histories reached. The mills' hands were the township's farm households, housed on their own farms; the Slough brothers' 240 acres is the type — the works and the house on the same holding. The modern chapter agrees: Hoosier Racing Tire built a headquarters and distribution centre and no housing; its workforce commutes in a county of owner-occupied houses, and Newton Park's neighbourhoods are a town's, not a company's. The county's paternalist housing experiments, where they exist, are the great factories' stories in the northern cities. This build therefore prints the housing article as a clean negative: workforce housing, none built, none needed at the works' scale, and no trace of the form on the plat. True size.