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Union Township's industrial course never left agriculture's orbit. Four moves, each at its owning file's pointer: (1) the artisan/mill economy — by 1880 a saw-mill and a grist-mill among the village's handful of shops, mechanised industry serving farms on drained ground; (2) the railroad as the industrial event — the Vandalia's arrival in 1883 ("after the building of the Vandalia railroad its prosperity was assured" — Howard) and the Wabash after it, the transport layer later de-industrialised by abandonment, not by factory closure (the trains file owns it); (3) agricultural mechanisation and agro-industry — the farms file's machine record and the Producers Union Dairy and the grain elevator in the business pages, at those files' strengths; (4) the late chapter — Hoosier Racing Tire, a precision-manufacturing headquarters seated here with production in Plymouth (LK-4's file). The test the leg adds: was there ever a factory-city moment to de-industrialise from? No — at banked strength the town never held an anchor-plant manufacturing employer; its "industrial revolution" is the mechanisation of a farm township plus two railroads plus one modern specialty firm, printed as its thesis with the record under it.