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1849–1930s · the water step absent; the current step at county strength, residue named
The dated sequence on this ground has two steps, not three, because the first step of the floor's ladder never existed here. Step one, water: absent — the preceding article measures it, and no transition out of waterpower can be dated for a township that never used it. Step two, steam: dated 1849, Earl and Gilmore's steam saw mill, and still the mills' stated power at the 1889 directory point; steam is this ground's first industrial power, not its second. Step three, current: electricity reached Indiana's farm country by co-operative — after the federal Rural Electrification Act of 1935, Hoosier farmers organised rural electric membership corporations, and the tested file carries the arrival of the Marshall County REMC at county strength only, expressly not at township strength. The geography explains the carrier: Lakeville sits in St. What is dated here, then: steam, 1849; the co-operative era, from the later 1930s, at county strength. The residue is named and current: the exact year current first reached Union Township farms, and the township's service-boundary history, stand in the Marshall County REMC's own record, the settler the audit named. This item closes mixed on that residue.