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c. 1862
No pre-1875 directory bench exists for Lakeville, and that absence is itself a finding. G. W. Hawes' Indiana State gazetteer and business directory, for 1862 and 1863 (p. 185) gives the town a bare header only — "A post village of St. Joseph county, 10 miles south from South Bend, and about 135 miles north from Indianapolis" — with no trades list, no physicians, and no postmaster named. The entry's value is negative and structural: about 1862 Lakeville stood below Hawes's listing threshold, so the 1875 Atlas rows and Chapman's 1880 census have no earlier directory bench against which to be checked — a boundary fact for the whole businesses file, and for the physicians' count in this section's C85 article. The carrier's own metadata dates the volume 1858 against the title's 1862–63; the discrepancy prints whole and is not resolved here.