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What the record establishes, and what it does not
One 1880 account carries the township's whole reached archaeological record, and it is printed at that size. Chapman, Union chapter: "On sections 6 and 8 have been found a great many Indian relics. Among other curiosities discovered by the removal of the surface of the earth are round holes dug in the ground and nicely walled up with stones in the shape of a common kettle. Some of them have been found to be four or five feet in depth. For what purpose they had been made the people of the neighborhood are unable to surmise. A great many arrowheads, tomahawks and other things of like nature have been found here and in other parts of the township, thus bringing to our minds that but a short time ago another race of people inhabited this region." That is the whole of it at this strength: surface finds township-wide, and stone-walled pit features of unknown purpose on sections 6 and 8 — in the township's north, not on the townsite — as reported by an 1880 county history that assigns them to no named nation and no date, as this build does not either. What the record does not establish is stated as plainly: no mound, earthwork, enclosure, cemetery or village site in Union Township is named in Chapman, in Howard's Union and Lakeville sections, or in any other carrier reached, and no professional survey or SHAARD site record was reached for this ground. The State's archaeological database and the survey notes are the settlers named in the note. No mound-builder attribution is printed: the period phrase about "the pathway of the Mound Builder" belongs to Howard's passage on the county's northern portage and is not imported to this township.