Lakeville Black History

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Lakeville Black History

Black history at Lakeville and the Underground Railroad years.

Black History

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The ground: Section 29, northwest Union Township
Samuel Huggart: the 1834 purchase
Andrew Huggart: the brother who farmed it
Two obituaries, eleven days apart — and the "first colored man" line
The settlement whole: four surnames, a peak, a dispersal
The law over the settlement, at anchor size
Porter-Rea Cemetery: the burying ground
The names as the record spells them
Black History: What the Record Does Not Carry
Who wrote it: Karst's study, its exact citation, and the community's own voice
The dispersal, whole: 1885–1900, the sales, the sons, and the South Bend door
The Klan-era test: no Union Township item in any carrier reached
The institutions that never stood
Exclusion, measured at what the record can measure
Redlining: no covenant, no survey, no developer — a named gap
The counter-move, dated: buying land under a constitution that forbade coming
The professional record: no Black physician, nurse or hospital worker named
Four limbs, each at its own strength: firsts, the Black press, renewal, reparations
The 1831 Bond Law — the Frame Samuel Huggart Bought Under
Article XIII (1851) — Text, Statewide Vote, and the County Count That Does Not Survive
Colonization — the Offer, the Machinery, and the County's Answer
The Disabilities at Settlement Size, and the Repeal Course Whole
The County's Documented Case — Powell
Claim 1 — Palmer's Olive Branch Sawmill: Documented Purchase, Claimed Rescue
Claims 2–4 — the Settlement, the Churches, the Road: Verdicts
Seized again in the courtroom: the Powell case after the first discharge
The nine defendants, named whole — and the abolitionist press of the county
The penalty suit and the Supreme Court: Norris v. Crocker, 1851

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Source: Lakeville Black History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/topics/black-history/

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