Lakeville Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place

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Lakeville Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place

The ground before the town, the peoples of the upland, the streams, and the whole story of Lakeville.

Origins

§ 22Lakeville Before the Town: The Ground Before the PlacePass 1 laid this ground's frame — the survey grid, the cession lines, the plotted taking. this section goes under it: the town stands on stacked glacial drift laid by more than one ice lobe, on a clay till plain that…14 entry pages § 23The Land at LakevilleBefore it was a townsite, the ground Lakeville stands on was Potawatomi country in the St. Joseph valley, and its passage to the United States was by treaty. Which treaty is a question this build answers from the…21 entry pages § 24The Native Nations of LakevilleThe town stands on the Michigan Road corridor in the county's southern tier, in the southern drainage of the St. Joseph valley — country the record of the treaty era assigns to the Potawatomi, whose name for themselves…11 entry pages § 74The Rivers and Streams of LakevilleThe banked rivers article (this history, lk-rem-rivers) carries the Yellow River's course, its name conflict, and this township's drainage share whole. What it never ran is the working test set the checklist demands…7 entry pages § 01The Story of LakevilleLakeville is an incorporated town in Union Township, in the south of St. Joseph County, Indiana, standing on either side of the Michigan Road — its Michigan Street — about eleven miles south of South Bend, on ground the…13 entry pages

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Source: Lakeville Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/topics/origins/

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