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item 4 — milliners, dressmakers, and tailors at a dated count
Counted at the dated directory, the custom trades stand at three names across a century: Polk's 1916–17 roll for New Carlisle — forty-one traders, transcribed whole in the businesses leg — carries exactly one custom-trade line: Florence Gudmunsen, milliner. No dressmaker and no tailor stands in the roll. Behind the roll, Chapman's sketches hold the trade's one earlier practitioner: James McCollum, tailor for twenty years before he became Terre Coupee's grocer in 1840, postmaster for ten years, and a Justice of the Peace — a tailor whose trade belongs to the settlement generation and whose village shop stood at Terre Coupee, on this township's ground. The count, printed as a count: milliners, one (1916–17); dressmakers, none in the roll; tailors, one (the Chapman generation), none in 1916–17. Beyond hats and the general stores' notions counters, the township's women and men were dressed by mail order, by the county seat's stores thirteen miles east, and at home — which is why the trade's record here is a count of three names and not a street of shops.
Sources:
- Polk's gazetteer roll for New Carlisle, 1916–17, read whole (this build's Businesses, nc-biz-directory-1916): the milliner line; no dressmaker or tailor line.
- Chapman (1880), sketch of James McCollum (this build's Notable People, nc-ppl-longtail).