Ground succession: the elevator ground and the mill ground, as far as the open record goes

Row #4 · MIXED — the trade line is dug; the site succession is a named gap

One trade, one address, a century apart — and the record reached still does not carry the succession between them, so none is printed. What the open record does hold is a three-point line. In 1880 the grain function stands in a merchant's hands, not a company's: George H. Service buys and ships from his combined merchant-bank-grain house on Michigan Street. In 1916–17 Polk's canvass names the function corporately — Farmers Grain Co., grain — and names milling separately, the New Carlisle Milling Co. In 2026 the town association's roll names Zahl's Elevator & Feed Mill at 301 East Michigan Street, the town's elevator address, with Mary Anne Millar carried against the name in the owners roster. The address continuity is itself a documented fact of the modern roll, and it is also a film fact: the Region of Three Oaks Museum's Prancer location record places Zahl's Elevator and Feed Mill at 301 East Michigan as a location of the 1989 film, which fixes the elevator standing at that address by the late 1980s at location-record strength. Between the points, the directory run reached adds texture but not succession: Polk's classified lists for 1882–83 and 1884–85, searched, return New Carlisle names under their trades (hardware among them) without yielding a dated elevator or mill occupancy chain for this ground, and the 1884–85 gazetteer's New Carlisle entry stands in this build's sources file as a population boast ("an enterprising village of 1,000 inhabitants") against the census's 530 and 607 — a salesman's figure, not a site record. The mill ground is thinner still: Miller's saw-mill stood on section 4 of the township in 1880 — township ground, not a town lot — and no source reached ties the New Carlisle Milling Co. of 1916 to that section, to Miller, or to any named parcel; the two mills are two record points, not a succession. The settler for both grounds exists and is named in this build's sources file: the Sanborn fire insurance editions for New Carlisle — 1886, 1893, 1899, 1907, 1929 — held on microfilm at the Indiana State Library, which plot the elevator and mill footprints edition by edition. Those sheets are not readable from a text seat. Both succession limbs therefore close inside this row as NAMED GAP — settler the Sanborn run read on film at the Indiana State Library, seconded by the New Carlisle Gazette's advertising record — and the banked discipline holds unbroken: a shared trade is not a succession.

Sources:

1. Chapman (1880) and Polk (1916–17), as banked: Service's grain house (1880); Farmers Grain Co. and New Carlisle Milling Co. (1916).
2. NCBCA directory (2026), read whole: Zahl's Elevator & Feed Mill, 301 E. Michigan St.; this build's owners roster: Mary Anne Millar at Zahl's.
4. Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer, 1882–83 and 1884–85, classified-list parts (LDSGenealogy transcriptions), searched for New Carlisle trade names: texture returned, no occupancy chain.