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A chronology
The present town was made in ten years, and most of the making is younger than the decade's midpoint. The late 2010s laid the ground in quiet: the county's Indiana Enterprise Center took shape on the farmland east of town — the ground the 2020 documentary Prime Farmland examined — and a 2018 county study first examined returning a South Shore station to New Carlisle. In 2020 the town and Olive Township created the fire territory, ending the all-volunteer age, and in December Cleveland-Cliffs took the I/N Tek and I/N Kote works entire. In 2022 the fire territory grew to Hudson Township. In April 2023 the GM–Samsung battery venture was announced for the township's ground. In 2024 the decade turned: Amazon announced Project Rainier in April at $11 billion; the battery venture was finalized in August; Honeysuckle Solar entered service; and the South Shore's Double Track rebuilding was completed in May. In 2025 the argument arrived: the Redevelopment Commission backed the station's Site B in September and took its parcels in November; the third data center was rejected 7–2 after the hearing of 9–10 December; and Samsung signed its energy-storage contract the same week. In 2026 the revisions came: the Monon Corridor opened on 31 March, giving the South Shore its second line; the battery plant paused in May and changed owners and purpose in August; AWS's invested total passed $13.8 billion by July; the council began the data-center ban process on 22 September; and on 3 November the town voted — for council seats whose winners this record does not yet hold, and on a county government that changes hands, and flips, on 1 January 2027. A town of 1,891 spent the decade becoming the address of projects priced in the tens of billions; the next update window of this build will read the decade's second half very differently from its first.
Principal sources: this build's spine (the remaking) and Government; the dated record assembled in the economy article above.