The Roster, and the Census That Is Still a Gap

Row 6 — the town's society roster built from what stands, with the gazetteer census limb banked as a named gap, as of November 2026

The roster, from what stands: Built only from bodies the build can already prove, the town's roster of downtown social and lodge life runs: Terre Coupee Lodge No. 204, F. & A.M., organized 1856 over a Michigan Street store — the lodge as downtown institution, meeting above the commerce it was drawn from; Olive Branch Lodge No. 149 of the Good Templars, organized 1875 and 143 strong by August 1880, "second in size in the State"; the parish societies at Terre Coupee — the Polish National Alliance council (federal ruling 1940) and the St. Stanislaus Altar & Rosary Society (1946) — as the township's society life outside the town line; the Woman's Club, standing in the build as the host of the banquet at which Woolman's reminiscence was read, and worked in this section's women's-clubs article; and, by pointer only, the American Legion post of 1946, told whole in the Wars file. That is the roster at proof strength — five seats across ninety years — and no athletic club, no downtown social club and no commercial club stands proved beside them.

The fuller roster — the census of the town's societies as the gazetteers and directories of the day printed them, Howard's 1907 history and the period society listings — stands as GAP-NC5-CIV-3 in the build, and this row banks that limb as a named gap inside a mixed close rather than filling it. The whole-nineteenth-century lodge census is that gap's settler: until the gazetteer listings are pulled and read, the roster above is a floor, not a census — the proved bodies, in their proved order — and any lodge that lived and died between Chapman's telling and the federal register's beginning will be found there, or nowhere.

Sources:

1. Banked build facts: Terre Coupee Lodge No. 204 (organized 24 July 1856 over T. L. Borden's store, per Chapman); Olive Branch Lodge No. 149 of the Good Templars (organized 4 January 1875; 143 members, August 1880, "second in size in the State," per the crime file's dry-years article); the Woman's Club's banquet at which Woolman's reminiscence was read (spine file); American Legion Post 297 told in the Wars file.
2. IRS exempt-organizations register for New Carlisle, IN 46552 (read whole November 2026; re-read 11 November 2026): POLISH NATIONAL ALLIANCE (08/1940) and ST STANISLAUS KOSTKA ALTAR & ROSARY SOCIETY (03/1946) lines.
3. Build gap register: GAP-NC5-CIV-3 — the Howard (1907) and gazetteer society listings for the town; the whole-19th-century lodge census stands as that gap's settler.