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1865–2026 · THE BANKED FIRM RECORD, GATHERED INTO SPINE BEATS
The town's industry comes in three clusters, and the Story of New Carlisle section now carries each at firm size. The first and oldest is the mill-and-elevator cluster on the corridor: the feed trade that served the prairie's farms, standing in the 1916 directory as the Farmers Grain Co and standing today as Zahl's Elevator & Feed Mill at 301 East Michigan Street — with the dated succession between those two names expressly unreached, a shared trade not being a succession (the businesses addendum carries the chain test whole). The second cluster is the steel edge of 1990–91: I/N Tek and I/N Kote, the joint-venture finishing mills built at the town's edge as the district's modern anchor — their founding, peak form and fate carried at firm size in the businesses addendum, from the corporate record. The third cluster is the remaking itself: the data-center and battery ground east of town, the largest industrial building site in the town's history, carried whole in the Story of New Carlisle section's remaking article and tested as claims in the claims addendum. Between the clusters the Story of New Carlisle section's older beats stand as banked — the Institute and the water-works of 1879 — and the cluster sequence is the town's industrial biography in one view: grain, then steel, then data, each generation's anchor planted at the corridor's edge and each leaving the town's hundreds of residents to reckon with a plant scaled for a city.
Sources:
- Businesses and Architecture — the elevator line and the steel edge (I/N Tek 1990 / I/N Kote 1991); The Story of New Carlisle, "The remaking" — the data and battery ground.
- this history (this section) — the firm-granularity articles the beats point to.