New Carlisle Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place

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New Carlisle Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place

The ground before the town, the peoples of the upland, the streams, and the whole story of New Carlisle.

Origins

§ 22New Carlisle Before the Town: The Ground Before the PlaceThe land leg opened at the survey frame, and the checklist's deeper opening — the feature that made the site, the ice that made the ground, the water that changed its mind — stood unworked. This addendum works it: the…3 entry pages § 23The Land at New CarlisleThe ground New Carlisle stands on was Potawatomi ground within living memory of the town's founding: the tribal cession that took it was signed nine years before the plat, the quarter-section the town was platted on was…12 entry pages § 24The Native Nations of New CarlisleThe people of this ground call themselves Bodwéwadmi — the Potawatomi. The Miami, the Myaamia, are tested against this ground below and do not stand on it in the record. New Carlisle's Indigenous history is unusual in…7 entry pages § 70The Rivers and Streams of New CarlisleTwo great remainders close in this section: the river the recreation file pointed at a Land leg that carried only its marsh edge — here dug whole, source to mouth, with its names, its working test, and its flood want…3 entry pages § 01The Story of New CarlisleNew Carlisle is an incorporated town in Olive Township, in the northwest of St. Joseph County, Indiana, standing on a hill at the southeastern extremity of Terre Coupee prairie where one street has carried, in…14 entry pages

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Source: New Carlisle Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/topics/origins/

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