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items 1, 2, 3, and 4 — the flagship, the company, the dry close, the longest-lived house
The first-brewer question was put to the ground whole and returns empty: Chapman and Howard, the gazetteer runs, and the directory record — including the 1916–17 Polk roll read whole in this build — name no brewer and no brewery for this town or township at any date; there are no rival firsts to weigh because there is no first. The flagship item falls with it: no brewing family, no brand, and no brewery ground stands in the Sanborn or directory record. The company item falls too: no brewery incorporation, no dated brewhouse, and no dry close exists to date — Prohibition enters this town's record only as the temperance lodge's era, never as a plant's closing date, because there was no plant to close. And the longest-lived item resolves at its true size with a fact the leg is glad to print straight: the longest-lived drink-adjacent house in this record is the temperance lodge — Olive Branch Lodge No. 149 of the Good Templars, organised 4 January 1875 and 143 strong by August 1880 — carried whole in the fraternal addendum of this run, where this section's temperance cross-reference now lands. Four items, one finding: the town that organised against drink, at scale, and never made it.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880) and Howard, the gazetteer runs, and Polk's 1916–17 roll read whole (this build's Businesses) — no brewing line at any date.
- This build's Crime (nc-crime-dry: the Good Templars course whole) and this run's this history.