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Before North Liberty

No village on this ground — the test, and what stands near it

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Chapman's Liberty chapter, re-read whole from the printed text, places no village, camp, or town site in the township; the only Native presence stated is the hunting and travel use above. The nearest named villages in the reached record, for scale — all cross-pointers, none on this ground: La-vache-qui-pisse and Macousin, on the St. Joseph in the county's north; Pokagon's villages at Bertrand and on Silver Creek, Michigan, north of the state line; Menominee's village at Twin Lakes, Marshall County; and Benack's village on the Tippecanoe River, Marshall County, 1834–1848 — a new near-village for this build, carried in the next article. The archaeology statement prints at the strength reached: no archaeological site in Liberty Township was reached in any carrier read in any pass; the regional record (Fort St. Joseph at Niles, the valley settlement-pattern literature, Moccasin Bluff) is real but is not this ground, and Potato Creek State Park's public archaeology programming is programming, not a site record. Archaeology for this township is an unsearched record class, not a negative one (gap G-BC-1; settler: the Indiana DHPA SHAARD record, direct check).

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Source: No village on this ground — the test, and what stands near it, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/before-north-liberty/no-village-on-this-ground-the-test-and-what/