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1833 – present, at the histories' strength
The town's founding culture, as both county histories describe it, was Pennsylvania German. That stock named the township's first school-house site by the Dunkard church — the German Baptist Brethren ground half a mile south of the village, near which the log school of 1838 stood — and the township's settler names in Howard's list run Rupel, Cripe, Dukeman, Waldsmith, Antrim and Loring. The churches that carried this culture whole are the religion file's subject and are pointed to, not re-dug. What this section registers is the thinness of the ethnic record beyond that frame: no German-language press, feast, society hall, or festival in North Liberty is named in any carrier reached, and no other enclave — Polish, Belgian, Italian, or other — is documented for this town at all. Latino culture in the present town is carried by no source reached. Each absence banks as a named gap in the pass note, not as a finding that nothing was lived.