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1866 – c. late 1880s and after
The town's first outward-looking makers sold into a market no carrier reached measures. The wagon works — Cole Brothers' planing mill of 1866, reincorporated in 1873 as the North Liberty Manufacturing Company, whose whole course is dug in the businesses leg — manufactured wagons and buggies into the twentieth century, and its scale is attested from the receiving end: a Harbaugh family genealogy carried on the Indiana Genealogical Society's blog records that George Henry Harbaugh "continued working as a wagon maker, though by 1873 he faced fierce competition when the North Liberty Manufacturing Company opened a large wagon making plant" in Liberty Township. The works was big enough to press the township's own wagon makers. Its market reach — county, state, or farther — is not stated in any carrier reached: no company advertising or trade-press item was found, and this section prints the reach as unknown, not as local by default and not as wide by inference. Its settler is the newspaper advertising record and the wagon and carriage trade press. The mills' flour trade stands at the same strength: the Potato Creek gristmill of 1837, Daniel R. McKenzie's control from 1852, the McKenzie & Bowen flour mill of the gazetteers — and no flour-market destination named in any carrier reached. One figure prints here precisely so it is never mistaken for an export: dry-goods merchant Norman S. Miller's invoices totalled $9,000 in 1880. That is goods bought in.