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1866 – 1873 and after
One works succeeded another on the town's early industrial ground. The banked spine carries the succession in three dated steps: the Cole Brothers' planing mill, built 1866; burned 1871; and reincorporated in 1873 as the North Liberty Manufacturing Company, making wagons and buggies. That is ground succession at this town's size — planing mill to vehicle works, fire as the hinge — and it is also the town's intermediate-goods trade in embryo: a wagon works sells the means by which farms and freighters move everything else. No output count, workforce count or closing date for the company was found in the carriers reached; the item stands at banked strength, and its settlers are the Indiana secretary of state's incorporation records and the 1880 census of manufactures schedule for Liberty Township, neither pulled here.