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1837 – 1893 – present
Water power ends with the mills, about the late 1880s, and the next power age arrives by rail. The banked businesses record closes the creek mills at about the late 1880s. The Wabash's line passed through the town in 1893 and the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa — the Three I — followed in 1894 (Railroads, banked); from those years the town's freight life, in the banked trains record, is milk cans on a station platform, a grain elevator under managed operation by 1943, the North Liberty Lumber & Coal Company, and the Schlosser Brothers creamery of 1895 — a steam-and-coal economy fed by two railroads, though no carrier reached names a steam plant, a boiler or a generating station in the town itself. Electric current's arrival in North Liberty — its date, its first supplier and its first industrial user — was not found in any carrier reached and stands as a named gap, its settlers the town board minutes and the Indiana utility commission's early service records.