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1837 – c. late 1880s
The power here was a creek, and no carrier reached measures its fall.Potato Creek is a tributary of the Kankakee River; at the park three miles east its bordering marsh is remembered in the Indiana DNR's park brochure as once part of one of North America's largest wetlands. That is the whole of the measured power record reached: no fall in feet and inches, no race, no dam dimensions, and no millpond acreage for the town mills was found in Chapman (1880), Howard (1907) as banked, or any carrier read for this section. The absence is printed as a gap, not filled by analogy to the St. Joseph River towns. Its settlers are the mill references in the county histories at page-image strength and any Liberty Township mill-dam record in the St. Joseph County commissioners' minutes.