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1880 – 2015
The ladder has three rungs, and the spaces between them are part of the record. Rung one, 1880: Chapman's count, banked above — one grist-mill, one planing-mill and manufacturing establishment, no hands counted. Rung two, 1916–17: R. L. Rung three, 2015: the Town of North Liberty Comprehensive Plan (DLZ Indiana, final January 2015, read first-hand) reports manufacturing as the main industry of employed town residents, at 27.6 percent in its labor-force table, and names Sapa North Liberty, the aluminum extrusion manufacturer near Town Hall on South Main Street, as employing a large number of individuals. No census-of-manufactures series for the town — no dated run of works, hands and product value between 1880 and 2015 — was found in the carriers reached. That missing ladder is a named gap; its settlers are the federal censuses of manufactures, 1890–1940, at Liberty Township and place level, and the Indiana manufacturers' directories.