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Date not in any reached carrier — named gap
The draining of the millpond is the hinge event of the town's mill era, and its own date is in no reached carrier. The Story of North Liberty section file carries the millpond and the mills whole; this article records the event-level detail the reached record adds (the South Bend Tribune's "Vanishing breed," 2003): Daniel R. McKenzie obtained control of the North Liberty mills in 1852; he partnered with Henry Bowen (arrived 1868) in 1874; the mills switched to steam power by the mid-1880s; and the gristmill and sawmill both closed within a few years after the millpond was drained. The draining's date stands as a named gap; its settlers are Frederick Karst's Potato Creek: From Pioneer Mill Stream to Gentle Lake (1980), Saltzgaber (1978) if located, and the town paper's film run.