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Tested, November 2026
Collecting before there was a museum, in North Liberty, never reached the museum. No founding historical society for the town or for Liberty Township was found in any carrier reached — no society of 1867 or refounding of 1895 on the floor's pattern, no charter with a museum written into it. The town's memory institutions are of other kinds: the North Liberty branch library at 105 East Market Street, whose local-history holdings belong to the banked libraries section; the two state historical markers on township ground (Huggart Settlement, 71.1998.1; Porter (Rea) Cemetery, 71.2003.1); and the Register nominations themselves, which function as the town's published catalogue of its significant objects — the buildings. The oldest-possession item prints accordingly: the oldest documented objects interpreted for the public on this ground are not in a case in town but in the park — the artifacts uncovered in the Schrader Springhouse reconstruction, displayed at the springhouse and the nature center on the DNR's event record. The town-museum item stands as a named gap only in the weakest sense: if a society collection exists in a church, school or Legion hall, no carrier reached shows it, and the settler is the town newspaper's run and the Legion Post 365's own records.