The distillers as a searched negative, with its date span printed

1852–2011 · OSCEOLA AND PENN TOWNSHIP — SEARCHED NEGATIVE

Date span searched: 1852–2011 — from the county's first brewery year to the modern era's first-documented distillery year in the floor pattern — printed on the negative, as the row requires; a negative without its span fails the leg, and this one carries its span. Classes distinguished, as the row requires. Distillers (makers): no distillery, still (outside the dry-years policing test, which is Crime & Public Safety's 1918–1933 span and found none seated here), rectifier or blending house seated in Osceola or Penn Township was found in the gazetteer and directory censuses (1884–85, 1916–17 and the directory runs the record carry), the county histories, or the federal/state permit and revenue records as reached on the open web, at any point in 1852–2011. Wholesale houses: the one wholesale-liquor name in the county record at boundary size is Edward Muessel's 1895 wholesale liquor business in South Bend — a wholesale house, not a rectifier, and not on this ground. Retail is not distilling: the town's taverns and package trade, where directories show them, are retail and are not counted as a distilling presence. Verdict: across 1852–2011, on this ground, the distilling classes are a searched negative — no maker, no rectifier, no wholesale house — and the first modern maker anywhere in the county is dated 2011 at art-58-11.

Sources: Searches stated in the article: Hawes' and later gazetteer/directory censuses as carried in banked Businesses; Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907); Indiana ATC / TTB permit listings as reached; banked Crime & Public Safety still search (1918–1933).