The carding mill on the creek — Stephen Ulery

Chapman (1880), p. 677; Howard (1907) I, pp. 285, 288

The mill stream carried a second small industry, and a settler's name. Above the flouring mill, the same creek worked carding machinery from an early day. Chapman: "at one time in the history of the township, S. Ulery ran a carding-machine." Howard's text: "Further up the little stream Stephen Ulery at one time ran a carding machine." The Lyon paper fixes the spot: "Near where the creek crosses the Niles road north of Notre Dame, Stephen Ullery, over half a century ago, ran a little carding mill, but all traces of this have disappeared" — and the same paper calls the stream itself the "Ullery creek, upon which the old mill stood." Howard's own text calls the stream Sheffield creek. The two names for the one stream stand in the same volume unmerged, and the conflict is registered in the pass note (C10): Sheffield Creek is the name the frame pass banked from Howard's text; Ullery creek is the name the mill paper gives it, for the carding mill on its upper course. The names are not the same fact stated twice — this creek is the township's southwestern drainage toward the Harris Township marshes, and it is not Juday Creek, the Granger-side stream east of the town, with which it is never merged. The carding mill's crossing — the creek at the Niles road, north of Notre Dame — is the one point where either county history fixes the old road's course in the township's southern ground: the road the town would later line ran past Stephen Ulery's mill.