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Fred Ullery's grocery — the town's first named firm

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Town Code §11.01, as carried in Pass R-1

The first Roseland business the record names is a grocery, and it is named because the town was voted into being inside it. The incorporation election of 1915 was held at Fred Ullery's grocery store — the frame fact stands in the government file from the town code's own history section. Beyond that the record reached gives the firm nothing: no dates of trade, no address on the corridor, no successor. The surname is the township's own — Stephen Ulery's carding mill stood on the creek in the settler generation, and an Ullery Street still carries the name in the town — but no carrier read ties Fred Ullery's store to that line or to that street, and none is invented here. The grocery's course stands as a named gap in the business-gaps file; its settlers are the 1910 and 1920 census occupation schedules for the townsite ground and the directory benches the gaps file names.

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Source: Fred Ullery's grocery — the town's first named firm, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/roseland/business/fred-ullery-s-grocery-the-town-s-first-named/