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Gaps, boundaries, and what remains

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NAMED GAPS GAP-W6-11 – GAP-W6-18 · THE TOWNSHIP TODAY

What remains. The township today is a farmed township around a small town: the county frame's direction — fewer farms, more acres in farms, a larger average size, 2017 to 2022 — is the only measured statement the official record makes about its present, and the specialty ground's second century is inside it. The state park on the township's western side and the Land file's channel works are the Land and Parks ground, at pointer size here by design.

GAP-W6-11 — drainage districts. No ditch or drainage district is named for Lincoln Township in the sources read. Settler: the county drainage board / surveyor's records; the Land file's Kankakee channel record (W-5).

GAP-W6-12 — onion acreage. The 1916 buyers and storage are directory-fixed; the township's onion acreage and the trade's end are not. Settler: the Census of Agriculture's county onion acreage by census year; the Independent's farm columns.

GAP-W6-13 — mint.Settler, if any evidence exists: the manuscript agricultural schedules and the Independent's farm columns; the regional record stands in Starke County and Penn Township, each its own build's.

GAP-W6-14 — orchards, small fruit, nurseries. None named for the township in the record read — no orchard, berry ground, nursery or greenhouse stands in Chapman, Howard or the canvasses. Settler: the county horticultural reports; the Independent.

GAP-W6-15 — the creamery absence. No creamery, cream station or butter factory is named for Walkerton in any source read whole. Settler: the state dairy and food department reports; the Independent.

GAP-W6-16 — the township's tractor dates. No first tractor or threshing-ring date for Lincoln Township was found. Settler: the Independent's farm columns; the county extension annual reports.

GAP-W6-17 — the Grange. No lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry is named for the township in the record read. Settler: the Indiana State Grange proceedings; the Independent.

GAP-W6-18 — the fair share. Lincoln Township's exhibitors, premiums and 4-H at the St. Joseph County fair are unrecovered; the fair institution itself is South Bend's. Settler: the fair premium lists (South Bend build's sources) and the Tribune's fair reporting.

Boundaries. The drainage works whole, the Kankakee channel and Potato Creek's ground are the Land family's (W-5) and stand here at pointer size. Jerry R. Woodward's peppermint farm is Penn Township ground and Mishawaka's/South Bend's to carry; it is printed here only as the boundary that keeps mint honest. The Cripe saw-mill is a business record and stands in the Businesses file; the father's 1,000-acre purchase is printed here as the farm fact it is. Starke County's mint fame is Starke County's.

Images. None for this section. No image was located in the record used whose rights basis the record itself states.

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Source: Gaps, boundaries, and what remains, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/farms-agriculture/gaps-boundaries-and-what-remains/