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The Long Narrowing: A Removals Ledger

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Removals only, dated, one line at a time.

19 February 1919 — the Central Cut Glass works burns; 65 jobs; not rebuilt as a glass works.

Undated — the pickle works end: Atwood Brothers, established 1903, and the Heinz salting station of the 1916 canvass both leave the record after 1916; no closing date is carried in any source reached.

December 1963 — Studebaker ends automobile production at South Bend; the marque Williams Supply Co. of 408 Michigan Street had sold since 1951 ends with it; the house's own closing is not dated in the record reached.

1979 — Modern Door is acquired by the Plyco Corporation of Elkhart, Wisconsin; ownership of the Virginia Street door works leaves the town, production continuing under the new house.

28 September 2022 — Masonite gives WARN notice: of 220 employed at the Muskin Drive door plant, 74 to 84 positions permanently eliminated, the affected employees retained through 27 November 2022.

21 July 2026 — Owens Corning gives WARN notice of a permanent plant closing at 105 Industrial Park Drive: about 130 employees, separations running 19 September to 2 October 2026, all laid off by 29 October 2026 — the ledger's largest single line, and the first total closing of a major works in the town's record since the glass fire of 1919.

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Source: The Long Narrowing: A Removals Ledger, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/industrial-revolution/long-narrowing-a-removals-ledger/