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The works can be placed, at the strength the record carries, beside the crossing that made the town: the society's exhibit, drawn from the Independent, fixes the Central Cut Glass factory in relation to the town's railroad plant with three independent touches. The citizens' paper of 8 April 1910 headlines the bargain "Crossing and Spur to be Built at Once" — the works was to be served by its own spur at the crossing. At the cornerstone laying on 30 April 1910, the photographer Will Keck took the crowd's picture sitting on "one of the interlocking towers near by" — the towers of the Walkerton diamonds, the ground the Trains leg documents at the junction of the town's railroads. And on the night of 19 February 1919 the fire that destroyed the works "had been spotted from the railway tower at about one o'clock" — the tower still stood close enough to be the works' watchman. The building itself is dimensioned in the same account: two stories, 30 by 200 feet, 12,000 square feet, built of fireproof cement blocks, with a 50-foot smokestack — a long, low factory block standing by the diamonds, gutted in the 1919 fire with "only a part of the bare walls being left," and not rebuilt as a glass works. That is the site as a place: at the crossing, by the interlocking tower, on its own spur. The signature objects' forwarding address, by contrast, is settled whole, and it is a location fact: the works' surviving glass lives where this build has always found it — in the Walkerton Area Historical Society's collection at the Walkerton Heritage Museum, the society's third home on Roosevelt Road, catalogued piece by piece as the featured Central Cut Glass / Walkerton Cut Glass collection of the Walkerton Digital Library. The factory is gone from its ground; its product never left town — it is home, in the town's museum, and no part of the signature collection is recorded as held by any other institution.
Sources: Walkerton Area Historical Society, "The Story of Walkerton's Central Cut Glass Company (Factory No. 2)," Walkerton Digital Library exhibit, read first-hand November 2026 (the spur headline of April 8, 1910; Keck on the interlocking tower, April 30, 1910; the building's dimensions and fabric; the fire spotted from the railway tower; the gutted walls). Businesses and Arts & Culture legs of this build (the works' course, 1910–1919; the collection as the Digital Library's featured holding, kept with the Heritage Museum). Transportation leg of this build (the diamonds and the interlocking tower, KN Tower). Settlers named for the parcel: the Sanborn sheets for Walkerton via the Library of Congress and Indiana University Sanborn lists; the county parcel record.