Walkerton Business and Industry History

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Walkerton Business and Industry History

Firms, owners, founders, inventions, banks and fortunes.

Business & Industry

§ 03Walkerton Business HistoryWalkerton was a railroad town before it was anything else: a store raised in a thicket in 1854, two railroads crossing at West Troy, and by 1880 a grain trade that took in some 200,000 bushels of wheat in a single…18 entry pages § 65More Walkerton BusinessesWhat stands meanwhile is the directory stratum itself — the professionals named in Businesses at their directory dates — pointed to at its strength.4 entry pages § 66Walkerton Business Owners: A Historical DirectoryOver the owners roster as banked, the women owners stand by name — Maggie B. Wolfe, Mrs J. F. Endly, Sarah L. Smith, and Mrs Carrie Hudson — four women holding businesses in their own names in the directory record of a…§ 58Walkerton Founders and Chief ExecutivesGrider's line runs from the general-store trade (Stephens & Grider, 1892; Grider sole by 1902 — the fractions article below) to the presidency of the State Bank of Walkerton, a course the banks article in Businesses…5 entry pages § 23Walkerton and the Industrial RevolutionThe Industrial Revolution6 entry pages § 40Walkerton Inventors, Inventions and BreakthroughsInventors7 entry pages § 73Walkerton TechnologyTechnology — First Signals, Other Cities' Names, and the Town's Own Works6 entry pages § 70Walkerton and the Dot-Com EraDot-Com Winners — the Tests, and the Kind of Internet Town This Was8 entry pages § 50Walkerton Farms and AgricultureLincoln Township was marsh before it was farmland: a considerable portion of it was still "marshy and wet" in 1880, "fast being reclaimed by draining," and the farm course below is the record of that reclamation worked…14 entry pages § 75Tractors in WalkertonTractors — the Maker Test, the Threshing Rings, and the Dealer Row That Isn't6 entry pages § 51What Walkerton Sold to the World: A History of Its ExportsThe checklist's most romantic item — the local product taken abroad and tried by a foreign army, as one city's bayonets were tried in the Boer War — was tested against this town's manufactures, and nothing of the kind…5 entry pages § 10Wealth in WalkertonFortunes, the Published-Figure Rule, and the Family That Gives5 entry pages § 71Lottery and Crypto in WalkertonLottery & Crypto — the Empty Roll, the Licensed Game, and the Honest Thinness7 entry pages

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Source: Walkerton Business and Industry History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/topics/business-industry/

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