. Our county; its history and early settlement by townships. GEO. K. MANSFIELD,Clerk Delaware County Circuit Court. CHAS. GOUGH,County Surveyor. UNION TOWNSHIP. 77 lumber, for which there began to be a great demand. Short-ly after the erection of this mill, the firm sold out to Charlesand Gerge Carter, and soon after this transaction the mill wasdestroyed by fire. The Carter Brothers rebuilt their mill atonce on the same site and operated it successfully for a num-ber of years, in fact until one of the firm (George) died,when his brother Charles purchased his deceased brothers in-terest, exten
. Our county; its history and early settlement by townships. GEO. K. MANSFIELD,Clerk Delaware County Circuit Court. CHAS. GOUGH,County Surveyor. UNION TOWNSHIP. 77 lumber, for which there began to be a great demand. Short-ly after the erection of this mill, the firm sold out to Charlesand Gerge Carter, and soon after this transaction the mill wasdestroyed by fire. The Carter Brothers rebuilt their mill atonce on the same site and operated it successfully for a num-ber of years, in fact until one of the firm (George) died,when his brother Charles purchased his deceased brothers in-terest, extended the race some distance farther west, erecteda new saw-mill, and afterwards a four-story flouring mill is located in the southern part of Eaton, and isknown as the Carter mill, a monument to the enterprise andindustry of one of Unions oldest citizens. About 1845 DavidStudebaker erected a saw-mill on the west half of the south-east quarter of section 22, just below the point where the Stu-debaker pike crosses the Mississinnewa river. By turns th
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