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The Laminated Census: Who Erased Hollow Branch Lane in 1921?
The Laminated Census: Who Erased Hollow Branch Lane in 1921?
A laminated Indiana State Census form from 1921 listing a twelve-person Black household at 14 Hollow Branch Lane was nailed to a telephone pole in Dunmore in 1983-an address that appears on no plat, atlas, or municipal record for Vance County. Who took the trouble to preserve that paper in archival-grade plastic, drive 32 miles, and pin it where only a paperboy would find it?
In this episode, we follow the paper trail and the sparse archival traces left behind to reconstruct what the document says and what local records quietly…
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