A Post Office Since 1850
The Lakeville post office has operated since 1850, anchoring a Union Township community that spent decades as a scattering of rural schoolhouses -- 13 of them by the 1890s -- before consolidating into one two-story elementary school in 1898. The Old Lakeville High School followed in 1931, earning National Register listing in 1991.
Groundwater Under a Consolidation-Era Town
Homes built around Lakeville's early-1900s consolidation era, when the town's scattered one-room schoolhouses gave way to its 1898 elementary school, sit on Union Township foundations designed well before modern basement drainage codes -- water table and grading conditions from that era still shape how these older homes handle groundwater today.