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that hit Lewis County - - where a trip to view the aftereffects of the event doesn't give Ceres (the community) a mention, just a brief summary of damages of infrastructure around Ceres Hill. If a catastrophic event that hit an existing town/community doesn't mention a community while visiting said
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The area begins to be referred to as "Ceres Hill", rather than Ceres beginning in the early 1930s, and by the end of the 20th century, Ceres seems to never be referred to as a community, mostly just a general area. Based on that, I find that simply rewriting the article to classify Ceres as a "former
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Where I agree - Ceres was a rail station with a small post office in a grocer's building, surrounded by a farming community at its beginnings. The depot was across the tracks from the general store. Also, during my search. I can agree that Ceres is no longer a recognizable community.
505:, there are hundreds of newspaper articles (local or regional) about daily life in Ceres, such as comings-and-goings, visitors, dances, grange activities, farm production, deaths (drops dead, 1913) (long-time resident of Ceres, 1962) and an enormous amount on the
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farms including the winning of some big award in New York City. The heaviest concentration of these types of writings are in the 1920s with many describing the Ceres
Improvement Club, which had their own hall.
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Now, onto the fact that Ceres was a community in the past. Below is a list of sources about Ceres as a community - mentioning either outright or in a vein as one would in talking about a community.
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So, as I'll repeat at the deletion discussion talk page, Ceres was a community but no longer is and we should
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