George Earle founded Hobart with his purchase of the land from the Potawatomi Indians and is credited with constructing a dam for Deep River, resulting in Lake George.  Also constructed by Earle was a grist mill, the city's first business.  Hobart began as a city of mostly German, Polish and Swedish residents.  

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