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No bank was ever seated here; no business is proven inside the line at any date; no dealership ever stood here; no farm is named on the ground after 1836 and none remains; no employer sits in town. What remains — the whole of the town's economic life — is its housing: a small stock of detached houses on seven streets, built across the middle decades of the twentieth century and after, owned mostly by the people who live in them, carrying the town's entire tax base and returning its residents' earnings from workplaces outside the line. This fragment is that stock's course: how it came to be counted, what the survey says it is made of, what it is worth, what it pays for, and the one document — the plat — that would explain its shape and has not been reached.