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Corridors — Lakeville
Most towns in this county sequence stand near their corridors; Lakeville stands on one, and the corridor is older than the town. The Michigan Road — Indiana's first great north–south highway, a hundred feet wide by treaty — was cut through this ground in the early 1830s, and the town that grew on it began as a tavern stand licensed to serve its traffic. Every corridor era since has run on the same line through the same street: the plank road of 1851–52, the Dixie Highway of 1915, State Road 1, U.S. 31 from 1926 to 2014, and State Road 931 today, with the Historic Michigan Road Byway over all of it and the 2014 freeway a mile east. A second state road, SR 4, crosses it at the town's north edge. this section digs the road whole — its grant, its building, its surfaces, its names, its numbers — and runs the tests the leg requires: every named auto trail by name, every surface dated or its gap named, and the palimpsest of what the street names remember.
The treaty strip and the survey: a hundred feet wide, a section a mile
1826–1832 · the founding road's origin
The road was bought before it was built, and the price was land. By Article 3 of the treaty of 16 October 1826 — the same instrument family whose cessions the land build plots — the Potawatomi ceded, in the text as the Marshall…
The building through this county, and the course through town
1834–1835, and the street course today
Chief credit, says Howard, belongs to one man — and the county section was finished in 1834 and 1835. Howard's roads chapter (Vol. 1, Ch. VI §II — the Contents' own placement, first-hand, correcting the chapter numeral this…
The roadside stands: Earl's Tavern, and the search for a second
1836 · the founding stand whole
The leg's named-stands test returns one stand for this town, and it is the town's origin. William L. Earl took out a licence for a tavern at the present site of Lakeville, having bought a forty-acre tract of Jacob Rector — one of…
The plank road: G-SP-3 settled — the South Bend and Plymouth Plank Road Company, 1851–52
1851 – before the Civil War · the surface that remade the town, briefly
Howard read whole gives the plank road everything except its dates — so the dates come from the county at the road's other end. This pass ran the LK-1 settler first, and reports its result plainly: Howard's roads chapter contains…
Gravel by the townships, and the surfaces after
1860s–2014 · the succession after plank
The surface succession on the founding road runs: cut dirt, corduroy at the holes, plank, gravel — and then a gap in the record where the pavement date should be. Howard's roads chapter carries the gravel era's mechanism as a…
The named-trail era: the Dixie whole, and seven negatives
1913–1926 · tested name by name for the Lakeville segment
One map settles the era for this corridor. The 1925 Rand McNally Junior Auto Trails Map of Indiana marks the South Bend–Rochester reach of this road with all three of its designations together: State Road 1 (a circled 1), the…
1917: Main Market Road No. 1 — the fate argument, corrected for this corridor
1917–1926 · the state takes the road
North Liberty's road missed all five of the 1917 market roads. Lakeville's road is one of them — and the difference must print exactly. Conflict C111 — the numbering of the 1917 roads, printed whole. The sister build's corridors…
U.S. 31 through town, 1926–2014: eighty-eight years on Michigan Street
1 October 1926 – 26 August 2014
The Great Renumbering made SR 1 into US 31 without moving it a foot. US 31 was first designated in October 1926 — the route records give its existence from 1 October 1926 — and through Lakeville it was the Michigan Road…
The 2014 freeway: east of town, Exit 239, and the Mangus dedication
27 August 2014 · the corridor leaves the street
The new U.S. 31 opened on 27 August 2014, and Lakeville's main street got its traffic back — a tenth of it. The state's release that day is titled "Governor Pence Officially Opens New US 31 Plymouth to South Bend" (its text…
State Road 931: the number twice-born, and the log that ends it at the county line
2013–November 2026 · the old road's modern course
SR 931 is a designation for former U.S. 31, coined once for Kokomo and reused a year later for Lakeville. The number's first life is southern and prints at pointer size: designated in 2013 when US 31 was rerouted onto the Kokomo…
State Road 4: the east–west road at the north edge
1942–45 – November 2026 · the town's second corridor
SR 4 is three roads wearing one number, and Lakeville's is the western one. western segment , SR 2 at La Porte to the US 31 interchange east of Lakeville; a central segment , a Goshen stub (the "Philip T. Warner Highway," 5.310…
Crossings and bridges: one junction that is a place, and a bridge record that isn't there
The signature crossing, and the streams
The leg's signature-crossing test lands at the town's north edge. At Michigan Street and Patterson Street — SR 931 × SR 4, log 16.032 on the one road and 25.401 on the other — the 1830s state road, a hundred feet wide…
The palimpsest: what the names remember, and the corridor state in November 2026
November 2026 · the closing article
Read as evidence, the town's road names keep the whole succession. Michigan Street in town, Michigan Road in the state's own log at the county line — the founding road's name survives as the street name through town and as the…
The corridors file owns the Michigan Road whole; these articles supply its missing edge tests and the maps leg's missing classes, from the French sheets to the living county GIS.
The other state roads of the era: the test, and its negative for this ground
Howard's roads chapter and the state-road record, tested for a second road
One state road of the treaty-road era courses this ground — the Michigan Road — and no second one does; the test is printed so the singularity is a finding. The floor's pattern names two companion roads, the Vistula Road and the…
The toll-road and interstate edge, dated: the county's north edge, 1956
The Indiana Toll Road test for this ground
The toll road touches this county and misses this town by the county's whole depth, and the interstate edge is dated here so the freeway article never has to carry it. The Indiana Toll Road — Interstates 80 and 90 together …