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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 file states the fate argument in the form: "Market Road No. 1 became the Lincoln Highway line, No. 2 the Michigan Road…" The carriers reached state the opposite pairing for Nos. 1–2, in three independent tellings: the official description quoted in the state's transportation-history record — "No. 1. The highway beginning at the Indiana and Michigan state line, thence southerly through South Bend, Plymouth, Rochester, Peru, Kokomo, Westfield, Carmel, Indianapolis, Franklin, Columbus, Seymour, Scottsburg, Sellersburg, New Albany and Jeffersonville," and Main Market Road No. 2 running "through Dyer, Valparaiso, Laporte, South Bend, Goshen and Fort Wayne via the Lincoln Highway"; the US 31 route history — "US 31 was signed into law by the Governor on March 7, 1917, as Main Market Highway 1, and signs were installed on June 1 of that year"; and the Lincoln Highway study — the 1913 Lincoln Highway "is shown as Main Market Route #2 on a 1917 map." The build prints the sister file's sentence and the three carriers together, unmerged; for Lakeville's ground the three-carrier side governs this section's text, and the settler is named for both builds (the 1917 state highway map; the act's own text). The refinement that keeps the correction honest: Main Market Road No. 1 was a composite — the Michigan Road from the state line through South Bend, Plymouth and Rochester, then the Range Line Road through Peru and Kokomo to Indianapolis, then a southern composite toward the Ohio. Carl Fisher's plea that the Michigan Road from South Bend to Indianapolis be made the original No. 1 entire — and not the Range Line Road — lost south of Rochester and won north of it. The two halves both print: the Michigan Road as a named historic road was not among the five in 1917 (the surveyor's surprise is a carrier's: "You might be surprised to learn that the Michigan Road was not among them"); the Michigan Road as ground through Lakeville was adopted in 1917 under the composite's number. In 1919, when the state highway commission was made permanent, the road became Original State Road 1, running from Clarksville through Indianapolis to the Michigan state line; through Lakeville, SR 1 was Michigan Street, and the 1925 map in the trails article shows its circled 1 on this reach in the designation's last full year.
Principal sources: the official Main Market Road descriptions as quoted by Indiana Transportation History (secondary carrier of the official text); the US 31 in Indiana route history; the Lincoln Highway/Yellowstone Trail study; Grey, Adding the Michigan Road to the modern Indiana highway system (2015).