The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
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, north–south, meets the 1940s state road, east–west, at grade. Every corridor era in this section passes through or beside this one crossing: the Michigan Road and the plank road under it, the Dixie Highway and SR 1 and US 31 over it, SR 4 across it from the 1940s, and the freeway's Exit 239 interchange a short distance east on SR 4's Pierce Road continuation, drawing the through traffic off it since 2014. Newton Park stood at its southwest corner in the old-US 31 era (the 2002 Tribune item). No marker at the crossing was documented in any carrier reached (gap G-RD-13; settlers: the Historical Bureau's county marker list read directly, and a field check). The bridge record prints at its true size, which is a pair of negatives and one field note. The Michigan Road's famous crossing of the country south of town — the Yellow River — is in Marshall County, on the Plymouth reach: boundary pointer only, and no carrier reached ties a Yellow River bridge record to Lakeville or Union Township. Howard's bridge chapter is entirely St. Joseph River — ferries licensed from 1831, the Mishawaka and South Bend bridges whole — and names no bridge in Union Township; for the town's own streams, the lakes' outlet country, no bridge record was reached at all: the federal bridge-inventory carriers reached are programme-level, and no structure-level query for the Lakeville reach was completed (gap G-RD-12; settler: the National Bridge Inventory queried at the town point for the SR 931 and SR 4 facilities, and the department's bridge book). One structure stands at enthusiast strength: the small bridge on Quinn Trail, the probable former US 31 alignment, is "surprisingly wide" — width consistent with a former state-highway structure; the stream it crosses is not named by the carrier, and it prints at that size only.
Principal sources: the Reference Post Book logs as carried (the junction pair); Howard (1907), Ch. VI §II §§1–2 (the bridge negative, first-hand); Grey (the Quinn Trail bridge, field record); the bridge-inventory programme pages (the uncompleted query, stated).