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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 byway's name over it; in South Bend the same road prints Michigan Street and Michigan Avenue and carried the spoken name Dixieway for a generation. Against that survival, a clean negative: no "Plank Road" or "State Road" street name in Lakeville was found in any carrier reached — the plank era, which platted the town's additions, left no name on its streets (reached-record negative; the town plat and street map are the settler class, with gap G-RD-4). Patterson Street stands at the north edge with SR 4 in the town's own framing; its naming origin was not reached, and the build does not etymologise it. Quinn Trail is a modern street name on the probable old alignment — its "Trail" remembers nothing of the auto-trail era, and the trails article's tests stand unaffected by it. Pierce Road is the corridor outliving its designation east of the freeway: where SR 4's number ends at the interchange, the road continues under a county name — the same pattern the sister build found on the same segment at North Liberty. The freeway era's names are the dedication and the address: the Richard W. Mangus Memorial Highway on a portion of the new road, Exit 239 as the town's freeway address, and SR 931 itself as the modern address stem — the town's largest employer addressing itself by the number that replaced the name, at 65465 SR 931. The modern frame, dated: SR 931 and SR 4 both stand current at their crossing; the byway (2011) signs the old alignment at corridor level; the Quinn Trail fragment survives as the one in-town realignment fossil; and the traffic instruments must not be merged — the federal profile's 27,000-to-5,400 pair (banked) and the 1996 state count of 25,500 (snippet) are different instruments from a state AADT, and no department AADT figure for SR 931 through town was retrieved (gap G-RD-14; settler: the department's traffic-count database queried directly). The road that made the town now carries the town's local traffic at a fifth of its through-era load, under its fifth designation in a century — and under its first name, Michigan, which it has carried for two hundred years.
Principal sources: the articles of this section and their carriers; the town's own published frame (banked); Grey (the Dixieway survival, the Quinn Trail and Pierce Road observations).