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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 alignment, two lanes on Michigan Street. Its pre-freeway course in town is a reached-record negative worth printing: no pre-2014 bypass of Lakeville existed — every carrier reached runs US 31 through town on Michigan Street until 2014, the only in-town realignment fossil being the Quinn Trail segment of the building article, undated. The era's road carried real weight: the 1996 INDOT count of some 25,500 vehicles a day between SR 4 and Jefferson Street (via the 2002 Tribune item, snippet strength) and the federal profile's 27,000 a day before the bypass (banked) are two instruments' readings of the same burden — a two-lane main street carrying a metropolitan through-route, with a fifth-lane scheme at the SR 4 junction planned and pressed by the town's businesses in 2002 (the same snippet), and Newton Park developing at the junction's southwest corner in those years (the schools build's ground, pointer only). One rebuild event prints at the strength of its only carrier: before the freeway, northbound travellers "passed over a railroad track on a bridge" entering Lakeville, and "several years ago, traffic was rerouted around US 31 while they removed the track and the bridge" (the corridor surveyor's recollection, undated in the carrier) — the highway's own crossing of the town's rail ground, the diamond's companion piece, printed as a recollection and not dated by this build. The end of the era is the next article's date: on 27 August 2014 the through route left Michigan Street for the first time since 1834.
Principal sources: the US 31 in Indiana route history (designation); Grey's US 31 surveys (field record); South Bend Tribune, 2002 (snippet, labelled); EPA Cool & Connected profile of Lakeville (banked).