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Neighborhoods — Lakeville
Lakeville is a town of well under a thousand people on about six-tenths of a square mile, and its neighbourhoods print at that size: the paper comes first — an original plat of six lots and five additions, only two of them located on the ground by any carrier — then the named areas the record actually gives: one main street, two lake shores, a north edge of three anchors, a prairie, a settlement district that must not be merged with another, and a highway corridor. No district is manufactured that the record does not name.
The Paper First — Original Plat and Additions
1857 – 1859 · lots, not streets
Coquillard's Addition is older on paper than the plat it adjoins. The townsite lies in the E½ of the SE¼ of Section 34 and the west part of the SW¼ of Section 35, Township 36 North, Range 2 East (Howard's "township thirty-seven…
Every Named Area, Whole at Its Size
Downtown, the shores, the north side, the prairie, the corridor
"Downtown" is one street, and the record says so by never naming another. Chapman's 1880 village — two good country stores, a drug and hardware store, a hotel, shoe-shops, blacksmith shops, saw- and grist-mills, two churches, a…
Street Names — the Documented Equations, and One That Stays Open
Michigan Street's chain whole; G-RD-4 stands
Michigan Street is the Michigan Road, and its chain is documented whole: Michigan Road = Main Market Road No. 1 (1917, in part) = State Road 1 (1919) = US 31 (1 October 1926 – 26 August 2014) = SR 931 (2014– ), with the Historic…
Annexation — a Closing Synthesis That Is Honestly a Gap
Incorporated 7 July 1902; the course thereafter unreached
Incorporation is documented; everything after it is not. Lakeville was incorporated 7 July 1902 by order of the board of county commissioners — Howard's closing line for the town is the whole of his statement on it; the variants…
The named areas, one by one
The survey, split to its true size · residue stated
Six named areas make the town's geography, and each has its own record — most of them short. Downtown is one street, and the record says so by never naming another: Chapman's 1880 village — two good country stores, a drug and…