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 north" is a conflict printed whole in the land file; the measured frame governs). The original plat is Lots A–F, on the west side of the Michigan Road, first shown lying north of and adjoining Coquillard's Addition, recorded 23 December 1859 "again in connection with the Coquillard addition." No dedicator, proprietor, or surveyor for the original is named by Howard or any carrier reached (the land file's gap G-LD-3; settler: the Recorder's plat books). Lots A–F are lots: no lettered-street system is documented anywhere, and none is invented. Coquillard's Addition was platted 18 August 1857 by Alexis T., Alexis, and Frances C. Coquillard — an addition on the record two years before the original plat; its ground character then or now is not separately documented (a named gap at character strength; the 1875 Atlas's Lakeville plat at p. 40 is a settler). Howard names four later proprietors and gives no dates — John Henderson, Michael Hupp, Stephen A. Ulery, Sarah E. Rush — and the Geyer narrative adds, at narrative strength, that Hupp platted much of Lakeville on the east side, including Michigan and Main streets. The additions are not dated by Howard's plank-road passage, as the corridors file cautions whole: each prints at paper size, proprietor named, ground beyond Coquillard's (adjoining, west side) and Hupp's (east side) undocumented.