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1875
The subscription atlas is the nineteenth century's great local map machine, and its St. Joseph County volume — the Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, Indiana, published by Higgins, Belden & Co. of Chicago in 1875 — is the single most worked cartographic document in this entire build. Its index, read first-hand from the Internet Archive's copy for the sources leg, places the town's matter precisely: the Plat of New Carlisle at page 41; the Olive Township plates at pages 34–35, mapping the township's farms, roads and burying grounds at 1875 strength; and the township's directory of residents at pages 102–103, the atlas doubling as gazetteer. Its county-history section doubles as a town gazetteer of its own, seating Terre Coupee at its laying-out of 12 April 1837 with "present population about 300" and carrying the township's Plainfield — both worked in the neighborhoods leg. The subscription discipline prints with the plates wherever this build uses them: an atlas of this class was sold by canvass, a name's presence in its directory was bought with a subscription, and absence from its pages proves nothing about absence from the ground — the plates are used for geography and occupancy, never for completeness.
Sources
- Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Higgins, Belden & Co., Chicago, 1875) — Internet Archive copy (item illustratedhisto00higg), index and county-history section read first-hand in the sources pass.
- Chapman (1880) — the open correction of the atlas.