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UNSETTLED · THE SETTLER IS THE RECORDED PLAT
The question: the width of the town's main street stands in the record at two measures. Howard, quoting the 1835 plat whole, gives Michigan Street at one hundred feet wide, against sixty for the cross streets — the grand section of a town founded on the Michigan Road. The Historic District nomination's text, as carried in the district's reference article, gives the street as "forty-five feet" wide. One of these is the plat and the other is not; the likeliest reconciliations — a plat width against a built width, a misread figure in one of the two transmissions — are inferences, and this build prints no inference as a settlement. The settlers are named and stand in the pull list: the recorded plat in the county recorder's books, and the nomination read at its own NPGallery seat rather than in carriage.
Principal sources: Howard (1907), the plat as quoted, read first-hand; the district nomination text as carried in the district's reference article.