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THE RECORD AS IT STANDS · NOVEMBER 2026
What this section could not settle is named, with the source that settles each item, so no gap here is silent:
GAP-NC7-T1 — The Death Crossing's toll. The Town Hall marker's superlative — the largest number of victims of any crossing on the coast-to-coast route — is the documented form of the count; no number stands in the record reached. Settlers: the South Bend Tribune and News-Times files for the crossing years; the St. Joseph County coroner's records; the Lincoln Highway Association's crossing files.
GAP-NC7-T2 — The stage era at timetable strength. No stage company's name, timetable, or fare table for the Michigan Road's New Carlisle length, and no roadside stand beyond Ivens's hotel and the Hamilton house, stands in the record reached. Settlers: the county histories' full texts beyond the extracts read; the Gazette's files from 1880; the Michigan Road Byway association's corridor documentation.
GAP-NC7-T3 — The surface succession on this length. The plank and gravel chapters of the Michigan Road are documented for other lengths, not for the Terre Coupee length; the dates of first gravel and first pavement through the town are unsettled. Settlers: the county commissioners' road records; the State Highway Commission's biennial reports; the Gazette.
GAP-NC7-T4 — The steam road's last passenger stop. New Carlisle was a station town from 1851; the date its New York Central passenger service ended is not fixed by any record reached. Settlers: the Official Guide of the Railways across the mid-century decades; the Tribune's files; the railroad's public timetables.
GAP-NC7-T5 — The interurban station building's fate. The station building at New Carlisle was built by the interurban company; its demolition or survival after the Northern Indiana's removal is not in the record reached. Settlers: the town's own history (Watt & Wade, 1956); the Sanborn and aerial record (NC-6's maps pass); the Gazette.
Image candidates (nothing pulled). The two overpasses shortly after opening, as carried in the Lincoln Highway survey accounts (rights basis as stated there: the University of Michigan Library's Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection — TERMS-CHECK at item level); the Death Crossing marker photograph (HMdb m=244095, contributor-carried — TERMS-CHECK); the 1837 lithographed promotion plat's view of the town (carried in the Story of New Carlisle section; public-domain instrument — PULL-class at item level per NC-1's note). Candidates route to the parent's PRIME-IMAGE-PULLS consolidation; nothing was pulled.