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1800s–1920 · tested against the Sanborn surveys
The working evidence for the town's early rooms is the Sanborn sequence worked in the maps leg (1909, 1917, 1929): three fire-insurance surveys of a one-block commercial core, in which the National Register nomination (2014) identifies the district's uses building by building — bank, town hall, jail, fire department, bakery, printing office — and in which no saloon is separately identified in the extracts read. A farm township of largely Pennsylvania-German stock, dry-leaning church country, is the context the county histories give, and no tied-house saloon, keeper's brewery or saloon-row roster for North Liberty was found in any source read. The road-house class the floor opens with belongs to the through-roads: the tavern tradition that survives here sits not on Main Street but west of town on the Crumstown Highway, where it stands today. Prohibition's rooms, per the floor's rule, are pointed to the crime record at pointer size: no speakeasy, raid or still case naming a North Liberty room was found in sources read — a negative printed, not a dryness assumed.