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1913–1930s · A FULL-STRENGTH NEGATIVE
Every named auto trail that crossed this region was tested against the town, and every one misses it: the Lincoln Highway ran the northern tier (the Gary–Valparaiso–South Bend–Elkhart course, later US 30) and after relocation US 30's southern line — North Liberty was on neither. The Dixie Highway ran the Michigan Road corridor through Lakeville, east of town; its "Dixie Way" name survives at Roseland and South Bend, not here. The Yellowstone Trail stairstepped Gary–Valparaiso–Plymouth–Warsaw, south of town; the Michigan Road itself is Lakeville's corridor (see the Howard article); the National Old Trails Road ran the US 40 corridor far south; and the Hoosier Highway, the Dixie Bee Line and the Jackson Highway each ran on other alignments — the Jackson Highway on the same Gary–Valparaiso–Plymouth–Fort Wayne stairstep as the Yellowstone. No trail association list, guide, or map reached names Walkerton, North Liberty or Grovertown on any named route. The verdict prints at full strength, stronger than most negatives this build carries, because the five 1917 Main Market Roads close the accounting from inside: Market Road No. 1 became the Lincoln Highway line, No. 2 the Michigan Road, No. 3 the Jackson Highway corridor, No. 4 the National Road, No. 5 the Madison–Indianapolis–Fort Wayne line — every state-adopted corridor of the trail era is accounted for, and none of them is this road. North Liberty sat between the trail corridors, on a county road no association adopted, until the state numbered it in 1930.
Principal sources: INDOT Commissioner's History page (Main Market Roads and their successors, read first-hand at summary strength); the named trails' route records as searched (negative, searches named in the note).