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1836 · THE FOUR-WAY THE STATE ROADS LATER TOOK
The town was centred on a crossing before it had roads to cross: Howard (pp. 313–314) records the plat laid out in January 1836 at the corner common to sections 28, 29, 32 and 33 of Township 36 North, Range 1 East, with Main Street "intended to be of extraordinary width, being 82.5 feet, while others are but 66 feet" — a main street half again the standard width, at the one four-way in the surveyed grid. The geometry prints as geometry: Howard does not call the town a crossroads plat, and this section does not put the word in his mouth. The one piece of course evidence from the county history's hand is Howard's own, in the Crum's Point article (Ch. IX §II.2, p. 310): the hill at the Lakeville edge was "a sort of thoroughfare in the early history, one of the main gravel roads leading southwest from South Bend and connecting with the road to North Liberty and Walkerton" — a named destination pairing, no name, date or course given; the ancestor corridor of today's SR 23 printed as correspondence, not identity.
The plat's own conflict rides here, carried whole from the register. Conflict C1: the plat's authorship and date print two ways in the record — Howard and the plat text: Daniel Antrim alone, 12 January 1836; Chapman (1880) and the National Register nomination: both Daniel and Jonas Antrim, 1837. Nothing's reading touches the pair, and it stands unmerged, as it has stood since NL-1.
Principal sources: Howard (1907), pp. 310, 313–314 (transcription, read first-hand); the banked register for C1.