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BRIDGES · A NAMED NEGATIVE, THEN THE DOCUMENTED SET
Neither county history names a Potato Creek bridge, ford, or mill-dam crossing for this town: Howard's bridges are the St. Joseph River's, Chapman's Liberty chapter has no bridge at all, and the item stands as a named negative — gap G-W2R-5 — its settlers the Commissioners' order books (G-W2R-4) and the 1875 atlas plates. What the record does document is the creek's crossings inside the town's own park, at National Register nomination strength: the 1930s Potato Creek dam impounding Worster Lake, its pedestrian bridge treated as one contributing structure; fieldstone footbridge abutments, probably 1930s, contributing; and a concrete slab bridge rated non-contributing as "probably built in the 1950s or later" — the creek's crossing history in town thus runs from abutments without dates to a slab without a name, and no earlier bridge on the town site is claimed.
The highway crossing is a different fact and prints plainly: State Road 23 in town makes no main-stem crossing of Potato CreekG-W2R-6). The state park's own bridges are the park's whole and are pointed to, not entered here.
Principal sources: North Liberty Park National Register nomination (snippet strength); Howard (1907) and Chapman (1880), read first-hand (the negative); the park's record (pointer).