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12 January 1836 (dedication) · 1837 (Chapman's telling)
The town began as a single plat on the Antrim ground, and its plan is the oldest neighbourhood document the record holds. Daniel Antrim's dedication, printed whole in the Story of North Liberty section, lays the town on the southwest quarter of section 28 and the southeast quarter of section 29, township 36 north, range 1 east: streets sixty-six feet wide, Main Street at eighty-two and a half, alleys sixteen and a half feet north–south and fourteen east–west, and every lot ten rods by four — a quarter of an acre. Surveyor Tyra W. Bray's grid is still the town: the houses of North Liberty stand, in the main, on quarter-acre lots along streets of the dedication's widths, and the town never outgrew the plat into named additions in the record of either county history — Howard names additions for other towns in the same chapters and none for this one. The town's recorded additions, if the Recorder's books hold any, bank as a named gap whose settlers are the county plat books and the town plat map in the 1875 county atlas.