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Sources — North Liberty
Two county histories carry the town's first sixty years between them; an 1875 atlas drew its plat and its church; two federal nomination forms froze its buildings in 2007 and 2014; three fire-insurance maps walked its streets. And one book — the town's own history, written by a hometown man in 1978 — stands in the bibliography of a federal form and nowhere else on earth that seven catalogs can find. This section is the build's account of its own evidence: what each source is, what it is good and bad for, what it settled, what it left open, and how a checker can check us. A small town's sources deserve the same rigor as a city's; they get it here.
Chapman (1880): The First County History, Read Whole
Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Chicago, 1880 · Liberty Township: pp. 718–732
Chapman's History of St. 718–732. The carrier read is the LDSGenealogy transcription of the Archive.org copy, and its standing warning prints here because it governs every spelling in the chapter: the transcription's text "was…
Howard (1907): The Judge's History, Read Whole — and a Citation Corrected
Timothy Edward Howard, Lewis Publishing Co., 1907 · Vol. 1
The correction first, because a sources leg exists to make it: Pass 1's frame cited Howard's roads at "Ch. II p. 231" and his railroads at "Ch. III p. 236." 231) and §III "Railroads" (p. 236) — sections of one chapter, not…
The Town's Own History: Saltzgaber's Genesis of North Liberty (1978) — Hunted, and Not Found
self-published, North Liberty, Indiana, 1978 · location unproven
The one book ever written about this town alone is attested by exactly one bibliography and held, so far as seven catalogs can say, by no library anywhere: the hunt for it is documented whole, because the negative is the finding.…
The 1875 Atlas: The Town Drawn
An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana · Higgins, Belden & Co., 1875
Identification first, corrected and completed: the publisher of record, on both the Archive.org copy and the transcription carrier, is Higgins, Belden & Co. The Archive.org full text stands under the identifier…
The Two Nominations as Sources: Bibliographies Read Whole
Commercial Historic District (2014) · North Liberty Park (2007)
The Commercial Historic District form — prepared by Kurt West Garner of Partners in Preservation, dated 15 May 2012, filed 2014, for the fourteen contributing and seven noncontributing resources along State Road 23 between Center…
The Sanborn Test: Run, and Positive — 1909, 1917, 1929
test run November 2026 · Indiana State Library microfilm
Fire-insurance mapping covers North Liberty in three editions — 1909, 1917, and 1929 — settled by two independent carriers agreeing, with the maps themselves on state-library film and at least one edition digitized at the Library…
The Rest of the Shelf: 1893, 1901, the Stoll Volume, and the Volumes That Are Not There
the county shelf, as it stands November 2026
The 1893 volume is the Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties South Bend and the Men Who Have Made It , compiled by Anderson & Cooley, printed by the Tribune Printing Company in 1901, 461 pages, its…
The Newspapers as Sources: A Lineage, a Directory Record, and Film in Walkerton
1892 – 1962 and after · the branch pass runs whole in Pass NL-7
The town's papers are a source before they are a subject: Howard gives their lineage, the federal directory confirms the surviving paper's record whole, and the run itself survives on film at the Walkerton museum — while the full…
The Archives, Seat by Seat
as of November 2026
Four seats hold this town's paper past: the county library's local-history department at South Bend, the historical society at Walkerton, the state library at Indianapolis, and the town's and county's own offices — each stated…
The Record Series This Build Stands On
federal and state series, named
Beyond the books, this build stands on named record series — audit schedules, determinations, gazetteers, bank records, treaty texts — and each series prints here with what it settled, so a checker can re-run the build's…
The Digitized Shelves: What a Checker Can Open Tonight
as of November 2026
The town's evidence divides cleanly into what opens on a screen tonight — the two county histories, the atlas, the nominations, the school and library systems' own pages — and what still sits on film and paper, which the next…
Not Digitized: The Pull List, Printed Whole
the working list, November 2026
Twelve items stand on paper or film only, each with its holder and form named — the build's errand list, printed whole so the next researcher starts where this one stopped. First, the town's own history: Saltzgaber's Genesis of…
The Open-Questions Ledger: This Leg's Honest Tail
as of November 2026
Where is Saltzgaber's Genesis ? — settler: the shelf checks named in its article, or the nomination preparer's file; its existence is attested, its location unproven. What is the Herald's directory record? — settler: the federal…
Photographs: The Credits-and-Rights Ledger for This Leg
as of November 2026 · candidates only — no image pulled
From Pass 1's register, carried forward: the 1875 atlas's North Liberty plat (page 40) and Liberty Township maps (pages 54–55) — public domain, published 1875, cleared to pull from the Archive.org copy. The two nominations'…
Method, the Four-Doors Warning, and How to Check Us
this section's closing statement
This build reads its sources first-hand where a first-hand read exists, prints conflicts whole instead of merging them, digs every current holder to the seat or banks the seat as a named gap, and treats every name as standing…