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1863 · Run B #183
The test comes back positive, and the map is this town's own surveyor's: the Library of Congress holds the first map of St. Joseph County, and its record is printed whole. Title: Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana. Maker: M. W. Stokes, published at Philadelphia in 1863; engraved, printed and mounted by Charles Shober. The map carries its own copyright line: “Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by M. W. Stokes in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States within & for the District of Indiana.” It is a land-ownership map — the Library files it in its land-ownership series (LC Land ownership maps, 168) — showing the county's owners on their parcels, and it carries the furniture of the genre: a population statistical table, a distance table, and views of residential, public and commercial buildings. Call number G4093.S2G46 1863 .S7; Library of Congress Control Number 2013593163; the sheet is digitized (digital id loc.gmd/g4093s.la000168). The Indiana State Library's county-map list confirms the sheet from the other side: “1863 — Map of St Joseph County Indiana (ISL does not own) — property owners indicated — full image available online.” The county library's map case holds a copy, entered in its finding aid as “1863 Charles Shober's Map of St. Joseph County, Indiana,” in the roads, rural routes and land-use group. One small conflict rides in the Library's own citation form, which has also rendered the imprint year as 1866 against the map's entered-1863 line; the sheet's own entry governs, and both are printed here so the discrepancy is not discovered later as an error of this build's. And the maker's name closes a circle this build already owns: M. W. Stokes is Milton W. Stokes, the surveyor who drew Osceola's Thrall-era addition of 1856 and the Stokes Addition of 4 June 1859 — the man who platted the standing town's additions also drew the county's first map, four years later, with the new town on it.
Library of Congress catalogue record for Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (LCCN 2013593163; call G4093.S2G46 1863 .S7; digital id loc.gmd/g4093s.la000168), read whole for this section; Indiana State Library, St. Joseph County maps list (the 1863 entry); St. Joseph County Public Library, Local & Family History map-case finding aid (as of 20 December 2021); this build's Spine (Milton W. Stokes, surveyor of the 1856 and 1859 additions).