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The Barnes family of plats — about 30 parcels, and the Garfield line in its descriptions

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BARNES 1ST, 2ND AND THE ADDITION TO OSCEOLA, COUNTED TOGETHER AND NAMED APART

Founding plats and size. The Barnes family totals about 30 parcels across three named instruments: Barnes 1st, Barnes 2nd, and the Barnes Addition to Osceola (Neighborhoods, roster). Three separately named plats under one surname is the fullest subdividing sequence any family in the town's record shows at this size — a first addition that sold well enough to justify a second, and a third under the town's own name. Subdivider. As with Long's, the surname is the whole of the identification the openly reachable record carries; no Barnes subdivider is biographically fixed in the sketches or directories pulled, and none is assigned. Street plan — the one street fact this family does yield. Neighborhoods's street-names article carries the Barnes descriptions as one of its documented equations: the name Garfield lives in the Barnes descriptions — a street name preserved inside the family's legal lines, of the presidential-naming generation that also gives the town its Garfield Street at Baugo Bay (Parks's bay point stands at Garfield Street). The equation is printed as Neighborhoods prints it — as a documented name in the descriptions — and no fuller street plan is reconstructed from it. Character and present state: about 30 live parcels in November 2026, in three still-distinguishable parts; a family whose plats, alone among the mid-size families, carry a recoverable street name in their own text. Named gaps (per-plat settler): each of the three plats' date, book and page, lot count and subdivider — the Recorder's plat books for Barnes 1st, Barnes 2nd and the Barnes Addition to Osceola, severally.

Sources:

  1. Neighborhoods, banked (Barnes family about 30 across the three named plats; Garfield in the Barnes descriptions, street-names article).
  2. Parks, banked (Garfield Street, Baugo Bay point) — street-name corroboration at pointer size. Recorder's plat books named as settler.

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Source: The Barnes family of plats — about 30 parcels, and the Garfield line in its descriptions, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/neighborhoods/barnes-family-of-plats-about-30-parcels-and-the/