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WILLIAMSPORT AND CANTON, AT BOUNDARY SIZE
Two plats older than the town's growth left no built ground at all, and the parcel record confirms the histories: Williamsport (13 December 1834), on section 9 at the junction of the river and Baugo Creek — the creek mouth itself — and Canton (14 December 1835), on section 16 on the Baugo, vacated 3 June 1844: the Story of Osceola section tells both whole, Howard's obituary for the pair being that "none of the towns in this part of the county, except Osceola, have had more than an ephemeral existence." Neither name appears in the legal descriptions of the town's 1,388 parcels in the November 2026 pull. Where the 1837 plat survives as a description, its two predecessors survive only as history: no lot in the modern town is described by either paper town's name. That is the whole of their neighborhood record, and it is a finding, not an omission — the instrument that found the founding plat 39 times found Williamsport and Canton zero times.