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ROW #665 · THE SECTION-16 ADDITIONS
Thrall's Addition. Founding plat: 24 April 1856, William C. Thrall, on the east half of the northwest quarter of section 16, surveyed by Milton W. Stokes — the first addition of the real town, platted because the Lake Shore road ran through section 16 instead of the original plat's section 9 (Howard, p. 310, carried in the banked leg). Builder/subdivider: Thrall himself, the plat's eponym and proprietor in Howard's account. Street plan: the addition-era grid south of the rails, on the town's section-16 ground. Character: the founding neighbourhood of the town that exists — railroad-era family lots, not the mill-race paper town of 1837. Present state: alive in 14 parcels in the November 2026 pull, lot numbers 19 to 22 among the samples — a 170-year-old plat still describing ground.
Stokes's Addition. Founding plat: surveyed 4 June 1859, Milton W. Stokes's own addition — the surveyor of the town's refounding platting for himself three years later. Street plan, character: whatever ground it took, its lots do not survive under its name. Present state, printed as the finding it is: zero parcels in the town carry the 1859 addition by name. Whether its lots were replatted under later names, absorbed into descriptions the parse could not resolve, or carried under a form the instrument missed is, in the banked leg's words, a Recorder's-office question — settler: the Recorder's plat books, Stokes's Addition (1859) sheet itself, traced forward through its replats. An article at zero is still an article: Stokes's is the only substantial plat in this section whose present state is extinction as a description.
Sources:
- Neighborhoods leg — Thrall's and Stokes's whole, Howard p. 310; the parcel counts (14 / 0) from the O-5 instrument.