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nineteenth century–1903, at the record's strength
No plat, deed, or ordinance reserving a town park appears in the record, and the town's first recreation ground was water.What the settlement used instead was what the Land leg's ground offered: the St. Joseph River's banks, Baugo Creek's course, and, after the dam project the road guides date to 1903 raised Baugo Bay across the old roadbed — the date undated and unproven on the record reached; the bay's making is The Land's to tell whole, and this section points — a sheet of slack water at the town's north edge that became, by use long before by law, the town's swimming, fishing, boating, and picnic ground. The pattern is the common one for towns of Osceola's size and it is printed without embroidery: the public ground was customary first, the county made it formal in 1987, and the town itself never has. A town-owned parcel, if one exists, would overturn this article's negative; its settler is named in the gaps.
Sources
- Spine leg (the 1856 and 1859 additions).
- The Land leg (the 1903 dam and the making of Baugo Bay), at pointer size.