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the pre-number road, in Howard (1907)
Before it was a highway, the road through this ground was the road to Niles. Timothy Edward Howard's History of St. Joseph County (1907) uses the name in passing, the way a county history uses the name everybody knows: "Near where the creek crosses the Niles road north of Notre Dame, Stephen Ullery, over half a century ago, ran a little carding mill…" — the mill Stephen Ullery built on the creek in the early 1850s stood by this road, north of Notre Dame, on the ground this section covers. Howard prints the surname Ullery and calls the stream Ullery creek in this passage; the creek's other name, Sheffield creek, stands against it inside Howard itself, and the pair is carried unmerged in the register at C10. The Niles Road is the corridor's first documented name-layer: the wagon road from South Bend north to Niles, Michigan, the line the interurban would parallel, the Dixie Highway would adopt, and the state would number three times over. No earlier formal name for the road on this ground was found.
Source: Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Vol. 1 (1907), Clay Township chapter, the carding-mill passage, transcription verified.