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Town Code §11.01(D); the telling's keepers
Most towns acquire their reputations from travellers; Roseland wrote its own into its code. The sentence stands in §11.01(D) of the town's codified history, between the marshal's creation in 1938 and the first ordinances of 1949, in the flat tone of a clerk recording a road's renaming: "With the creation of this post, Roseland came to be considered a speed trap by motorists." It is folklore in the strict sense — a reputation carried by telling rather than by document — with the unusual feature that its teller is the town itself, and its documented kernel is recoverable: a marshal post created to work one highway's traffic, and a fine system the state's examiner challenged and the courts upheld a generation later (the major-events file carries the case). What grew on the kernel — the motorists' wariness the sentence reports — no outside carrier reached preserves, and the claim is tested as a claim in the stories file. Here it prints as what it is in the town's own keeping: the one piece of fame a 2,400-foot-wide town could earn on a national highway, recorded by the town with something not far from pride.