The town code as a source

Town of Roseland, Town Code, Title I, Ch. 11, §11.01 "Town History" (1989 Code, p. iv), read whole from the town's official code PDF

Section 11.01 is the town's codified memory of itself, and this build uses it as what it is: a secondary summary enacted into the code, carrying no citations. Read whole, its seven divisions give the geography, the incorporation course (petition 27 December 1915; the Roselawn-to-Roseland affidavit the same day; the vote in Fred Ullery's grocery; incorporation 25 January 1916, 348.7 acres, 165 people), mail delivery from 1927, the marshal's creation in 1938 and the speed-trap reputation in the town's own words, the first ordinances of 1949, the 1974 Community Center on William Randall's donated land, and the 1976 flag of Dennis St. Germain and Ella Riffel. Its population line — "at the last census was 630" — dates its own base to the 2010 census. Good for: the town's official self-account and the leads it names. Bad for: proof — every load-bearing figure in it (the 1915–16 dates, the acreage, the 165) is precisely what the petition file and the Recorder's books exist to verify, and where the code and the primary record could one day differ, the code prints as the town's claim, not as the fact.