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AUDIT ROW #393 · HOLC — THE ABSENCE IS THE FINDING · COVENANTS UNDER THEIR SETTLER
Walkerton was never HOLC-mapped: the Home Owners' Loan Corporation's grading maps covered the county's city, and a town of Walkerton's size was outside the programme's urban mapping altogether — so the canonical written instrument of redlining does not exist for this ground, and its absence is printed as a finding, not a gap. The era's other written instrument, the racially restrictive covenant in a deed or plat, is a different matter: such covenants in this county's subdivisions are a documented Midwestern pattern, and Walkerton's plats were not read deed by deed from this seat. The covenant limb therefore closes as a named gap under its precise settler — the St. Joseph County Recorder's deed and plat books for the town's additions — the same settler class this programme's Fort Wayne work uses, and the honest position is printed: no HOLC grade to read; the plat books unread; the town's housing closedness established demographically (the counts) rather than instrumentally.
Principal sources: the HOLC mapping record (Mapping Inequality) as reached — South Bend mapped, Walkerton not in the mapped set; settler named — St. Joseph County Recorder, deed and plat books (the covenant limb).