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THE NAMES AT THE STRENGTH THE PLATES AND THE RECORD CARRY
The two plats named their streets in two different languages. West Troy's, on the 1875 plate, are the civic names of a cardinal village: Washington Street, Main Street, South Street, Bridge Street — the last naming the Pine Creek crossing at the plat's north. Walkerton's are the railroad's: avenues lettered and named along the diagonal, with numbered cross streets — a system that treats the rail line, not the compass, as the town's meridian. The town history's account, as the Story of Walkerton section carries it, adds the founding generation's street names — Michigan, Virginia, Georgia — from the railroad surveyors' plan; Virginia Street survives in the present town on the U.S. 6 corridor's line, and the numbered-and-avenue fabric survives whole in the diagonal plat's modern street plan. A full street-name course — every documented equation between a plat name and a present name, with the renamings dated — requires the town's ordinance record and the county's road records, and stands as a named gap in this build's note at that strength; what prints here is the system, read off the plates, and the one equation the record states plainly. The highways that carry state and federal numbers through the town — U.S. 6 and State Road 23 at the crossing, State Road 104 ending at the west edge — are Transportation's and the Story of Walkerton section's, pointed to and not retold.