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The claims · Howard's informant, 1907, and the sesquicentennial, 2006
The number: Samuel J. Nicoles, the Walkerton man Howard thanks for the town's 1907 entry, estimated the town at 1,500 people "present" — in a portrait that also calls his town, not without pride, the county's southwestern capital. The record: the federal count on either side of the estimate is 1,037 (1900) and 1,003 (1910). A town that grew by half in seven years and gave it all back in three is not impossible, but nothing else in the record shows it, and the Story of Walkerton section's custody stands: the 1,500 is printed as what it is, a contemporary local estimate — the record of how the town felt about itself in 1907 — and is merged into no series anywhere in this build. The year: in July 2006 the town celebrated its sesquicentennial, counting 150 years from Howard's plat date of 1856 — a choice between its own sources, Chapman's March 1857 standing in the record unchosen. A town's kept birthday is its own claim about itself, printed here as the town's act rather than as a settled date: the plat record is the Story of Walkerton section's, and on the plat record the 1856 instrument is the one with a proprietor and a day.
Sources
- This build's Spine leg — the Nicoles estimate in its custody, the census series, the 2006 sesquicentennial.
- Howard (1907), pp. 316–317 — the estimate in its original portrait.