The numbered roads — and the two famous roads that are not here

THE HIGHWAY ERA, WITH THE NEGATIVES PRINTED

The automobile age gave Walkerton two numbered corridors and bypassed it with both of the region's famous ones: through town east and west runs U.S. Route 6, the Grand Army of the Republic Highway — designated a U.S. route in Indiana in 1932, laid over the second State Road 6, which the state had under construction in 1928 expressly "to help relieve traffic on the Lincoln Highway"; its course crosses the Kankakee River into the county, runs through Walkerton's downtown, and leaves southeast toward Bremen (U.S. Route 6 in Indiana, route description). North and south runs State Road 23: up from State Road 10 and Grovertown to meet U.S. 6 in Walkerton — the two share a brief concurrency through downtown, a tenth of a mile by the junction table — then out of town to the northeast through North Liberty toward South Bend (Indiana State Road 23, junction table). State Road 104 ends in Walkerton from the south, the short state road terminating at the town's crossing (roadfan, Routes in South Bend and Metro Northern Indiana). The negatives are printed with the same care as the positives, because this county's builds have twice been tempted to import a sister town's roads: U.S. 33 does not come to Walkerton — its Indiana course runs Elkhart, Goshen and Ligonier to Fort Wayne, and it touches U.S. 6 only at Ligonier, far east (U.S. Route 6 in Indiana, major junctions); the U.S. 33 and Lincoln Highway corridor through Osceola, one build east in this sequence, is that town's record, not this one's. The Lincoln Highway does not come to Walkerton either: its Indiana course, carried today by U.S. 30, passes south of the town through Grovertown and Plymouth — the junction table for State Road 23 names the crossing at Grovertown "US 30 / Lincoln Highway – Plymouth, Valparaiso." Walkerton's highway identity is its own and smaller: a U.S. highway that was built to relieve the famous road, crossing a state road that runs from the Bass Lake country to the Michigan line, in a downtown the railroads had already gridded. The corridors at depth are Corridors' leg.