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The banked set carried one name out of this record — the Crum's Point road, at one line in Before the City.It stands in Howard's pioneers chapter, in the Pierre Navarre section (Howard, p. 131), and it is a list of survivals, not of new roads: "The old trails are now marked by city streets and main roads leading through and from South Bend, Mishawaka and other towns, towards Fort Wayne and points to the north, south, east and west." Howard then names the markings, and every name in his list is printed here, each coursed against this ground:
(1) The way marked by Vistula Avenue, through South Bend and Mishawaka — the east–west line across the county's north, the descendant of the trail and road system that tied the St. Joseph valley to Fort Wayne. It runs nowhere near Lincoln Township; its course is the county seat's, and it enters this town's record only as the northern counterpart that shows what Howard's list is: a county list, not a township one. (2) The Turkey Creek road — a named road of the county's interior, on the South Bend side of the county in Howard's telling; no course through or past Lincoln Township is stated, and none is claimed here. (3) Michigan Street and Avenue(4) The Sumption Prairie road — the road toward Sumption's Prairie, the prairie country south-west of South Bend on the way toward this corner of the county; of the whole list, this and the next are the two whose courses run toward Lincoln Township's side of the county, though Howard states no township-by-township course for either. (5) The Crum's Point road — the road to Crum's Point, the settlement Howard treats among the county's unincorporated towns (his towns chapter, §2) and the 1875 atlas plates as a plat of its own (atlas p. 41, beside West Troy's); its road is the one name in the list the banked build already tied to this country, as a road "running toward this country" from the river towns' hunting ground. (6) La Porte Avenue — the South Bend street marking the road west toward La Porte; the county-scale ancestor, at its eastern end, of the La Porte direction the founding road of #130 serves at its western end — the two are segments of one county idea, travel between the bend and La Porte, but no record reached joins them into a single named road across Lincoln Township, and they are not joined here. (7) Portage Avenue — the street of the portage itself, at South Bend, wholly the portage ground's own. (8) South Bend Avenue, or the Edwardsburg road — northeast, toward Edwardsburg in Michigan; the list's farthest reach from this ground. (9) Mishawaka Avenue — Mishawaka's river street, the second city's own.
What the whole list proves for Walkerton is a shape, and it is worth printing plainly: of the nine markings Howard names, seven belong to the two cities' street systems and never touch this township; two — the Sumption Prairie road and the Crum's Point road — run toward the county's southwest, this town's quarter, without a stated course through it; and not one road in Howard's trails record is coursed through Lincoln Township or to Walkerton itself. The Vistula Road and Chicago Road tests the register names resolve inside this finding: those are corridor names of the county's north and of other grounds, tested here against Howard's whole list and not found on this ground.
Closure: DUG — Howard's p. 131 record read whole, every named road coursed; the finding for this ground is the stated absence, with the two southwest-running names printed at their true size.
Sources: Howard (1907), pioneers chapter, Pierre Navarre section, p. 131, read first-hand for this section (the trails list and the Kankakee hunting-grounds sentence, whole); Howard, towns chapter (Crum's Point among the unincorporated towns); Higgins, Belden & Co., Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County (1875), index and plates (Crum's Point, plat of, p. 41; West Troy, p. 40), as banked; Before the City and Transportation legs of this build.