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Via U. of Alabama, from Colton, J.H., Colton's Indiana (New York: J.H. Colton, 1856).
This map shows the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad running at least through Valparaiso, and yet The History of Porter County, Indiana (Chicago: F.A. Battey & Co., 1882), as excerpted here, states that said railroad "was laid through Porter County in 1858."
The U. of Alabama may be mistaken about the publication date. Here, the publication date is given as 1859. I leave it to someone with a better-than-dial-up connection to try to figure out if those are the same maps. I don't really care, because Ainsworth doesn't show up on this map, and, of course, the Grand Trunk Railroad is about two decades in the future.
Just to add to the confusion, there were two different Coltons (J.H. and G.W.) making maps of Indiana in the 19th century.
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If you're interested, the entire text of the book those excerpts are from is available online, entitled Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: historical and biographical: http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/weston-arthur-goodspeed/counties-of-porter-and-lake-indiana--historical-and-biographical-532/1-counties-of-porter-and-lake-indiana--historical-and-biographical-532.shtml
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