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outside of a classroom environment . I was exposed in greater <br /> concentration to a third skill I had learned while doing detailed <br /> papers and projects , that of research . I have written many pa- <br /> pers and dug up information for class presentations and essays , <br /> but nothing I had researched previous to taking on this intern - <br /> ship compared with the digging I did for New Carlisle ' s architec- <br /> tural history . During the course of my work with the St . Joseph <br /> County Historic Preservation Commission , I have learned new ways <br /> of finding out information , and new places to look for it . <br /> Government records are one particularly useful tool . <br /> An indication of how quickly , how large and in what direction <br /> a town is growing can be found in plat addition records . By <br /> examining the dates of additions with respect to where they were <br /> platted and how large the parcels were , I could infer certain <br /> general facts about economic and agricultural activity , the age <br /> of buildings constructed on the plats , as well as deduce land- <br /> scape features and the environment conditions in and around the town . <br /> Street names can also indicate certain things about a town . The <br /> names of New Carlisle ' s original street , Race , Arch , Filbert , <br /> Cherry , Chestnut and Front were taken from Philaaelphia . As it <br /> turns out , Richard Carlisle , founder of the town , was from <br /> Philadephiia ai,d the familiar names prohably served to orient <br /> him in the strange Indiana wilderness , a far cry from his refined <br /> eastern city home . <br /> The second very useful research tool was to survey cards . <br /> On these sheets was a wealth of information running the gamut <br /> fromdate and mode of construction , to architectural style and <br /> 3 <br />