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The Twelve Who Lived on a Road That Never Existed
The Twelve Who Lived on a Road That Never Existed
A sealed metal box hidden under an archive floor held a flawless 1912 federal census page listing twelve people on Hollow Trace Road - a street that was never surveyed, never built, and absent from every map. How did a careful county enumerator and a clerk named Connie Phillips manufacture an address that left official records and the town itself at odds for decades?
In this episode, we lay out the surviving documents and local memories: the census page, letters from county commissioners, and physician notes that linger in a single marginal…
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