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% <br />i <br />Original Town of Louisville <br />On Feb. 18, 1878, Louis Nawatny purchased a 40-acre parcel of land for $100, then executed <br />multiple back -and -forth transactions with Charles Welch, who retained the land's subsurface <br />mineral rights (Lindquist 2010:12). Just over three months later, on May 20, 1878, Welch sold <br />11 lots to Rebecca Jeannette Darrow for $500, and then married her eight days later. Welch gave <br />Darrow an excellent deal; the average price for her lots was $45 each, while the lots Welch <br />subsequently sold to other people averaged $100 each. Several months later, on October 24, <br />1878, Nawatny officially filed the town plat with the Boulder County Clerk (Figure 8). Nawatny <br />sold 18.5 of the 85 platted lots to Welch, his wife, or one of their relatives (Lindquist 2010:12). <br />The town plat included the present-day 600 to 900 blocks of Front Street and Second Street <br />(renamed Main Street in the 1920s), and the cross -streets of Walnut, Spruce, and Pine (Bacon <br />2007b:3). This area was bounded by the CCR tracks on the east, present-day South Street on the <br />north, the alley west of present-day Main Street on the west, and present-day Elm Street on the <br />south (Avenue L Architects 2013:4-2). Second/Main Street was originally residential and Front <br />Street, located closer to the railroad tracks, was commercial. Over time, as the town grew and <br />needed additional services, Second/Main Street became increasingly commercial (Bacon 2016). <br />I <br />• 1 <br />I� <br />a <br />M <br />r <br />w <br />• <br />• <br />Figure 8. Nawatny's original 1878 town plat (Bacon 2007b:3). <br />22 <br />