House Numbering

[stormdog]

There's a great sort of editorial page in the 1902 city directory for Jacksonville, Illinois, explaining why some of the house numbers are incorrect. "...the vast majority of them...will, upon actual examination of the facts, be found to be wholly to the gross carelessness of incompetency of city officials and the arbitrary wishes of property owners. Houses have been officially and wrongly numbered without any reference to the requimentes of the city ordinance, while property owners have in a great many cases arbitrarily selected their own numbers...."

Also, according to Google Maps, the Lake Jacksonville boat dock in the southeast quadrant of Jacksonville town square. In the middle of the city with no water to be seen, except maybe the fountain.