Daily SAT Question 7/12
Answer to yesterday's was A for sure.
A regional newspaper printed in 1842 describes "Cedar Landing" on the Ohio River as a place where farmers could "leave produce to be taken downriver." Other evidence, however, strongly supports a founding date of 1851 for the town of Cedar Landing, including a state charter and surveys indicating that town lots were first laid out that year. If both the 1842 newspaper account and the 1851 founding date are correct, that would imply that ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
the name “Cedar Landing” referred in 1842 to an unincorporated settlement rather than a formally chartered town.
the location served as an informal river landing before it became an officially chartered town in 1851.
the state charter issued in 1851 merely confirmed boundaries that had already been formally established for Cedar Landing.
the 1842 newspaper likely used the name Cedar Landing for a different landing site along the Ohio River.
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