Original Town of Kirksville

I keep pouring over E.M. Violette's History of Adair County (Journal Printing Company, Kirksville, Missouri, 1911). My eyes are drawn to the description of the original town of Kirksville:

The original town of forty acres as the surveyors laid it out, was bounded on the north by what is now Missouri Street, on the west by High Street, on the south by McPherson Street, and on the west by Main Street (page 346).