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THE RECORD AS IT STANDS · NOVEMBER 2026
TESTED NEGATIVE — a World's Fair exhibit from this ground (row 6). Searched: the Indiana commission record as published in the magazine-history literature; Howard's fairs passage and township record; the state record's exhibits named by town. GAP-FR96-1 — exhibitor-roll strength. The commission's own published report and the exposition's official catalogues list exhibitors at a granularity the summaries do not reach; a Clay or Harris exhibitor at that depth is neither documented nor finally excluded. Settlers: the Report of the Board of World's Fair Managers of Indiana (1894) and the exposition's official exhibit catalogues (Indiana State Library; archive.org); the South Bend Tribune's 1892–93 fair correspondence.
TESTED NEGATIVE — a circus field on this ground (row 9). Searched: the Circus Historical Society's Ringling route lists, 1904–1911 read whole; the record and notes ("circus" in none); Chapman, Howard and the atlas as read for this build. GAP-FR96-2 — the smaller shows. The route lists read are one great show's; the smaller railroad and wagon circuses that played county lots (the Wallace and Sells-Floto class) keep their own route books, not all digitized, and a one-day stand on a township lot by a small show is the class of event least likely to reach the record reached. Settlers: the circus route-book collection (Illinois State University / DPLA); the Dunkle Collection's local files (Saint Mary's College Archives); the Tribune's circus-day coverage.
NOT REOPENED.