The candidate grounds, and the pre-zoo years that are not here

ROWS 5–6 · THE GROUND TEST

A zoo needs ground, and this place's candidate grounds are known whole — which is what makes the negative worth printing: Harris Township Park on Brummitt Road (30 acres) and the Elm Road park are trustee-built recreation grounds — courts, diamonds, playgrounds, a pavilion — with no deer park, animal house or keeping record in the trustee's own accounts. The county's Anderson Road ground (115 acres in the county record; “100+ acres” in the trustee's 2022 account — the conflict stands in the Parks leg) was cash-rented farmland and storage for some twenty-five years after the county acquired it in 1999, and the park now building there is a park, not a zoo. Clay Township keeps no park at all. The fair and circus record points the same way: the county fair's grounds and the railroad circuses' stands stood in South Bend, and the Fairs leg's circus-field test for this ground is likewise negative — the shows stopped at the cities, and the townships went to them.

Row 6 asks for pre-zoo menagerie years — sanctuary years, a first inventory, a relief-era animal house. On this ground there are none: no sanctuary or refuge keeping exhibited animals is named for Clay or Harris in any record reached; no inventory exists because no collection existed; and no WPA animal house stands here — the relief-built cat house of this county is South Bend's, boundary-printed below. A farm township's barns of its own stock are not a menagerie, and this section does not promote them into one. TESTED NEGATIVE on both rows.

Sources:

1. Parks leg of this build and EXPAND-PARKS-CEMETERIES-NOTE — the Brummitt, Elm Road and Anderson Road courses whole; the Clay-side test negative.