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The negatives: no building in the town, no library of its own, no Carnegie

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The system's complete present list and its timeline's branch foundings, read; the Carnegie item carried from the sibling pass at its strength

The system's own lists carry no Indian Village address. The complete present list — Main and nine branches — and the timeline's every named branch founding (River Park 1920, Tutt 1928, Western 1939, Clay/Francis 1977, North Liberty 1986, Lakeville 1990, Centre 1999, German 2009) name no building in the town. The verdict carries its limit printed: the timeline is proven incomplete — it omits the defunct Prairie Station (1941–1961, on Prairie Avenue, merged into Western), recovered in the sibling pass — and Prairie Station is likewise not on this town's ground, so the negative holds at system-list strength with its limit stated. No independent Indian Village library association, subscription library or reading room appears in any search; the only Library and Reading Room Association in this record is South Bend's of 1873. And the Carnegie question closes as the sibling pass closed it: the complete Indiana Carnegie gazetteer holds exactly two St. Joseph County entries — Mishawaka (1915) and New Carlisle (1917) — and none for South Bend, Indian Village or Clay Township.

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Source: The negatives: no building in the town, no library of its own, no Carnegie, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/indian-village/libraries/negatives-no-building-in-the-town-no-library-of/