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Events — Lakeville
The county fair is not this town's to tell — its fairground stands on South Bend's ground and its course is South Bend's file — so Lakeville's events record is its own smaller, exact set: a centennial in 2002 that the county's plan preserved when the town itself kept almost nothing, a festival with an older life that lapsed and was re-established in the Bicentennial year, and a young modern calendar the town built for itself between 2016 and 2025, most of it now standing at its tenth year. The political-visit shelf is empty and prints empty. What follows is the whole of it, each gathering dated and sourced.
The centennial: 2002
2002
A parade, a festival, fireworks — and a quilt for a publication record. The town was incorporated in 1902, and its centennial year was kept: the county's 2011 Comprehensive Plan records that "a large Centennial celebration was…
The recurring gathering: the Lakeville Fall Festival
Before the lapse · revived 2016 · tenth year 2025
The town's own institution: an older festival that lapsed for decades, re-established with the Bicentennial Torch Run. The modern festival is a re-establishment, not a founding: the South Bend Brownfield Coalition's account of 8…
The modern calendar the town built, and its verification
2016–2026 · verified to November 2026
Five recurring gatherings in nine years, all on the town's own site — the calendar as verified. Alongside the Fall Festival, the town's own published record builds the present calendar piece by piece, and this closing article…
The banked events file carries the town's centennial of 2002 and its revived Fall Festival whole, and the memorials file tested the homecomings and found none. Two gathering forms on the checklist were never tested: the historic pageant, and the delegation-type gathering. This addendum runs both tests and prints what they return.
No pageant in the record: the gathering forms tested
Tested November 2026 · the banked events and memorials passes; the open web record of the town
Indiana's towns staged their histories in pageants by the hundred in the pageant era — and Lakeville, on every carrier reached, was not one of them. The form was real and near: the state's 1916 centennial produced local…