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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 November 2016 calls that year's event "Lakeville's first Fall Festival in decades," held "in conjunction with the Indiana Bicentennial Torch Run" on property acquired with brownfield assessment work — "a town wide parade, historical re-enactments, area church choir groups singing and various craft and food vendors," closing, "The Lakeville Fall Festival is now re-established." The Lakeville Lions Club's October 2016 newsletter thanks the members "who made the Lakeville Fall Festival/Bicentennial Torch Run a success" — the pancake breakfast, parade and open house among them — and the town's own site lists "Created Lakeville Fall Festival" among its 2016 works. The course since is the town's own counting: under 2025, "Lakeville Fall Festival hits 10 year mark!" — counting 2016 as year one, the tenth year, exactly as Pass 1's spine carried it. Of an eleventh edition, one weak carrier only — an AI-aggregated meeting summary reporting organizers telling a board on 18 September 2026 of some 48 vendors committed for a 10 October festival — is reported's note and NOT carried here: no town, county, Lions or newspaper carrier read confirms the 2026 edition, and the file does not print it as held. An auction listing for carnival chalkware marked "Fall Festival Lakeville, Indiana 1952," a single commercial sighting, hints at the festival's older life and is carried as a hint only, in the note.