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1841–present · Howard (1907); St. Joseph County 4-H Fair, history page (4hfair.com), read first-hand; Indiana Magazine of History via Indiana Public Media
The fair's course and grounds belong to South Bend's file; the dated pointer line runs: organised fairs from 1841 (the fair's own history page); the Agricultural Society reorganised 15 March 1858; the county bought 40 acres on 20 April 1881 between South Bend and Mishawaka; the Northern Indiana Agricultural Society formed 3 February 1881; the name St. Joseph County Agricultural Society was restored by a new society 31 March 1899; the society surrendered the grounds 4 June 1903; custody passed to the City of South Bend 3 April 1906 and the grounds became Potawatomi Park (all Howard). Then the record exceeds the pointer for this township — and this section prints it at its carrier's strength, flagged here as a deliberate departure from the checklist's pointer prescription, because the fair's own carrier documents a Lakeville hosting period that is Union Township's own record. The 4-H Fair's history page continues the sequence, printing no years for its middle items, and none are supplied here: after the park period and a 1st Interstate Fair at Playland Park (to 1925), "Fair moved to North Liberty where the Old Hinkel and Masonic Buildings were used. Cattle was shown in the street." Then: "Fair was moved to Lakeville. Livestock was housed in tents, Home Economic projects at elementary building. Beef Cattle were auctioned. An amusement area consisted of Ferris Wheel, Whip, Merry-go-around." Then: "Fair utilized the Union Township High School and grounds. 1941… Brother Leo from Notre Dame Farms formed a committee to purchase lottery calves. 10 cents was charged for admission for adults and children over 12." Then: "Lakeville Lions took over from the Lakeville Business men's Association the responsibility for putting on the fair with the St. Joe County Ag. Society." Then back to Playland Park, incorporation as the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair, and the purchase of 40 acres at Ironwood and Jackson in South Bend — the present grounds, one of only two privately owned fairgrounds in Indiana by the page's account. The sequence places the Lakeville move after North Liberty and before the item dated 1941; that is as far as the carrier goes, and the missing years stand missing.
The South Bend Farmer's Market stands at pointer only, as the checklist prescribes: begun 1911 at the Colfax Street bridge; year-round, three days a week; over 100 sellers by the early 1920s; two moves to larger quarters in the 1920s, to the present Northside Boulevard site in late 1928. Its fire date is a genuine conflict, printed whole: the Indiana Magazine of History account says that "after a 1970 fire" the market "emerged in 1972 in a new building"; market tradition as carried in the North Liberty file dates the fire to September 1971 and the present building's opening to 14 December 1972. The 1972 rebuilding is common to both; the fire year is not settled here.