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Indiana Landmarks Northern Regional Office record, 2017–2026; Clio African American Landmarks tour; League of Women Voters of the South Bend Area history
The advocacy layer for this county is real, old, and seated eleven miles north. Indiana Landmarks — founded in 1960 as the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, renamed in 2010, the largest private statewide preservation organisation in the country — keeps its Northern Regional Office in South Bend, moved in 2017 to the 1885 Kizer House on West Washington Street, from which it works this county's preservation cases; the town's own preservation fact, the 1931 school's Register listing of 29 August 1991, stands in this history. The South Bend branch of the NAACP was founded in 1919, at the church that became Pilgrim Baptist — recorded on the Civil Rights Heritage Center's landmarks tour — and the Urban League of South Bend and St. Joseph County is documented in the same archive by 1966. The League of Women Voters of the South Bend Area carries its own printed history: a 1920s beginning, a silent stretch from 1966 to 1969, and a formal restart on 15 December 1969. None of these bodies is seated in Lakeville or holds a Lakeville chapter in the records reached; they print at county size, as the working advocacy structure of the county the town belongs to.