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Two of Lakeville's famous locations are famous without a ground a visitor can stand on, and this article frames them as the checklist's no-ground case, expressly. The first is Earl's tavern site: a documented stand on the Michigan Road, fixed by the record to its place in the road's course, carrying in-town fame as the road's named stop — and carrying no monument, no marker, no building, and no surviving fabric; the site is documented, the ground is unmarked. The second is the Huggart Settlement: a settlement of state-record fame, with a state marker — and the ground itself is farmland again; what a visitor finds is a road, a marker's text, and fields where a community stood, its burying ground preserved separately inside a state park. A third, smaller instance rides in the banked roll: the Michigan Street postcard view, famous as an image, whose defining feature — the width and the two-railroad crossing — no longer exists on the ground the postcard shows. The Bendix Field form of the test — a name the world knows pinned to a field that cannot be found — is therefore answered for Lakeville in its local forms: fame carried by documents, images and markers over ground that has returned to ordinary use. Printed as such, as the floor requires, and not dressed as sites.