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grants 1901 – 1918 · branch 1990
No Lakeville library was Carnegie-funded; the test was run, and the county's Carnegie library stands in Mishawaka, in a different district. Indiana's Carnegie grants ran 1901–1918 (156 grants, buildings completed to 1922, on the State Library's own blog), and Lakeville's first public library of any kind found in this research opened in 1990 — seven decades after the program ended, with no predecessor institution in town at the strength searched for a grant to have attached to. The system's own history page carries no Carnegie mention for Lakeville, for Main, or for any branch. The St. Joseph County Carnegie building the record does carry is Mishawaka's: the Old Mishawaka Carnegie Library, 122 North Hill, built 1916 on a $30,000 grant, Register-listed in 1998, no longer a public library — Mishawaka-Penn-Harris district ground, and its fact is not transferred to Lakeville or to this system. The namesake trap prints with the negative, because it will catch a future searcher: Lakeville does stand in the Carnegie lists — Lakeville, Massachusetts, granted $5,000 on 13 July 1912 for 241 Main St, whose board was still receiving Carnegie Corporation commemorative gifts in 2025. Any "Carnegie gift to Lakeville" hit must be checked for its state before it is used. Certainty beyond web-search strength banks as a gap on the full Indiana gazetteer checked entry by entry; the statement above stands at the strength searched.