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1929–2026 · ONE TESTED NEGATIVE
A Lakeville driver's first license was issued where a counter existed — the county seat, later Walkerton or Plymouth — never in town,G-BMV-7). The one beat that could have put the state physically in town was tested expressly, against the town's actual candidate venues: the travelling examiner — a State Police or Bureau exam post sitting periodically at Lakeville, at the town hall, a school, or the Legion. The search anchored on the town returned place records for American Legion Post 363 and Lakeville Town Hall as places, but no record of any kind links either venue, or the school, to an exam post: no exam-day notice, no post listing, no press item. The negative stands at search strength, its settler the town paper's file and the State Police post records (gap G-BMV-7). Modern practice explains its plausibility, at the Bureau's own first-hand word: testing lives inside the branches — "No one besides the BMV examiner is allowed in your vehicle when you take the driving test," the skills exam may be taken "at a branch" when applying, and knowledge exams stand among the branch transactions on the Bureau's branch-visit page; the Walkerton counter's own service list (written and road tests included) rides at pointer strength in its home build. The beats close where the verdict opened: licensing touched this town at its edges, through its mail, its notaries, and its drives to other towns' desks.