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808 W. Washington St, South Bend
The county historian's own files survive as the Jeanne Denham Collection at The History Museum — eighty-one archival boxes, indexed online, and searched for Lakeville at snippet strength. The index, posted by the South Bend Area Genealogical Society, states what the collection is: materials Jeanne Denham (born 11 October 1922 in Minneapolis; married Dr. Robert H. Denham Jr. on 22 July 1949 and moved to South Bend; first president of the genealogical society) compiled over more than thirty years as the county's unofficial and official historian, indexed by a society member's granddaughter interning at the museum, and transferred to the museum on Denham's death, 27 July 2012; use is by appointment, specifying item and box number, by the access instructions the index page itself prints (no office was contacted). The box descriptions surfaced — local pamphlets and maps; Mishawaka preservation and real-estate material; St. Joseph County title abstracts; Turner's 1867 Gazetteer of St. Joseph Valley; church manuscripts; the Old Courthouse News run; land-history and family notes weighted to South Bend's West Washington district; clipping files — name no Lakeville or Union Township item, and a site search of the index surfaced none. The check is strong but not whole: a direct open of the index page was stopped by a verification screen, and its content was reached through the page's own snippets. The whole-read banks as a named gap — the index page read entire, or the box list read at the museum — and until it lands, the collection stands as: indexed, searched at snippet strength, no Lakeville item named.