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November 2026 · garden-tractor registers and trade record searched in this section; Polk 1916–17; 1920s–1940s gazetteers named as settlers
No garden tractor was built in Lakeville either — the Wheel Horse pattern belongs to South Bend, the Garden-All dispute to Mishawaka's ground, and neither is imported to fill this town's line. The garden-tractor test runs the exception whole where it exists; here it does not exist. The garden-tractor registers and trade searches run in this section returned no Lakeville, Indiana maker in any era — the forty-year garden-tractor manufacture of this county is Wheel Horse's, seated at South Bend and owned whole in South Bend's build, and the contested Garden-All manufacture claim, with both sides' evidence, is the Mishawaka running's, printed there. The contested-claim limb of this section therefore prints as a tested negative for Lakeville: no disputed garden-tractor manufacture claim naming this town was found in the trade press or registers searched, and no claim is manufactured here to be disputed. A 1920s–1940s branch-house canvass at record strength banks as the limb's residue, its settlers the 1920s–1940s Polk gazetteers and dealer records, none yet read first-hand for Lakeville.