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The YWCA test: a county institution since 1903, no Lakeville branch

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1903–present · YWCA of North Central Indiana

The YWCA was never addressed in the banked build; here it is, at its county size. The YWCA of North Central Indiana has served since 1903, headquartered at 1102 South Fellows Street, South Bend, with service sites across St. Joseph and Elkhart Counties: two emergency domestic-violence shelters, sexual-assault services, chemical-dependency services, and economic-empowerment programmes — the county's standing women's-services institution, older than any other named in this build's women's file, and the organisation against which a township branch would have to be found. None was. No Lakeville branch, Lakeville membership roll, or Union Township programme of the YWCA was found in the association's own record or any other carrier searched. The test therefore closes as a documented county institution with a township negative: Union Township women were served, if at all, at the South Bend address, an eight-mile trip on the Michigan Road — the same geography that governs this build's transit file. The settler stands named and current for any larger claim: the YWCA of North Central Indiana's own branch and membership records.

Principal sources: YWCA of North Central Indiana, the association's own published record (first-hand).

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Source: The YWCA test: a county institution since 1903, no Lakeville branch, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/womens-history/ywca-test-a-county-institution-since-1903-no-lakeville/