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INCORPORATED 1886 · 2506 GRAPE ROAD
The premise, corrected: The institution the whole county assumes is South Bend's stands in Mishawaka, and has for a hundred and forty years. The Humane Society of St. Joseph County — the county's humane society, incorporated in 1886 — is seated at 2506 Grape Road, in Mishawaka, and for roughly sixty years it was the county's animal-control agency besides: the county's stray dogs, cruelty cases and impoundments ran through a Mishawaka address while the institution's name said only the county. The Local Animals section works the society whole — its founding among the city's first charities, its Grape Road seat, its animal-control decades — and prints the correction at the head, because the assumption runs the other way in nearly every telling: "the county humane society is seated in Mishawaka." It pairs, in this drawer, with the negative in the ledger below: the city that houses the county's shelter has no zoo of its own, and never has — the Zoo section's test is a whole-file negative. Mishawaka keeps the county's lost animals. It keeps no exhibited ones.
Sources: the Local Animals section of this history — the Humane Society of St. Joseph County: incorporated 1886; seated at 2506 Grape Road, Mishawaka; the county's animal-control agency for roughly sixty years; the Zoo section — the zoo test, negative whole.