New Carlisle and the Zoo

The zoo test: run whole, answered whole — there is no zoo, and there is the split to prove the asking was serious

the founding-mechanism split run as a negative

The zoo leg's floor requires the founding to be split three ways — menagerie, first animal, zoo-as-zoo — and the split is run here because a tested negative in the floor's own form outranks a shrug: (i) the menagerie or park-origin mechanism: no menagerie, deer park, animal collection or sanctuary ground of New Carlisle stands in the record reached; (ii) the first-animal date: none exists to date; (iii) the zoo-as-zoo opening: no zoo ever opened in this town, in any year, under any name. The region's zoo is South Bend's — the Potawatomi Zoo, whose whole course is the South Bend build's — and Olive Township's documented animal ground is of the opposite kind: a nature preserve where the animals are wild, protected and unfenced, at Spicer Lake (Recreation). The circus-day record that the Mishawaka running of this section keeps — the traveling menagerie's day in town — returns nothing for New Carlisle in the sources read and stands as a residue item with its settler, the town press runs, where a circus bill would have been posted. The leg completes at true size: the question was the county's standard question, the answer is no, and the no is documented.

Sources:

2. The South Bend build of this history (the Potawatomi Zoo, whole) — the region's zoo at boundary citation.
3. The searches run for a New Carlisle menagerie, collection or circus day — negative at the strengths stated; settler named in the article.