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1933 – 2026
North Liberty has never, in the reached record, performed itself on an anniversary. The events file tests the point whole: no celebration of the settlement centennial of 1933, the plat centennials of 1936–37, or the incorporation centennial of 1994 appears in any carrier searched, across three passes. The performance the town does stage is annual rather than centennial — the Potato Creek & Lions Strawberry Festival, the merged gathering of the town's Potato Creek Festival (from about 1977, tied to the state recreation area's opening) and the Greene Township Lions Club's fifty-year Strawberry Festival, held downtown on the second weekend of June and carried whole in the events file. A strawberry shortcake line, a Lions train, potato doughnuts from Masonic Lodge #266, and, in June 2026, county and congressional candidates working the crowd, as the South Bend Tribune reported it — that is the town's civic theatre, at its true scale.