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Between the Playland years and the Lakeville years; exact years not stated by the carrier
The fair board's own published history of its grounds gives the North Liberty chapter in one entry, and it is quoted here at its full size. In the sequence of the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair's official "History of the Grounds" (read at 4hfair.com in November 2026), after the Interstate Fair's run at Springbrook Park to 1925 and the starting of vocational agriculture in the township schools, the entry reads: "Fair was moved to North Liberty where the Old Hinkel and Masonic Buildings were used. Cattle was shown in the street. Expenses for the fair was paid by the Chamber of Commerce, Township Schools, Farm Bureau, County Commissioners and County Council." The entry carries no year in the text as published — the fair's timeline prints its years in a form the text layer does not carry — and this section does not supply one. The shape is nonetheless plain: a county fair with no fairground, borrowing a merchant's building and the Masonic hall, stalling its beef cattle on the town's street, and underwritten by every public and farm body the town could assemble. That is this town's fair, whole, at the size its own institution records it.