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LANDMARKS' FOOTPRINT IS SMALL AND SPECIFIC; THE ARCHIVE LIVES IN WALKERTON
Indiana Landmarks' hand on this ground is exactly three touches, no more. It co-installed the township's only state marker (the 2003 Porter (Rea) Cemetery marker, under its former name, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana — the cemeteries file carries the marker); it co-ran the county inventory that put the town's buildings in the state record (above); and its Northern Regional Office sits in South Bend — its office course (the Remedy Building from 2002; the Kizer House carriage house from 2017; and, per an Indiana Landmarks article of 29 April 2026, a further move into the rehabilitated Spenner Garage) is the regional footprint's whole documented course, and none of it touches North Liberty ground. Tested and not found: no Landmarks easement, holding, grant, revolving-fund action, or 10 Most Endangered listing for any North Liberty property, in any carrier reached — searched negatives at search strength. The local-organisation test is likewise negative, with the archive's real keeper named: no North Liberty historical society, town museum body, or local preservation organisation was found in any carrier reached. The town's historical archive is in practice kept outside the town, by the Walkerton Area Historical Society — which holds microfilm of the North Liberty News for 1912–1962 (and Walkerton's papers 1886–1996), holds the Park nomination's oral-history base (the Heim interviews of October 2005), and is cited outright in that federal nomination form; its museum line runs from the 1997 Heritage Room at the Walkerton Library, in a donated 1885 house, to the Walkerton Heritage Museum of 2023 in the former license-branch building. At county level, at pointer: the county library's Local & Family History department in South Bend holds the town's church records at one remove, and its North Liberty Branch holds no local-history collection at all (the banked libraries file settled that negatively). The finding prints plainly: the town itself keeps no archive and has no keeper body of its own in the record reached.
Indiana Landmarks carriers as cited (marker installation, §B.5 carriers, Indiana Preservation, May/June 2026, via search extract); Walkerton Area Historical Society digital-library page (via search extract); banked Sources and Libraries.