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Preservation with its hands on: South Bend Heritage, and the town's own society at its true size

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1974–NOVEMBER 2026 · SOUTH BEND (BOUNDARY) AND OSCEOLA

Boundary — the working organisation, at the size of its actual work: the organisation the West Washington fight produced was established in July 1974 as the Southold Heritage Foundation, Inc. (articles of incorporation dated 11 July 1974; state certificate 9 July 1974), later renamed South Bend Heritage Foundation — a 501(c)(3) community development corporation headquartered at 803 Lincolnway West, South Bend, running on an annual budget of roughly $7 million, a chartered NeighborWorks member since 2006. Its preservation work is hands-on in the pattern the checklist means: it holds and rehabs houses in the West Washington and neighbouring districts, took the Engman Natatorium when no one else would and carried it to its 2010 reopening (the repair case told whole in art-66-8), and stands as the county's standing proof that a preservation organisation is a landlord and builder, not a plaque committee.History of Osceola (1988) — the register line in the banked sources fragment gives the society at Box 14, Osceola, ruled January 1997 — and as nothing else: no rescue, no holding, no rehab and no designation campaign by the society appears in any source reached. That is not a criticism dressed as a finding; it is the size of the record. NAMED GAP residue: the society's own present state — membership, holdings, activity in 2026 — is not in the open record; settler: the society's own records and the Tribune's community record.

Sources: South Bend Heritage Foundation, organisational record and Indiana incorporation record (Southold Heritage Foundation, Inc., July 1974), read November 2026; banked sources fragment and fairs-civic fragment for the Osceola Historical Society register line.

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Source: Preservation with its hands on: South Bend Heritage, and the town's own society at its true size, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/historic-preservation/preservation-with-its-hands-on-south-bend-heritage-and/