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ROW 640 · LEG 95 ITEM 5 · NOVEMBER 2026
The two waves are a generation apart, and this town sat out both of them — the first as a finding, the second as a boundary fact. First wave. The national craze of about 1930, when thousands of courses were laid in a single season, left no named course in Osceola in the directories or the Tribune and Enterprise amusement listings as reached: no proprietor, no lot, no opening notice. The row instructs that the missing local names print as a finding, and they do: the first miniature-golf craze is documented nationally and in the valley's cities, and for this town its names are missing because, on the record reached, there was no course to name. Second wave. The branded course of the pattern is real and datable, but it is Mishawaka's: the Putt-Putt at 3615 North Main Street, Mishawaka — the franchise form founded by Don Clayton at Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1954 — whose present 54-hole course opened in 1979 after its original 36-hole facility closed in 1978, carried in the Mishawaka build and printed here at boundary size only, as the ground Osceola families drove to. No second-wave course seated inside Osceola is documented at any date.
Closure: DUG — wave one prints as a named absence for this town; wave two prints as the Mishawaka Putt-Putt course of 1979 at boundary; no course of either wave seats in Osceola.