The armories as a succession: none in Osceola, ever — the county's succession runs at South Bend, from the Sample Street armory to Kemble Avenue to Rose Street

The town's own clause — Osceola "kept no armory" — was tested against the Guard's own station record and holds: the Indiana National Guard's published armory and community listings, read for this section in November 2026, seat no armory, readiness center or Guard facility in Osceola or Penn Township's Osceola ground, and no armory appears for the town in any other source reached. The county succession that serves this ground stands at South Bend, at boundary size: (1) the State Armory displaced in the early 1960s by the Sample Street Bridge project — the city ordinance recites that construction and reconstruction of the bridge made it "necessary for the State Armory to plan removal of their facilities to another location," the neighboring U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Training Center displaced with it; (2) the Kemble Avenue armory site: by Ordinance No. 4561-63, passed 11 March 1963, South Bend donated 26.629 acres between Bruce and Donald streets, Kemble Avenue and Webster Street, to the State of Indiana "for its use in the erection of an Armory" — the Guard's South Bend ground for the following half-century, with National Guard recruiting still at 1901 Kemble Avenue today; (3) the Rose Street armory, 2402 East Rose Street (the CPT Lyle J. Thompson U.S. Army Reserve Center), vacant for almost four years and under renovation from late 2025 — preconstruction October 2025, work from December 2025, completion aimed at March 2026 — to house a 130-soldier Indiana Army National Guard engineering company. Mishawaka's line prints beside it at the sister build's verdict: the armory Mishawaka never had, tested absence there too. The succession therefore runs: no Osceola armory at any date; the county's armories at South Bend in the order above; present use as stated, verified November 2026.

Sources: City of South Bend, Ordinance No. 4561-63 (11 March 1963) (the Sample Street displacement recital; the 26.629-acre Kemble Avenue conveyance, bounds as quoted); Military Department of Indiana, "Indiana National Guard in Your Community" and National Guard recruiting listings (1901 Kemble Ave., active), read November 2026; F.H. Paschen, project report on the South Bend Armory renovation, 2402 E. Rose St. (vacancy, the engineering company, the October 2025–March 2026 schedule), published January 2026 (read for this November 2026 build frame as the renovation's published record).