The museum that left, the university museums at the boundary, and the county line stated once

LEG 27 · ITEM 12 · RUN B #139 · CLOSING ARTICLE OF THE LEG

The county's departed museum is the College Football Hall of Fame, and its South Bend era is a whole era, not a footnote: founded by the National Football Foundation in 1951, the Hall first built at Kings Mills, Ohio (opened 1978, closed 1992), then came to a new building in downtown South Bend, opened 25 August 1995 — sited, in the Foundation's hope, on Notre Dame's doorstep. Attendance never carried it; in September 2009 the Foundation announced the move to Atlanta, the South Bend museum closed in December 2012, and the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame opened in Atlanta on 23 August 2014, in a $68.5 million building nearly twice the South Bend one's size; the Foundation's own anniversary account records that the Hall "left its city with $3 million in outstanding bond payments." The era is told at boundary size; its building is treated as a location in the famous-locations addendum (item 6).

The university museums at the boundary, named once: Notre Dame's art museum succeeded itself on 1 December 2023, when the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art — 70,000 square feet, a collection of more than 30,000 works with origins in 1875 — opened at the campus gateway and the Snite Museum of Art closed at the end of 2023; IU South Bend's museum presence is the Civil Rights Heritage Center of item 9. Both are their universities' seats, at Notre Dame and in South Bend — boundary institutions for this ground, not Penn Township's.

The county line, stated once for this section: of the museums this section has named, the seated institutions are South Bend's (The History Museum and its houses and cabin, the Studebaker National Museum, the South Bend Museum of Art, the Civil Rights Heritage Center, the Indiana Dinosaur Museum, the children's museums, the chocolate museum) and Mishawaka's (the Hannah Lindahl, the Mishawaka Historical Museum). The Town of Osceola seats no museum of any size in any record this section reached. What Osceola holds instead is a society without a museum building (item 1), a history held in another city's museum (item 5), and a share — real but undivided — in the county institutions its people's taxes, visits and donations have always crossed the township line to use. That distribution is not an omission in the record; it is the record, and this section prints it as its closing finding.

Verdict, item 12 — DUG (the departed museum and the boundary article told whole; the county-line finding stated).

Sources: College Football Hall of Fame, "History of the Hall" (cfbhall.com — Kings Mills 1978–1992; South Bend 1995–2012; Atlanta opened 2014); National Football Foundation anniversary account, Aug 2024 (South Bend opened 25 Aug 1995; Atlanta 23 Aug 2014; $68.5M; $3M bond residue); Raclin Murphy Museum of Art (raclinmurphymuseum.nd.edu — opened 1 Dec 2023; Snite closed end of 2023; origins 1875). Searches run 11 Nov 2026.