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1885–2026 · BOUNDARY: THE NESTS NAMED ONE BY ONE; THIS GROUND'S THINNER LAYER AT ITS SIZE
The nests, named individually as the checklist requires — and every one of them South Bend's: the M.R. Falcons — the Mieczysław Romanowski Falcons, organised in South Bend in 1894 in the county's immigrant-societies record — seated as Nest 4 at 3212 Keller Street, the hall that hosted the West Side Democratic & Civic Club's Dyngus Day in April 2026; the Z.B. Falcons, Nest 80, carried in the same county record and on the Dyngus circuit's schedule; the West Side Democratic & Civic Club itself, at 617 South Warren Street, the Polish west side's political clubhouse; and behind them the thinner strata of the same record — the Polish Central Civic Committee of the 1930s–1950s, the Polish Turnverein, and Howard's 1907 census line for the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1 of St. Joseph County, founded January 1885. That is the ethnic/national layer at full size, and it is the county seat's entire: a Polish, Irish and German club city built by the factory wards. Tested against this ground, the layer thins to what the register and the county histories actually show: no Falcons nest, no democratic-and-civic club, no Hibernian division and no Turner society is named for Osceola or Penn Township in the register read whole or in Chapman (1880) or Howard (1907) — the register's ethnic layer on this ground stands only as church and labor lines in its rings (the congregations of Churches & Religion; the union locals seated at officers' homes, ruled 1940–1957, in this history's postal ring). The Breezers-class social club of the template likewise has no Osceola counterpart in any record reached. A farm township's immigrants organised through their churches and their union locals, not through nests and halls, and the leg prints the thinner layer at its true thinner size.
From the St. Joseph County immigrant-societies record (sites.rootsweb.com/~instjose: M.R. Falcons, South Bend, 1894; Z. B. Falcons Nest 80; the West Side Democratic Club; the Polish Central Civic Committee; the Polish Turnverein); the Tribune, 7 April 2026, and WNDU, 3 April 2026 (M.R. Falcons Nest #4, 3212 Keller Street); Howard (1907), society census (Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1, founded January 1885 — transcription strength). The home-ground test: this history's register read whole against Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), as described.