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The tales in this section survive because two keepers keep them, and both are named and dated here, as of November 2026. The archive keeper is the Osceola Historical Society. Its two dates print together and unmerged, because they measure different things: the society is the publisher of the town's history, J. Harold Kiracofe's History of Osceola (1988), the book this build names as settler for every gap its open record cannot close — cataloged at the Indiana State Library as 977.201 S143zok, held also in the local-history collections this build's keeper list names (the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library local history room, The History Museum, and the St. Joseph County Public Library) — while the federal civic register dates the corporation's tax exemption to a ruling of January 1997The 1988 publication predates the 1997 ruling, and the pair is printed as the record gives it: a society publishing its town's history nine years before its exemption was ruled is a sequence, not a contradiction, and neither date is silently moved to meet the other. The society's manuscript predecessor also survives in the keeping chain: Kiracofe's “The History of Osceola, Indiana,” internally dated January 1968 and held at The History Museum, is the text behind the town's published history page (September 15, 2014), used in this build at manuscript strength. The schoolyard keeper is Moran Elementary School, 305 North Beech Road, in the Penn-Harris-Madison corporation — the school built in 1951 as Moran School, the upper-elementary half of the banked pair with the 1914 Osceola School, and the seat of the local-history tradition the Schools section records: the township's own past taught where the township's children sit, in a school whose very name is a plat-era addition name carried forward. As of November 2026 the school stands under Principal Lisa Russell, verified in this build's current-today record on November 11, 2026 — a dated line, printed because keepers change and the as-of is the discipline. Between the society's book and the school's classrooms, the telling has a filing system: print for the archive, recitation for the schoolyard, and this build's gaps routed to the book by call number.
Sources: IRS exempt-organizations register entry, Osceola Historical Society Inc. Read November 2026.