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The Zoo · No Zoo on This Ground, and the Zoo Osceola Uses
The test, whole: no zoo has ever stood in Osceola or Penn Township
ROWS #613–#616 · LEG 92 ITEMS 1–4 · AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
The first question is tested, not assumed: no zoo, menagerie, sanctuary, zoological society or animal collection of record has ever stood inside the town of Osceola. The audit that opened this section ran the test itself — a…
The candidate grounds, and the pre-zoo years that are not here
ROWS #617–#618 · LEG 92 ITEMS 5–6 · THE GROUND TEST
A zoo needs ground, and this town's candidate grounds are known: Ferrettie / Baugo Creek County Park on the town's edge, the town's own park ground, and the fairground line the Fairs leg carries. None carries a deer park, animal…
The ground and the three foundings — Potawatomi Park, Leeper Park 1902, Potawatomi 1921
ROWS #614–#617 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED · SOUTH BEND'S WHOLE
The zoo Osceola uses stands at 500 South Greenlawn Avenue, South Bend, in Potawatomi Park, between the St. Joseph River and the Grand Trunk railroad. The Parks Department's chronology dates the park to 1905; on 3 April 1906 the…
The relief-era house and the 1947 inventory
ROW #618 · LEG 92 ITEM 6 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED
The pre-modern zoo was a small, hardy collection in one relief-built house: the Works Progress Administration built the Cat House, the zoo's first permanent structure — dated 1936 in the zoo's own timeline (“known as the WPA…
The society and the money — 1971, admission 1981, takeover 1 January 2014
ROW #619 · LEG 92 ITEM 7 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED
No zoological society touches Osceola ground; the society that runs Osceola's zoo is South Bend's: in 1971 the Friends of the Zoo organized — carried formally as the St. Joseph Zoological Society, Craig D. McCowan its first…
Accreditation — continuously since 1987, renewed 17 September 2025
ROW #620 · LEG 92 ITEM 8 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED
Osceola holds no accreditation because it holds no zoo; the boundary course is this: first accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 1987, and continuously since — the AZA's inaugural Quarter Century Award roll…
The expansion eras, one by one — and a pattern corrected
ROW #621 · LEG 92 ITEM 9 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED · REBUILDS DISTINGUISHED FROM FIRST BUILDS
First, the correction: “Australian Adventure 1987” is not a Potawatomi era. Australian Adventure and African Journey are the Fort Wayne zoo's named realms, in that city's build, verified against Fort Wayne's own record and…
Animals of record — and the devils placed where they belong
ROW #622 · LEG 92 ITEM 10 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED
The Tasmanian devils first, because the checklist names them and they are not this zoo's: the North American devil record — twelve devils housed 1987–2004, more than any other North American zoo, and Coolah, the last devil living…
Fire, escapes and loss the record gives them
ROW #623 · LEG 92 ITEM 11 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED · OSCEOLA HALF TESTED NEGATIVE
For Osceola the row closes with the verdict: no collection stood here, so no fire, escape or animal loss on this ground stands in any record reached. For the boundary zoo the record reached is small and prints whole. Its one…
Attendance and honors, dated
ROW #624 · LEG 92 ITEM 12 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED
No Osceola zoo drew a crowd or took an honor; the boundary zoo publishes its own count, printed dated, as the zoo gives it: 2010, 185,000; 2011, 198,000; 2012, 203,898; 2013, 205,758; 2014, 207,000 (the takeover year); 2015…
“Indiana's oldest zoo,” tested — and the name course, with the 2025 date corrected
ROWS #625–#626 · LEG 92 ITEMS 13–14 · BOUNDARY-PRINTED
Osceola has no oldest-zoo claim — no zoo, no claim. The boundary claim is examined, not repeated: Potawatomi's director stated it in the 1902 form in January 2020 (“started in 1902 as a duck pond in Leeper Park and is the oldest…
The zoo in Osceola's school life, and the zoo today
ROW #627 · LEG 92 ITEM 15 · VERIFIED TO NOVEMBER 2026
Osceola's zoo life is a bus ride west, printed at exactly that strength: the town's own school is Moran Elementary, the Penn-Harris-Madison school built as Moran School in 1951 on its 33-acre site (the Schools section's record…
Zoo: Not Found and Still Open
THE RECORD AS IT STANDS · NOVEMBER 2026
What this section could not settle is named, with the source that settles each item: