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South Bend Events History

The days the city gathered and changed: the events calendar and the major events.

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§ 36South Bend Events: The Days the City GatheredSouth Bend's history can be read in its gatherings. The county fair drew the whole county to a succession of grounds for a hundred and seventy-five years; the city dressed itself for pageants and centennials; presidents…18 entry pages § 37Major Events in South Bend History: The Days the City ChangedMost of a city's history is accumulation; a small part of it is rupture. This section keeps the ruptures: the nights and weeks after which South Bend was measurably a different place — a train in a ravine, a wagon works…16 entry pages § 102South Bend Fairs: The County Fair and the Ones Before ItFairs · The county fair, from the courthouse lawn to Ironwood and JacksonA fair, in the form Indiana invented it, is a judged exhibition of a county's work: animals, crops, preserves and needlework entered for premiums, with a racetrack and a midway gathered around the judging. South Bend's…13 entry pages

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Source: South Bend Events History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/topics/events/

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