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ITEM 2 · THE PRINCESS CITY IS MISHWAKA'S; THE HEARTLAND NAME IS OTHERS' (ITEM 10, COVERED)
The checklist opens the synthesis with the name a place answers to — and Walkerton's test returns the rarest of its results: no civic nickname, chosen or imposed, is documented for this town at any date. The county's famous case is next door: Mishawaka's "Princess City," a name with a legend and a coining, told whole in that city's build. For Walkerton the record offers no equivalent — no princess, no capital-of-anything, no booster coinage in the canvasses, the press record, or the town's own seal-and-letterhead life as reached; the names the town does answer to are functional (the town, the Falcons' town, John Glenn country in the school era) and the one literary name in its file, Hoganson's "heartland" framing of the LaFeber country, is a name others gave its landscape, scored COVERED by the audit and printed at its place in Notable People's course. The item closes DUG as a negative with its value stated: a town that never branded itself is itself a cultural datum — Walkerton's identity in the record is carried by institutions (the school, the museum, the fair relation) rather than by a slogan, and the synthesis articles below are built accordingly.
Principal sources: the canvasses and press record as reached (no coinage); the Princess City record at boundary size; Notable People (the heartland naming on its carrier).