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THE BOUNDARY FRAME · 1841–2026
No county fair has ever stood on Walkerton's ground in any record reached, and the town's own fair-type ground tests negative below: the St. Joseph County fair's whole course — the courthouse-yard exhibition of 1841, the reorganized society of 1851, the Washington Street and Portage Avenue grounds, the forty acres between the cities that became Potawatomi Park, and the modern 4-H fair on its grounds at Ironwood and Jackson, billed in 2026 as the 101st annual — is South Bend's to tell whole. This section prints what belongs to Walkerton under the leg rule: the township's own share, at boundary size — its one agricultural exposition held under the town's own name, its 4-H club and the club's register seat, its festival course on its oldest park ground, and the state-fair and world's-fair tests run and printed with their results. Anything more would be another city's history re-told, and duplication is a defect.
Principal sources: Chapman, History of St. Joseph County (1880), ch. XIII, as read first-hand in the Mishawaka running; Howard, History of St. Joseph County (1907), vol. 1, ch. VII §1; St. Joseph County 4-H Fair, the fair's own account (2026); this build's parks pass (the fairground test).