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TESTED · THE NEGATIVES PRINTED WHOLE
Three tests close the fairs section, each printed with its searched record. The fairground test is negative. The parks pass ran it at full strength for this build: "no fairground, driving park, picnic grove, or Chautauqua ground for Walkerton or Lincoln Township was found in any openly reachable source, and the pioneer [record prints none]" — the town's historic park record begins with a budget line of September 1, 1932 (a Park fund, a Recreation fund, and an "Imp. Place Park" improvement levy), not with a grove or a gift. No street fair seated in Walkerton is documented in any record reached either; the festival course above is park-ground, not street-ground. The settlers for any contrary claim are the town paper's full run and the county histories' township chapters. The state-fair test is unrun at name strength. No exhibitor, exhibit, or committeeman of Walkerton or Lincoln Township at the Indiana State Fair is named in any record reached for this build; the sibling build's instrument — the fair's premium lists read whole, as its 1858 committee test ran for its township — is the named settler, and the item stands as a gap, not a negative: the premium books of the state fair and the Tribune's fair reporting (St. Joseph County Public Library; Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library) settle it. The world's-fair test is negative at reached strength. No exhibit from this ground at the World's Fair of 1893 is named in any record reached; Howard's fairs chapter mentions Chicago's fair only as the spectacle after which local interest waned. Both negatives and the one gap print at exactly these strengths.
Principal sources: this build's parks pass (the fairground test and the 1932 budget line); Howard (1907), vol. 1, ch. VII §1 (the Chicago fair as spectacle); the record as searched, as stated.