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THE TEST THE LEG ORDERS, RUN FIRST · NOVEMBER 2026
The instruments were the ones the leg names. The county histories were read first-hand: Chapman's History of St. Joseph County (1880) was string-searched entire in this run — the word "menagerie" occurs nowhere in its 986 pages, and its Lincoln Township chapter and its natural-history chapter carry no animal collection, park menagerie, or kept beasts of any kind; Howard (1907) carries none either. The town's own ground record was tested with it: Parks's ground test, run for fairgrounds, driving parks, picnic groves and Chautauqua grounds, found no animal ground of any class, and its six-park system — Place, Urey, Scarbrough, the Soccer Plex, Washington, Veterans — contains no animal park among them. The accreditation record was checked: no Walkerton or Lincoln Township institution appears in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' accredited list, present or in any past list reached. The town paper's run, the register of the town's organizations read whole in this history, and the modern directories name no zoological society, animal park, sanctuary, or menagerie seated in the town or township at any date. The leg therefore prints its finding as the finding: Walkerton has never had a zoo. Every item below rides this test, and each is closed at the size the test leaves it — which is the size of a searched and documented absence, printed so that no later tradition can be mistaken for an untested one.
Principal sources: Chapman (1880), full-text string search, November 2026 (archive.org, historyofstjosep00chap); Howard (1907); Parks's ground test and six-park record; this history's register read whole; AZA accredited-institution lists as reached, November 2026.