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ITEM 15 · VERIFIED TO THE BUILD MONTH, NOVEMBER 2026
A zoo enters a town's school life as the place its classes visit and the institution its children join; Walkerton's animal institution in school life is not a zoo, and the leg prints what stands instead. No Walkerton school record reached — not the corporation's published life, not the schools file's deep read of it — carries a zoo program, a zoo school, a zoo membership course, or a home institution for the town's children to visit as their own. The animal institution the town's school life actually runs on stands in the Fairs leg: the township's 4-H club at the county fair, registered in April 1946 and carried whole in this history — exhibition animals, judged and auctioned, at South Bend's fairgrounds. That is boundary ground and the fair's own telling, pointed at here and not retold. The zoo trips of the town's children, to Potawatomi in South Bend or to Fort Wayne's, are the sister cities' institutions receiving them, and no record reached names them at a strength this section can print. The present state, verified to the build month: as of November 2026 no zoo, menagerie, animal park, or accredited animal institution stands in Walkerton or Lincoln Township in any current directory, register, or accreditation list reached, and none is under construction or announced in any record reached. The leg closes where it opened: the institution does not exist here, the absence is documented rather than assumed, and the town's genuine animal history — its horse trade, its fair animals, its marsh wildlife — stands whole in the legs that own it.
Principal sources: the Schools and John Glenn School Corporation's published record; this history (the 4-H course); current directories and the AZA list as reached, November 2026.