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Row #6, second half · tested November 2026
Searches run: (1) every fragment and Run C addendum swept for this roster was read for Black owners — none named, for any era; (2) Polk's Granger village listings, 1880–81 and 1884–85, read whole — the gazetteer does not mark race in its village lines, and no name in either listing is identifiable as a Black trader from any other record; (3) the open web for Black-owned businesses at Granger / 46530 addresses — national Black-owned directories and directory searches returned no Granger-addressed listing; (4) the Indiana Black-business record — the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center's landmark research (Garner's Placing History) reconstructs South Bend's Black business district, historically on the city's west side around Linden Avenue, with no Clay or Harris Township address in the record reached; the Indiana Black-farms resource lists name Indiana Black farms elsewhere in the state, none in either township; (5) the county's Black-history record as carried in this build's own Black History leg — no Granger-addressed Black-owned firm. One false positive is disposed of on the record: a directory listing for a "Black Panther Publishing" at an Ash Road, Granger address is a business name, not evidence of a Black owner, and it is not counted. The finding therefore prints as a tested negative at open-source strength: no Black owner of a Granger business is named in any open record, for any era. It is not a finding that none existed — the sources that systematically under-recorded Black enterprise elsewhere under-recorded it here too, and the directory classes that might correct the record are the same paywalled and archival classes named above. The residue stands as a named gap: settlers are the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center's oral-history collection, the South Bend Tribune archive, the Negro business directory tradition (Sims' Blue Book and its successors) as held by The History Museum, South Bend, and the SJCPL county directories read for the village's traders across the twentieth century.