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1966–PRESENT · BENDIX WOODS AT BOUNDARY SIZE; THE CAMPUS ACROSS THE LINE
The institutional article in Food & Drink carried Knollwood's dining room and the Harris School cafeteria and stopped before the checklist's third named table. It is carried now, at boundary size, from the county record: Bendix Woods County Park, 32132 State Road 2, New Carlisle — St. Joseph County's first county park, on ground the Studebaker Corporation took in 1926 for its proving grounds, some 175 acres of it donated to the newly formed park board by the Bendix Corporation in 1966, the park standing at 195 acres in the county parks master plan, with a sugar camp among its listed facilities. The camp is a working institutional table, not a diorama: St. Joseph County Parks' own programme record has maple sugaring operations beginning in mid-February, when visitors help tap trees (around sixty maples in a recent season's account), tour the sugar bush and watch sap cook into syrup in the sugar house; Sugar Camp Days, the annual maple syrup festival — the largest annual special event the county parks staff coordinates, with sugar-house tours, artisan demonstrations and a pancake element — falls in March. The festival's weekend prints in its small conflict, whole: the county's current trail-map programme page gives “the second weekend in March,” its earlier park brochure and the festival accounts give “the third weekend in March”; both stand as printed, and the county's current programme page governs a visit. Pure Bendix Woods maple syrup is sold at the nature center in the former Studebaker clubhouse, per the Indiana Bicentennial Commission's Sugar Camp Days project record. The camp sits some twenty miles west of this ground, in Olive Township; it is the county's sugar camp, carried at pointer-and-boundary size exactly as the South Bend build carries it, and the Granger share is stated plainly: Granger families are part of its regional draw, and no sugar camp, sugar bush or syrup operation has ever stood in the CDP in any record reached.
The campus signature sandwich, tested as the row requires: the campus is across the line at Notre Dame, and its signature sandwich is a documented one — the Knights of Columbus steak sandwich. Notre Dame Magazine's account: the men of Notre Dame's Knights of Columbus Council No. 1477 — the first college council of the order, founded 1910 — have grilled steak sandwiches on South Quad on football Saturdays since 1968 (a Knights of Columbus film account dates the sale tradition to 1973; the conflict prints whole), a six-ounce ball-tip sirloin on a sesame seed bun, selling some 1,800 to 2,000 before an afternoon game and 2,500 to 2,700 before a night game, and raising more than 1.5 million dollars for charity over the tradition's life. That is the campus table's signature at its proven size. No equivalent signature sandwich stands on this ground: the claims article in Food & Drink already tested the CDP's own tables and found one namesake plate — the Loaded Granger Fries — and no sandwich.
Sources: St. Joseph County Parks, Bendix Woods park brochures, trail map (2026) and Five Year Master Plan 2019–2023 (donation 1966, 195 acres, Sugar Camp Days, the sugar house); St. Joseph County Parks Master Plan 2014–2018 (175 acres donated, 15 purchased 1969, the sugar camp listed); Indiana Bicentennial Commission legacy project record IBC-HC-57 (Sugar Camp Days, the operating sugar house, syrup sold at the nature center); Notre Dame Magazine, “Well Done” (the steak sandwich tradition, 1968, volumes and charitable total); Knights of Columbus, Everyday Heroes episode 2 (the 1973 date, as printed).