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1880–81 AND 1884–85 EDITIONS · POLK'S INDIANA STATE GAZETTEER
Hotels that exist only in directories are still hotels, so the directory record for the station village is run here under its own heading, in the settler the Businesses file named for the village's storekeepers and blacksmiths (its GAP-BIZ-5): the village listings of Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer, read in the two earliest editions. The 1880-81 edition carries Granger at the record's smallest size: a post-office station on the Grand Trunk railroad just south of the Michigan state line, in Harris Township, nine miles northeast of the South Bend courthouse, with a Presbyterian church — and, in the gazetteer's own summary, the station "of only two families." The 1884-85 edition gives the village whole, and it is printed whole here, because this listing is the directory-houses article entire: "GRANGER. Is located at junction of C & GT and C W & M Rys, in Harris township, St Joseph county, 9 miles northeast of South Bend, the county seat. Nearest bank at Mishawaka. Grain and live stock are shipped. There is 1 Presbyterian church in the neighborhood. Tel, W U. Franklin E Lowry, postmaster." The business list that follows names eight concerns: Beiny Levy, saloon; Eldridge & Robbins, lumber; H. E. Hain, grocer; Samuel Inks, livery; Franklin E. Lowry, grain and general store; E. A. Metzger, feed mill; Metzger & Lowry, grain and live stock; C. H. Smith, druggist. A saloon could pour a drink and a livery could stable a horse, and between them a traveller at the Granger junction in 1884 could be fed, watered and carried on — but no line in the list keeps beds for hire: no hotel, no inn, no tavern, no boarding house, in either edition. The gazetteer's classified trade lists for the county, in which a Granger hotel would also have appeared under its trade heading, were run with the village listings; they return the same eight-name village and no lodging trade. The directory long tail for Granger is therefore exactly this: the village had the two businesses that stood nearest to lodging in the nineteenth-century countryside — the saloon and the livery stable — and the directory record gives it no house. Any Granger house that existed only in a later county directory would stand in the SJCPL county directories, which are named here as the settler for any directory-only house between the gazetteer era and the Hampton's opening in 2014; in the open record reached — the gazetteers above and the county histories Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), whose township chapters the Food file read first-hand for tavern, inn and hotel and found none — no such house appears.
Sources: Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1880-81 ed., village listing "Granger" (post-office station; "only two families"; Presbyterian church). Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer, 1884-85 ed., vol. III, p. 290, village listing "Granger" and business list, quoted whole (read in the Archive.org scan via the LDS Genealogy transcription). Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), township chapters, as read and printed in the Food file of this record. Settler named for the residual span: the county directories at the St. Joseph County Public Library (GAP-BIZ-5's own settler, run here under hotels).