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No company housing stands in this ground's record, and the negative is stated as a searched result: the neighborhoods record of this build is a plat record — subdivisions platted, marketed, and sold lot by lot to individual owners from the postwar decades onward — and no plat, employer, or press account found in the searches run ties any Granger housing to an employer as landlord. There was no mill village here because there was no mill; the corridor's employers have always drawn their labor from a housing market they did not build. One institution on this ground did house its labor, and it is the exception that proves the shape of the rule. Saint Joseph's Farm — the Brothers of Holy Cross farm on the Currant Road ground, worked by the brothers themselves to supply the University of Notre Dame, its peat bog cut for fuel, in Brother Carl Tiedt's own booklet The Peat Bog: St. Joseph's Farm — was a religious community's farm, whose housing was the community's own residence on its own land: labor housing as a by-product of a vowed common life, not of an employment contract. Its papers survive as a named archive, the settling source for any fuller account of who lived and worked on that farm: the Saint Joseph's Farm Collection, identifier SCF, in the University of Notre Dame Archives, holding miscellaneous records and printed material dated 1879 to the 1990s, Tiedt's booklet among them. The farm's afterlife closes the row: the ground the brothers worked for fuel — peat then, sunlight now, in Notre Dame's own telling — is the same St.
Neighborhoods plat record (subdivision plats; no employer-built housing); searches run November 2026 for company or employer housing in Granger and the two townships (no case returned); University of Notre Dame Archives, Saint Joseph's Farm Collection (SCF), 1879–1990s, including Brother Carl Tiedt, CSC, The Peat Bog: St. Joseph's Farm; Notre Dame Stories, "Before the sunrise: St. Joseph's Farm" (brothers cultivated the land to provide fuel for the university; the farm now produces solar power); South Bend Tribune, 2024–2026 (the St. Joe Farm ground as the Microsoft site).