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Famous Locations
The boundary, stated once, at the top
The world-famous ground nearest this place is not in this place, and this record claims it at boundary size only, once, here, at the top. South and west of the Granger census line stands the campus of the University of Notre Dame…
World-known sites, tested one by one, fame mechanism stated
At boundary size, the mechanisms are these. The Golden Dome is an icon mechanism: the Main Building's dome, gilded in 1886 and crowned with a 19-foot statue, is the university's most recognizable landmark, reproduced until the…
The famous-grave test, printed as a test
The test asks two questions: is there a famous grave inside the line, and does the ground's one famous burial story involve a grave that moved? Inside the line, the answer is no, and the build's own burial record is the evidence…
Industrial fame as a location: the Microsoft ground, and the headquarters that is not here
This ground's industrial-fame location is a farm that changed owners. In June 2024 Microsoft bought 929 acres of farmland at 52682 Currant Road — the St. Joe Farm, at the northwest corner of Bittersweet and Cleveland roads — for…
Fame's forwarding address: the lost union depot
A departed institution leaves a building, and the building becomes the address at which its fame is forwarded. Granger's institution was the railroad junction itself, and its building was the union depot: a single station shared…
The screen test, run both ways
Direction one: what cameras actually shot on this ground. The searches were run whole: IMDb location listings for Granger, Indiana, and for Clay and Harris townships; the Indiana film record as compiled from IMDb data (the…
The rescued-landmark test: no building on this ground was saved for a dollar
The template is exact, and it is South Bend's: the Palace Theatre, opened 1922, voted for demolition by its board in 1959, was bought by Ella M. Morris and sold by her to the city for one dollar, reopened that October as the…
Fame without a findable ground: "downtown Granger," August 2001
For ten minutes in print, this ground had a downtown. On July 31, 2001, a Canadian National train stopped across Indiana 23 in Granger and held the crossing for at least ten minutes while its two engineers got down and shopped…