The deeds in kind, valued as the record values them

ROW 83-10 · DUG AT RECORD STRENGTH · VALUATIONS NAMED AS A GAP

This ground's in-kind record is three deeds, and the record values none of them in money: Zook's five acres (Fir Road, 1954) — the St. Pius X site, given by a developer who was simultaneously platting 270 homes in the parish bounds; the parish history that preserves the gift preserves no appraisal, and the gift's economic logic (a parish anchors a subdivision) is the only valuation the record offers. The Brooks acre (Clay Township, 1856) — one acre for a burying ground, carried whole in the covered founding-benefactions article; no consideration is stated in the record reached. Microsoft's 250–300 acres — the conservation easement and green zone on the EKI campus ground, stated by county officials in the commissioners' update of February 17, 2026 and carried whole in the banked Businesses leg: printed here with its legal character kept straight, because an easement exacted as a development condition on a $77.5 million land purchase (the banked figure for the ~929-acre St. Joseph's Farm purchase of 2024) is a planning instrument, not a philanthropic gift, and this section does not promote it into one; its acreage — a quarter to a third of a square mile of farm ground kept green inside a data-center campus — is its documented size, and no dollar value for the easement appears in the record.

The checklist's two named in-kind forms were tested expressly. A company's archive or memory, given whole: no corporate archive, records collection or company museum is recorded as given by any Granger firm to any repository in the record reached — tested negative. A mansion given whole: no house, estate or mansion gift — to a college, a foundation, a park board or anyone — appears for this ground in any record reached — tested negative; the ground's large houses are private and stay private in its record. NAMED GAP (valuations): the dollar values of the Zook and Brooks deeds as the public record values them; settler: the St. Joseph County Assessor's parcel records for the Fir Road parish parcel and the Section-line burying-ground parcel (historic assessments), with the 1954 and 1856 deed instruments at the County Recorder. The deeds print, until then, in the units the record itself uses: acres.

Sources:

1. Banked Businesses (intact mirror) — the Zook gift (1954, five acres, 270 homes); the Microsoft course whole ($77.5 million, ~929 acres, May/June 2024 date conflict printed there; the 250–300-acre easement as county officials stated it, February 17, 2026; no abatements sought).
2. The covered row 83-6 record (Brooks acre, 1856) at pointer size, per the rows file.
3. Search record of this run: archive-gift and mansion-gift sweeps for Granger donors and recipients — no instance returned.