Parks: Not Found and Still Open

THE RESIDUE · NOVEMBER 2026

Tested negatives. (1) A municipal park. The place is unincorporated and has no city or town park; every public park on the ground is a township, county, or volunteer work, as the frame article states. Verdict: negative. (2) A Clay Township park, or any park on the place's Clay side. None in the record reached, on the test stated in the boundary article. Verdict: negative. (3) A county park inside the line before Anderson Road. The county's seats — St. Patrick's, Ferrettie-Baugo Creek, Bendix Woods, Spicer Lake — all stand outside the designated place; the Anderson Road property was county land inside the line from 1999 but was farmland and storage, not a park, until the 2025 bond. Verdict: negative for the whole period before the present build. (4) The Elm Road splash pad. Present in the January 2016 plan's list of possibilities; absent from every later account of the built park. Verdict: planned, not built, at the strength of the record reached. Each negative stands open to its settler.

Named gaps. (1) The Brummitt Road park's land and opening. When the township took the thirty acres, from whom, and when the park opened do not appear in the record reached; the park enters print at the playground era. Settler: the St. Joseph County parcel and deed record for 10650 Brummitt Road, and the township's own earlier trustee accounts. (2) Sue Dytewski. The playground at Brummitt Road carries her name in the trustee's spelling, "Dytewski" (Granger Gazette, August 2022), and as "Dylewski" in this build's Government leg; who she was — and which spelling the playground's own sign carries — is not in the record reached. Settler: the township board's minutes and the playground's dedication record; the Tribune's obituary index. (3) The Currant Road ground's tenure. The ownership of the Harris Park complex at 52150 Currant Road. Settler: the county parcel record for the address. (4) The Anderson park's formal name. Conformed at assembly to Anderson Trail County Park on the county minutes' and bid packages' usage; the formal naming act itself was not reached and remains the settler. Settler: the Park Board's minutes and the bond ordinance's project description. (5) The paths' later phases. The built five miles are registered; the completion dates of the Gumwood section and of the Phase II extension's construction, as against its 2015 letting expectation, were not fixed at first-hand strength. Settler: the county engineer's project record and the Friends of Granger Paths' own archive.

Sources:

1. The searches and records of this section as cited article by article above (township, county, state, and trail-registry records), read November 2026.