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1907–2026 · THIS GROUND'S ROSTER FROM THE BUILD'S OWN RECORD; HOWARD'S AT COUNTY FRAME
The roster the leg never had: gathered from the fragments that carry them, this ground's clubs as of November 2026 are these. The Granger Business Association, the ground's merchants' body, carried in Businesses. The Granger Garden Club, founded by Roseann Marchetti and carried in Arts — the one club founding documented on this ground in the whole record. The Granger Sunrise Rotary, carried in Parks for its multi-year playground commitment at Harris Township Park on Elm Road. The Friends of the Library and the Friends of Granger Paths, the two friends-of bodies, carried in Arts and Parks respectively. And, dug by the service-club article below and entered on the roster here for the first time in the build: the Clay-Granger Lions Club and the Knute Rockne Memorial Kiwanis Club of Granger. Seven bodies: a business association, a garden club, three service clubs and two friends-of groups — the whole of it, and the article does not pad the list. Set it against the census frame of 1907 at county scale, from Howard's roster of that year: the Masons in three lodges, the Odd Fellows in their hall, the Elks in a new temple, the Pythians, Foresters, Hibernians, Maccabees, Woodmen, Red Men, Ben Hur, the Owls' Supreme Nest, sixty gentlemen of the Round Table, nine named social clubs, six building and loans — a county of joiners whose joining happened in the city. The CDP's seven are a farm ground's answer a century later: fewer, later, service-shaped rather than secret-shaped, and — unlike the census's hundreds — every one of them actually here. For the archival depth beneath both rosters, the named shelf is the St. Joseph County Public Library's Clubs, Societies, and Organizations collection at Michiana Memory: forty-three boxes, 1891–2015 with the bulk 1910–1970, the county's club paper gathered in one place, and the door through which any club missing from either roster would most likely be found.
The 1907 roster at county frame: Howard (1907), pp. 456–463. The archive shelf: SJCPL, Clubs, Societies, and Organizations Collection finding aid, Michiana Memory (43 boxes; 1891–2015, bulk 1910–1970).