The roll of this ground

1830–2026

Granger's faith record runs in two long layers: a farm century in which a township of a few hundred people organized exactly three churches — Presbyterian, Evangelical, and Christian, in the county history's own list — and buried its dead in a prairie cemetery opened in 1834; and a subdivision century in which the same ground, filling with thirty thousand people, seated a large Catholic parish, a megachurch, and a roll of congregations that now numbers sixteen at the strength of the current record. This section takes the congregations one at a time, in the order the ground received them, at the depth the record carries for each. Where the record is a congregation's own history, a diocesan or denominational record, a county history, or the press of record, the entry says its facts plainly. Where the record thins to directory strength, the entry prints at directory strength and says so. Where a fact could not be settled — a founding date, a present meeting place — the entry names the gap and the record that would settle it, rather than filling the silence. Congregations seated just outside the designated place, on Mishawaka, South Bend, or the townships' western ground, are printed as boundary in their own entry at the end, named and placed, never absorbed into this roll.

Sources:

1. Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Lewis Publishing, 1907), vol. 1, ch. V and ch. VIII township sketches, read first-hand in the archive.org text and its transcriptions.
2. The congregations' own published records, the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend and Today's Catholic, denominational records, and the press of record, as cited entry by entry below.
3. U.S. Census Bureau geography for the Granger CDP (Clay and Harris townships; FIPS 18-28800).