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The university's archive — the farm's papers, Brother Aidan's extracts, the county's Civil War records
What it is: the Church's farm on Cleveland Road makes the university this ground's deepest archive. Read whole in this build: Brother Aidan's Extracts 238, "Farms at Notre Dame" — the carrier of the St. Joseph's Farm strands the Farms file prints in conflict (the Provincial Council's resolution of 30 January 1867 to buy 1,500 acres in Harris Township at $10 an acre; the extracts' "bought in 1866"; Sorin's Chronicles' purchase of 1,320 acres from Mr. Irwin, 500–600 of it turf) — with the archive's own presentation of Schlereth's account beside it. The farm's internal course after 1900 waits in the Saint Joseph's Farm Collection (SCF) at the Hesburgh Libraries, Brother Carl Tiedt's The Peat Bog among it — a named, un-reached settler (GAP-FARMS-7). The Archives also holds the county's Civil War records collection, a named settler for the township quotas Terrell's volumes were meant to settle first.
Its standing, from this build's experience: the extracts are an institution's edited memory of itself, and the build prints them at that strength — four farm dates (1866, the 1867 resolution, Schlereth's 1867, the diocesan 1870) and four acreages stand unmerged in the Farms file because the archive's own carriers do not merge them. What the archive proves best is what the institution did and recorded: resolutions, visitations, operations.
Where it fails: an archive of the buyer is not an archive of the bought: Harris Township's own view of losing 1,300 acres to the college stands in Goff and the township record, not here — which is why the two seats are both on this list and neither substitutes for the other.
Sources:
- University of Notre Dame Archives — Brother Aidan's Extracts 238, "Farms at Notre Dame" (read whole); Saint Joseph's Farm Collection (SCF), Hesburgh Libraries — named, un-reached.