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Compiled 2026-11-11 · the Fort Wayne apparatus, drawn into this section
What the ledger is: This build does not hide its unfinished business in prose. Every question the research could not settle stands in a single harvest — It holds 174 rows. A row exists only where a note or fragment names the settling source for an open question; a source merely cited for a settled fact earns no row, duplicates are merged under one GAP number, and settled items are excluded by rule. The classes count what kind of door each answer stands behind: NEWSPAPER 26 (a named paper's archive, film run or index), ANCESTRY 4 (subscription-walled records), OPEN-WEB 36 (official databases and published volumes reachable now), COUNTY-RECORD 32 (physical records at the courthouse and its offices), and OTHER 76 (congregations', clubs', districts' and firms' own archives, state and university collections, published books).
The ledger at working strength — a selection, in the harvest's own row shape: GAP-SPINE-2: the Grand Trunk line's construction date through Harris Township and the Granger station's opening — Howard proves both by 1907 and the trustee dates the railroad era "about 1870"; settler, Grand Trunk timetables and official guides, Goff (1980), the Tribune archive (NEWSPAPER). GAP-SPINE-8: the Harris Township airport the trustee's letter remembers in one line — no name, no site, no dates; settler, Goff (1980), FAA and airport-directory back files, the Tribune archive (NEWSPAPER). GAP-BIZ-2: the Granger Station and Martin's Store #16 opening years (Heritage Square's Martin's is settled at fall 2006); settler, the Tribune archive, Martin's corporate history, county building records (NEWSPAPER). GAP-T1: the union depot's closing and removal — its siting, status and 1984 roster place are settled, its end unreached; settler, GTW station records, the ICC valuation, the Tribune morgue (NEWSPAPER). GAP-CRIME-5: the dry-era township record — no raid, still or prosecution seated in Clay or Harris in any source reached, and the negative's settler is the unread archive itself, the Tribune 1920–1933 read by township name (NEWSPAPER). GAP-FOOD-1: Macri's Deli's founding year and first address, bounded to the late 1970s by the house's own "over 40 years" against a 2009 listing's "over 30"; settler, the Tribune archive and late-1970s Michiana directories (NEWSPAPER). GAP-ART-1: no named visual artist at record strength for the CDP, printed as a tested negative in the Arts section; settler, the Tribune's arts coverage across the full run and the Denham files (NEWSPAPER). GAP-STM-3: Goff's History of Harris Township (1980) unread first-hand — a copy now located in the Denham Collection at the History Museum (see the Folklore addendum); settler, the book itself (OTHER). GAP-STM-4: Baker's place-name entry for Granger, unread at entry level; settler, the entry in Baker's Indiana place-name works (OTHER). GAP-FARMS-1: Chapman's products table (1880, pp. 664–665), refused from the machine copies reached; settler, a first-hand read of the printed volume (OTHER). GAP-GOV-1 and GAP-GOV-2: the Clay Township trustee succession; settler, the County Clerk's certified precinct and office records (COUNTY-RECORD). The full 174 rows stand in the harvest file, which is part of this build's record and merges upward into the parent catalog; this ledger entry is its in-file face, and the "How to Check Us" article that closes the banked Sources file remains the reader's door to all of it.
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