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The keepers of the open file: who holds this place's unanswered questions

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THE FILE STAYS OPEN SOMEWHERE · THE HOLDERS, NAMED

An unincorporated place keeps its records in other people's houses, and the open questions of this section have named keepers. The place's own: the Harris Branch of the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library, at 51446 Elm Road — the library seat inside the designated place — and the Granger Gazette, the monthly magazine the Newspapers file establishes as the place's paper, in which the Harris Township trustee, Kenneth E. Lindsay, published in August 2020 his "Harris Township: History, and a Question" — the township's own officer printing the question mark himself, and drawing on this section's most wanted volume: Germaine Goff, The History of Harris Township (1980), the township's own book, which this whole build has read only through the trustee's account of it, and whose naming story, if it has one, no pass has yet read first-hand. The county's: the St. Joseph County Public Library's Local & Family History services in South Bend, whose newspaper clipping files carried the Talley house's biography to its legend's carrier; The History Museum in South Bend, which retails the Primrose legend as legend — the honest-broker model this section follows; and the St. Joseph County Recorder, in whose plat books Foster's plat of 3 April 1883 either sleeps or does not. The nation's and the church's: the National Archives, whose Record of Appointment of Postmasters (microfilm M841) holds the Granger office's establishment entry — its first name and its first postmaster; the University of Notre Dame Archives, keeper of the Alexis Granger Papers and the Sorin record; and the Indiana State Library, whose Hoosier State Chronicles runs carried several of this section's period witnesses. The open file is not ownerless. It is distributed — which is the government of this place, applied to its mysteries.

Sources:

  1. This build's Newspapers file (the Granger Gazette
  2. National Archives, "Appointment of Postmasters, 1832 – September 30, 1971" (M841): the record's contents and arrangement — establishment dates, name changes, postmasters — with Indiana's St. Joseph County on roll 168.
  3. University of Notre Dame Archives (the Alexis Granger Papers); St. Joseph County Public Library clipping files as cited by Corson; The History Museum (the Primrose retailing, above).

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Source: The keepers of the open file: who holds this place's unanswered questions, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/stories-told/keepers-of-the-open-file-who-holds-this-place/