What Would Settle the Open Stories

THE RECORD AS IT STANDS, NOVEMBER 2026

Each names the settling source, as this build's practice requires.

1. GAP-STM-1 — The Granger post office's establishment entry. The office is dated 1875 on the postal historian's compilation, but its establishment name and first postmaster stand only in the federal appointment record; if the office was established under another name and renamed, the whole name investigation re-opens at a stronger place. Settler: NARA, Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832–1971 (M841), roll 168 (Indiana, Pulaski–St. Joseph counties); J. David Baker, The Postal History of Indiana (1976), as the compiled alternative.
2. GAP-STM-2 — Foster's plat. Howard gives Thomas J. Foster's founding of the town of Granger on 3 April 1883, with a September addition, at coordinates (fractional section 7, T38N, R4E) that conflict with Harris Township's surveyed frame (T38N, R3E); this build's Neighborhoods file found no plat of the hamlet in the record it reached. Settler: the St. Joseph County Recorder's plat books, 1883 — the plat's existence, its ground, and its proprietor settle Howard's account or his error.
3. GAP-STM-3 — Goff's naming account. Germaine Goff, The History of Harris Township (1980) — the township's own book — has been read in this build only through the trustee's 2020 letter. Whether it carries a naming story, a station history, or a Foster, no pass knows. Settler: the book itself, first-hand (Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library / Harris Branch holdings).
4. GAP-STM-4 — The scholarly place-name entry. Ronald L. Baker's place-name work — Indiana Place Names (with Marvin Carmony, 1975) and From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History (Indiana University Press, 1995) — is the literature where a checked Granger entry would stand; its wording was not reached at entry level. Settler: the printed volumes, the Granger entry read entire.
5. GAP-STM-5 — The railroad ordering. Whether any station bore the name before the post office turns on the Grand Trunk's construction date through Harris Township — carried open in the Story of Granger section file as GAP-SPINE-2 (settlers: Grand Trunk timetables and official guides; Goff; the Tribune archive) and not duplicated here.
6. GAP-STM-6 — The 1983 centennial negative. No observance stands in the carriers reached; the negative would be settled, either way, by the press of record's own file. Settler: the South Bend Tribune archive for 1983 (publisher's archive / MPHPL film).