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1835–1842
The civil frame came in three orders and one cancellation: on May 4, 1835, an order formed Washington Township in the county's southeast corner — and the order was canceled. On January 5, 1836, Harris Township was formed on less territory than the canceled Washington would have held. Twice afterward the commissioners trimmed its west side to build a neighbor: on May 5, 1840, a section and a half in width was detached from Harris to form part of Clay Township, and on December 7, 1842, another half section followed. Those two orders fixed Harris Township's present dimensions, and the frame they made is the frame the place still lives in: the Granger CDP of the census sits across Harris Township and the Clay Township ground those detachments created. The correction belongs in print here because the build was assigned on a different frame: the CDP does not touch Penn Township. Penn is the school corporation's first name and the township to the south, across the Mishawaka line; the record — the Census Bureau's own geography — puts the designated place in Clay and Harris, and the Story of Granger section runs on Clay and Harris.
Sources:
- Howard, History of St. Joseph County (1907), vol. 1, ch. VIII, sec. 3, pp. 279–280, read first-hand.
- Harris Township reference record (organization 1836, citing Charles C. Chapman, History of St. Joseph County, 1880, p. 369).
- U.S. Census Bureau geography for the Granger CDP (Clay and Harris townships).