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THE RECORD AS IT STANDS · NOVEMBER 2026
TESTED NEGATIVE — a farm-tractor maker on this ground (row 1). Registers and trade lists searched as printed in the maker-test article. Settler for any contrary claim: the Polk classified sections and the Tribune full text, as below.
TESTED NEGATIVE — garden-tractor manufacture on this ground (row 7). The Pond-family lines are all seated elsewhere (South Bend; Ravenna, Ohio; Mishawaka/Liberty, contested). No maker seated in the CDP in any marque register reached.
CONTESTED, PRINTED WHOLE — Garden-All's seat (row 11). Mishawaka (Gas Engine Magazine's Pond-family history, 2001) against Liberty (the company's trade address and TractorData) against the Wheel-Horse-evolution folklore (Yesterday's Tractors, 1999). Settlers: the marque's corporate filings and trade-press advertisements at date; the Heilman family's record; the Vintage Garden Tractor Club's marque files.
GAP-TR87-1 — A named township implement agency, if any ever traded under a Granger address (row 8). None stands in the directories reached; the gap is named rather than the negative overstated, because Granger's businesses were canvassed inside South Bend/Mishawaka volumes whose rural listings are name-lists, not classified sections. Settlers: the Polk city directories' classified sections (Indiana State Library); the South Bend Tribune and News-Times full text (SJCPL; Hoosier State Chronicles); Purdue extension narrative reports (Purdue Archives).
GAP-TR87-2 — The current dealer row between listings (row 9). Current listings seat no equipment dealer inside the CDP; a small repair or sales operation trading without a directory listing would not appear. Settler: the county's business and zoning filings for Clay and Harris townships; the Tribune.
NOT REOPENED — rows 4–5. The county's first tractor count and the two-part mechanization curve remain NAMED GAP under GAP-FARMS-4 (extension agent annual reports, Purdue University Archives; manuscript schedules; the 1920–1940 Census of Agriculture county tables), exactly as the Farms file carries them. This addendum adds no figure to either.