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Both trails are real, both are dated, and neither one courses this ground. The Lincoln Highway was announced on September 13, 1913, running from New York to San Francisco through Fort Wayne, Ligonier, Elkhart, South Bend, La Porte, and Valparaiso. Its 1913 Indiana alignment — which it held until 1928 — entered St. Joseph County from Elkhart on the old Vistula Road, detouring around Baugo Bay by County Line Road and present State Road 933, then ran through Osceola and downtown Mishawaka on Lincolnway, across South Bend, and out the old Michigan Road: a line drawn across the county's waist, south of this ground at every point. When the federal numbers came in 1926 the route was carried largely onto U.S. 30, and the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association's turn-by-turn guides for the 1913 and 1928 alignments agree in placing no mile of either alignment in Clay or Harris township's Granger ground. The Dixie Highway was organized on April 3, 1915, at Chattanooga, and its route was announced May 22, 1915; its main western division ran Chicago–Indianapolis–Louisville, well west and south of this county, but within a week Michigan agreed to a Lower Peninsula loop passing via Toledo, South Bend, Mackinaw City, and Detroit — and that loop is this ground's near miss. It entered Indiana at the state line on the Michigan Road alignment, today's Dixie Way through Roseland and U.S. 31, touched the Lincoln Highway at Michigan and Washington streets in downtown South Bend — where the state historical marker installed in 2010 now stands — and ran south. That alignment runs down the county's western side, through Portage and Centre ground and the Clay Township edge at Roseland, west of the Granger census line at its closest: in the county, on the boundary, and not across this ground. The two trails met each other in South Bend; neither met Granger. The era is therefore acquitted whole for the CDP, 1913–1928, on the associations' own route records and the state's marker file — documented negatives at boundary size, exactly as the register expected, with the near miss printed rather than rounded into a claim.
Lincoln Highway Association proclamation, September 13, 1913 (New York Times, September 14, 1913: Indiana cities Fort Wayne, Ligonier, Elkhart, South Bend, La Porte, Valparaiso); Indiana Lincoln Highway Association turn-by-turn guides, 1913 and 1928 alignments (Vistula Road; County Line Road / SR 933; Osceola; Mishawaka; South Bend; Michigan Road west); Indiana Historical Bureau marker 71.2010.1, "Lincoln & Dixie Highways," Michigan and Washington Streets, South Bend (LHA formed 1913; Dixie Highway Association formed 1915; routes announced September 13, 1913, and May 22, 1915; intersection at the marker site); Dixie Highway route record (organized April 3, 1915, Chattanooga; Michigan loop via Toledo, South Bend, Mackinaw City, Detroit; Roseland's Dixie Way).