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The civic fact, and the world's filing
The line: The ground the world means when it says "South Bend" most often — the University of Notre Dame campus, with the Golden Dome, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the Grotto and Notre Dame Stadium — stands in Notre Dame, Indiana: an unincorporated place of its own in St. Joseph County, immediately north of the city of South Bend, with its own post office. It is not inside the South Bend city limits. The Notre Dame history in this record carries the town-and-gown story whole; this section states the line once, as a fact of the map, and then follows the world's filing, because the fame is the subject here and the fame is filed under South Bend — by the national press, by the broadcast networks, and by the datelines of a century and a half. The four campus places that follow are therefore printed with their true geography attached: they are Notre Dame's buildings, in the city of South Bend's immediate north, known to the world as South Bend's. Nothing in what follows is changed by the line, and nothing about the line is argued.
Sources
- The Notre Dame history in this record — the grant, the town and gown, and the campus as a place of its own.
- The Notre Dame football history in this record — the stadium and its apparatus.