|
Date |
Event |
|
1812 |
Buxton Inn
built |
|
1825-1830 |
Ohio Canal
built in Newark, brings rapid growth in 1830s |
|
1831 |
Denison
University founded |
|
1849 |
Opera
House built originally as the First Baptist Church |
|
1880 |
Henry
Kussmaul & Harry Church start The Granville Times. |
|
1882 |
Opera
House moved across street & now serves as town hall |
|
1890 -
1923 |
Newark &
Granville Electric Street Railway Company (“Interurban”) operates from
downtown Newark to Granville |
|
1905 |
John
Sutphen Jones buys farm property once known as McCune’s villa (built
originally in 1865), renames it “Bryn Du” (Welsh for “dark hills”) |
|
1922 |
Deeds
Field & stadium built |
|
1922 –
1924 |
Swasey
Chapel built |
|
1923 |
Harry
Pierce (Libby Frazier’s father) starts Peoples’ State Bank |
|
1924 |
Old high
school built (130 N. Granger); later it becomes the middle school; most
of it has been razed but section lremaining is administrative offices for
schools. |
|
1924 -
1925 |
Granville
Inn and Golf Course built |
|
1925 |
The
“Wigwam” built at Denison as a temporary gymnasium |
|
1925 |
Granville
Public Library built |
|
1927 |
Hitching
rails removed from primary thoroughfare |
|
1927 |
Don W.,
Wilber & Bill Young buy Granville Times from Henry Kussmaul |
|
1927
(Feb. 2) |
Fire
destroys most of businesses on south side of Broadway, including Follett
and Wilson buildings |
|
1927 |
Doane
Academy (the preparatory high school for Denison) closes |
|
1927 |
Shepardson
College for Women & Denison University merge into a single corporation
with a single board of trustees |
|
1928 |
Harmon-Burke Field dedicated |
|
1929 |
Viaduct
(Cherry St & Rt. 16) over Raccoon Creek valley, named in memory of John
Sutphen Jones |
|
1930 |
Stoplights
installed at Main & Broadway, and Prospect & Broadway |
|
1933 |
E.C.
Roberts builds Spring Valley Pool, offers free swimming lessons |
|
1935 |
Patsy’s
Restaurant closes after 20 years, due to ill health of owner, P.J.
Cordon |
|
1935 |
W.P.
Ullman sells his drug store to Harold Taylor |
|
1937 |
New
Granville Post Office opens |
|
1950 |
Fanny
Doane Home closes |
|
1950 |
Granville
Lumber is established by Myron Rutledge |
|
1951 |
New
elementary school is built in a U around old elementary school (310 N.
Granger). Old school is torn down |
|
1955 |
St. Edward
the Confessor Catholic Church is built on Newark-Granville Rd.
(congregation actually began back in 1947) |
|
1956 |
Pilgrim
Lutheran Church begins |
|
1957 |
Ace Morgan
Theatre opens on corner of Mulberry & College Streets |
|
1959
(Jan. 20-21) |
The Great
Flood of ’59 – non-stop rain on frozen ground; 94% of buildings in
Newark are affected; 2500 people are given shelter, many in dorms &
makeshift shelters at Denison. |
|
1959 |
Scheduled
rail service to Granville ceases. |
|
1960s |
Owens-Corning Research Center built |
|
1962 |
Route 16
Expressway built. Traffic no longer goes through the village. |
|
1965 |
Donald
“Buck” Johnston becomes first Village Manager |
|
1971 |
New High
School at 210 New Burg St. built. |
|
1971 |
Peoples
State Bank becomes Park National Bank |
|
1972 |
Voters
approve a ½ mil levy for a “comprehensive recreation program for the
Granville community” (the start of the Granville Rec. Commission) |
|
1972 |
Orville &
Audrey Orr buy the Buxton Inn |
|
1973 –
1980 |
Bob Harmon
is Village Manager |
|
1974 |
“How
Should Granville Grow?”, 3 public forums organized by Jenny McSweeney &
Carol Apacki, anticipates many of the critical issues Granville is to
face. |
|
1976 |
Sallie
Jones Sexton, facing bankruptcy, sells the Granville Inn to Bob & Joan
Kent, and the Bryn Du mansion & land along Newark-Granville Rd to
William Wright |
|
1976 |
Don D.
Young takes over ownership of Granville Times from his father, Don W.
Young |
|
1977 |
Voters end
the prohibition on the sale of alcohol in Granville (which had existed
for almost 100 years) |
|
1977 –
1978 |
The
Homestead (an environmental living/learning project) constructed near
Denison Biological Reserve |
|
Late 1970s |
Rail
service to Granville stopped. Rails torn out. |
|
1978
(Jan. 26) |
Blizzard
of ’78 – 66 inches of snow, 70 mph winds, a drop of 40 degrees in 6
hours |
|
1978 (Dec.
24) |
Stockyard
fire destroys auction barn |
|
1979 |
Welsh
Hills School opens; Katie Naul is the first director |
|
1979 |
1st
paid Granville fireman |
|
1980 –
1997 |
Doug
Plunkett is Village Manager |
|
1981 |
Hilengreen
developed by Gary Price |
|
1982
(April 7) |
Opera
House fire |
|
1985 |
The
original 9 miles of bike path opens between Newark & Alexandria |
|
1986 |
Bob Kent &
associates buy land along Newark-Granville Rd. from William Wright and
develop Bryn Du Woods (custom homes on the eastern edge of the golf
course.) |
|
1987 |
Frank &
Herb Murphy develop Erinwood (single homes, condos & offices on both
sides of Newark-Granville Rd.) |
|
1987 |
Quest
International buys the Bryn Du mansion |
|
1988 |
Jay Young
buys Granville Times store from his father Don D. Young, & it becomes
Kussmaul Gallery |
|
1992 |
New High
School is built at 248 New Burg St. The old building at 210 New Burg
now becomes the Middle School |
|
1993 |
Wildwood
Playground built. |
|
1995 |
Bryn Du
mansion purchased by Dave Longaberger |
|
1997 |
Granville
Christian Academy opens under leadership of Cathy Pound & Spring Hills
Baptist Church |
|
2001 (Oct.
15) |
Anthrax
scare at Granville Post Office |
|
2002 |
Lea Ann
Parsley (GHS graduate & volunteer firefighter) wins silver medal at the
Winter Olympics in the skeleton competition |
|
2002 |
Granville
Village purchases Bryn Du mansion and the land fronting it. |
|
2003 |
New
Intermediate school opens (2025 Burg St.) |
