Some histories indicate the first high school band was organized in 1909, one year before the Jackson Township High School opened, but a picture in the files of the Southwest Franklin County Historical Society indicate this photograph of a high school band was taken in 1906. It’s documented the band practiced at the Beulah Methodist Church and at the home of Mrs. Rolla White. In 1971, the Grove City High School band performed Script Ohio during a pregame show for the Cincinnati Bengals at Riverfront Stadium.

First Lieutenant Absolom Borror was the son of American Revolutionary War veteran Jacob Borror Jr. and Magdalene Strader Borror, was wounded in the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War. After Absolom’s father died while they lived in Kentucky, his mother moved the family to Jackson Township around 1809, an area known today as Borrors Corners at Jackson Pike and SR 665.

The late Andrew “Andy” Furr, executive director of the Grove City Town Center business organization, created several local festivals including the Wine and Arts Festival, Bourbon Festival, and was instrumental in the ongoing success of the Christmas Mistletoe Market. He also organized foot truck events in the Town Center and was once the Arts in the Alley parade director and the Christmas Parade.

The first railroad planned to operate through Grove City was the Ohio Southern Railroad in 1881. The company constructed a bed for track to the area just north of Rt. 665 on the east side of Hoover Road. The company went bankrupt and the project was never completed. The Columbus and Cincinnati Midland Railroad laid the current track west of Broadway three years later in 1884.

In the early 1950s, the land where Windsor Park is today was slated to become an industrial park. Charles MacKay, Harold Windsor, Joseph White, Ernest Plank and Melvin Girbert argued against the plan encouraging the land to become parkland. By 1953, the first Little League team, pictured, played at Windsor Park after relocating from Wade’s Park that was once north of Columbus Street at Richard Avenue.