Next Wednesday, July 24, the Grant-Sawyer Homestead will be available for guided tours at 10am, noon, and 2p. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED, as there is a maximum of 10 guests per tour. Call 614-277-3061 to make a reservation, Tuesday. - Fri., 10:00AM -4:00 PM.

The cost is $5 for adults, $3 children 12 and under. Exact payment required—cash or check. Credit card payments not accepted.

Please allow 5-10 minutes for parking, which is available on Gladman Avenue behind the home, accessible from Columbus Street and Sawyer Drive. Tours begin at the barn located behind the home.

Please note—The home and other buildings on the grounds are not ADA-compliant. Navigating stairs to enter and tour the home is necessary. No food or drinks are permitted in the buildings.

The man who owned and operated the first auto dealership in Grove City was also an active pilot in the U. S. Air Force with 15,000 hours in the cockpit. Leslie G. Mulzer was promoted to brigadier general in 1955. He sold his Ford dealership and garage to A. J. Harley in 1923. Harley eventually built a new showroom beside the bowling alley in the downtown and sold Dodge, Plymouth and Dodge trucks. Art by Earl Nicholson.

The restored Orders Road Schoolhouse will be open for tours at Century Village next Wednesday, July 17 from 12p-4p. Come see the building where some of your ancestors going back to 1879 might have learned their letters.

Admission and parking is free.

Please note that the Schoolhouse is NOT ADA-compliant. Navigating a few stairs to enter the building is necessary. No food or drinks are permitted in the buildings.

Town Marshal Denny Brake once promoted the idea that the saloon operated by the Enders family should be renamed the Grove City Park Hotel. That never happened. Brake lived in one of the two houses just behind Enders where the Safety Building sits today.

Kathleen White’s great grandfather, William G. Sibray, purchased the first lot in Grove City from the town’s founder, William Foster Breck. Sibray spent a whopping $16 for his property. A native of Baltimore, MD, he had been living in Pickerington when he moved to Jackson Township with Breck.