Milk, Ice Delivery Service

Edward and Otto Hensel were engaged in the trucking business hauling milk and supplying ice to homes.  Their business operated in the mid-1920s out of a building at Broadway and Grove City Road. They collected milk for five different milk companies and two...

Rolla W. White

Before Rolla W. White became a successful Grove City businessman, he spent 13 years as a salesman on the road for Green, Joyce and Company, a wholesaler based in Columbus.   When White decided to start in business for himself, he partnered in the retail field...

Farmers & Merchants Bank

The Farmers & Merchants Bank in the spring of 1903. Among its organizers were Joseph M. Briggs, founder of Briggsdale and Daniel Weygandt. The bank was capitalized for $25,000 and on June 11, 1903 the name was changed to the First National Bank with Briggs serving...

Heritage Celebration – 2014

The Encampment, first held in 2000, was replaced with the Heritage Celebration at Century Village in 2014.  The Encampment, started by Louie and Joan Eyerman, had focused for nearly a decade on Civil War and American Revolution reenactors. When the event...

Lutheran Band Performances

Grove City’s three high school bands and their student musicians perform concerts and participation in community events including parades.  But, before high schools had bands, there was another group that entertained the community. The German Lutheran Band...