Do You Know Your History?

Sometimes it is easy to get so involved in community history that family history is overlooked. Future generations will someday try to find out how people today lived.  Is a family record being preserved for those who come after us?   Personal accounts...

Belling Once Common Practice

Belling is a phrase hardly known today but it was once a common practice that may or may not have been a delight for a newly married couple. After a couple married, neighbors and friends would go to the newlywed’s house late in the evening being very quiet and they...

Grove City’s First Community Park

Long before there was a Parks and Recreation department that created and managed parks in the community, there was Beulah Park.  A. G. Grant gets credit for the park as part of a promotional effort to sell homes in the town’s first subdivision in 1889. The park became...

Enjoy History?

New members are critical to any volunteer organization and the Southwest Franklin County Historical Society is no different.  If you enjoy history and want to become involved or just financially support the effort, consider becoming a member for only $15 a...

Dr. Les Bostic, Humanitarian

Probably the best-known humanitarian who has ever lived in Grove City was a man by the name of Leslie A. Bostic.  He was honored a few years ago by the local Rotary Club for his civic accomplishments and as a visionary leader.  Dr. Les Bostic, as he was...