The Historical Times:  Back Issues

The Historical Times is issued quarterly by The Granville Historical Society and has been published for more than 30 years.  The current editor is Tom Martin.  One benefit of joining the GHS is that you receive each issue of the Historical Times in the mail as it is published. 

Most issues of the Historical Times from 1988-2019 are available here for reading in Adobe Reader PDF format.  Clicking on the issue date will take you to a PDF of that issue.  For a complete index to past issues (through 2023), please click here.  All past issues are also available for reading at the Society's Museum at 115 East Broadway, Granville, OH.  Contact us for more information.

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2024 Issue 3 “Granville’s Million Dollar Year” by Lyn Boone and Richard Gosnell Oral History.

2024 Issue 2 “Technology sets ‘90s kids apart” by Charles A. Peterson and “A Memorable Memorial Day in 2015” Martha Neff Kessler

2024 Issue 1 “A History Lesson from Afar, A lonely gas station in a 1940 painting launches a search” by Charles A. Peterson and “The Many Faces of Monomoy Place” by Gill Wright Miller

2023 Issue 4 “Education a focus for 80s kids” by Charles A. Peterson and “Oral History: Jack Williams’ mom owned the Buxton Inn while Dad was a town doctor” edited by Charles A. Peterson

2023 Issue 3 “Richard Howe, a Pioneer bringing wireless telegraphy to Granville” by Wayne Piper and Cynthia Cunningham Cort; and “Oral History Interview paints a vivid picture of Granville” by Sam Schnaidt and Louella Hodges Reese

2023 Issue 2 “Granville in the ‘70s” by Charles A. Peterson and “New Garden Club 1931”

2023 Issue 1 “Shadyside Saved” and “Granville what it is today thanks impact of ice age, Central Licking County is where glacier stopped” from a lecture by Tod Frolking, both by Charles A. Peterson

2022 Issue 4 “Where the Arts Flourish” by Charles A. Peterson from a lecture by Marla Krak.

2022 Issue 3 “C.W. Bryant: Multi-tasker” by Theresa Overholser and “50 mounds once dotted township” ed. by Clyde E. Moss

2022 Issue 2 “A Wonderful place to Grow Up” by Charles A. Peterson

2022 Issue 1 ”Downtown Granville 1960” by Rob Drake

2021 Issue 4 “Recalling 1950s Granville” and “Tycoon J.S. Jones helped make the village what it is today” both by Charles A. Peterson

2021 Issue 3 “Long Life, Community and Characters” by Charles A. Peterson

2021 Issue 2 “Was Rebel Prison 1882 Memorial Day Topic?” by Charles A. Peterson

2021 Issue 1 “What’s Old is New, 19th century board game still played in Granville” by Charles A. Peterson and 2020 Annual Report

2020 Issue 4 “Archaeology in the Welsh Hills” by Charles A. Peterson

2020 Issue 3 “The Grangers Meet John Quincy Adams: Fascinating stories found in the Archives” by Janet Philipps Procida

2020 Issue 2 “Pop Quiz; Trivia questions test your knowledge of Granville history” by Tom Martin and “Volunteer knew how to make Opera House clock tick again” by Charles A. Peterson

2020 Issue 1 “Annual Report 2019, it was another busy year for Granville Historical Society” by Cynthia Cunningham Cort, president

2019 Issue 4 “Sam Sheldon’s journey continues, roles as prisoner, gold miner add to his adventures” by Theresa Overholser

2019 Issue 3 “Sam Sheldon’s American Journey, A true story, as told in his letters home to Granville” by Theresa Overholser

2019 Issue 2 “Memories of Monomoy, Detailed history of Denison presidents’ home told as 160-year-old edifice takes on new role” by Charles Peterson with Dale T. Knobel

2019 Issue 1 “Our longest serving mayor, ‘Aug’ Rogers led Granville for record 14 years” by B. Kevin Bennett

2018 Issue 4 “World War I opened doors for women’s advancement” by Megan Threlkeld

2018 Issue 3 “Times they were a changin’, Denison students’ world turned upside-down from 1964 to ‘68” by Tom Martin

2018 Issue 2 “Granville, George Jones and The New York Times, Times co-founder spent boyhood years in Granville” by Wayne Piper

2018 Issue 1 “Granville as a microcosm of pre-WWI era; village in early 20th century contrasted with ‘City of Lights’” by Donald G. Schilling

2017 Issue 3 “How a Denison professor evolved into a Granville icon; ‘Did you know…’ Richard H. (Dick) Mahard?”

2017 Issue 2 “The very heart of community life: Post office long a place to meet and greet” by B. Kevin Bennett

2017 Issue 1 “‘Bravery, battle after battle’ French honor to Granville soldier highlight of moving Veterans’ Day observance” by Tom Martin

2016 Issue 3 “A buggy and a tale of romance” and “Watkin Thomas: Local Builder” by Cynthia Cunningham Cort

2016 Issue 2 “To the manor born, Sallie Jones Sexton is a Granville legend” by Wayne Piper

2016 Issue 1 “Built for the ages, the Alexandrian Bank building in Granville history” by Lyn B. Boone

2015 Fall “Banking comes to Granville” by John Davenport

2015 Spring-Summer “Granville Inn emerged during village’s ‘million dollar year’” by James G. Hale

2015 Winter “Political, religious turmoil in early 19th century Connecticut” by Anthony J. Lisska - Reissue

2014 Fall “The Music Issue” by Mary Ann Malcuit, Jeanne McClain, Marilyn Berger Jung, Keith Boone

2014 Summer “Political, religious turmoil in early 19th century Connecticut” by Anthony J. Lisska

2014 Spring “Speculators, Ohio land companies motivated Granville, Mass. residents to move to Ohio” by Anthony J. Lisska

2014 Winter “The Dark Side of Granville, part 2” by B. Kevin Bennett

2013 Fall “The Dark Side of Granville, part 1” by B. Kevin Bennett

2013 Summer “The varied history of the Granville Times building” by Lyn B. Boone

2013 Spring “Granville Residential Architecture; A living history in board, brick and stone” by Dale T. Knobel

2013 Winter “From Arno to Arnie; Arnold Joseph’s Journey from Saarbrucken to Samson Place by way of the Nuremberg Trials” by Tom Martin

2012 Fall “Close, but no Cigar, Granville takes to the rails” by Thomas B. Martin

2012 Summer “A New Era Begins; Ribbon cut for renovated, expanded museum” by Dale T. Knobel

2012 Spring “Granville and the War of 1812” by B. Kevin Bennett

2012 Winter “How Soviet Citizens got to know Granville, Ohio” by James G. Hale

2011 Fall “116 E. Broadway” by Lyn Boone

2011 Summer “Tracing Granville Connections to an epic education battle: former Doane Academy head, Denison president central in Chicago debate over teachers’ rights” by Karen Graves

2011 Spring “A Bitter Pill, Granville and the Battle of North Mountain, July 3, 1864” by B. Kevin Bennett

2011 Winter “Teacher, Scholar, Citizen; Historical Times under Tony Lisska’s watch for 25 years” by Tom Martin

2010 Summer-Fall “125 Years of telling Granville’s story, part 2” by Don Schilling

2010 Spring “125 Years of telling Granville’s story, part 1” by Don Schilling

2010 Winter “An Unknown Prophet: William Jordan Currin, Denison Class of 1913, and the Great War” by Catherine Dollard

2009 Fall "Religious roots of Granville's settlers," by Richard D. Shiels

2009 Summer "Early 19th century Roman Catholicism but a stone's throw from Granville," by Anthony J. Lisska

2009 Spring "Lure of the gold rush," compiled by Ann Natalie Hansen

2009 Winter "The history of your house," by Cynthia Cunningham Cort

2008 Summer "Frank Packard's Granville, A Prominent Architect Alters the Footprint of Granville," by Anthony J. Lisska

2008 Spring "A Planned Community, the Licking Company's Role is Well Documented," by Theresa Overholser

2008 Winter "Matters of Faith, A Father and a Son and Their Respective Religious Journeys,"  by Theresa Overholser

2007 Fall "Sign the Pledge," delivered by Jon Farris, edited by Theresa Overholser

2007 Summer "Music in Granville During Its First Century," by William Osborne

2007 Spring “The 175th Anniversary of Denison University," by Anthony J. Lisska

2006 Winter "Edward Andrew Deeds and the History of Denison's Deeds Field," by Brian Shue and Jason Wright

2006 Spring/Summer "Industry in Licking County," by Shirley Adams Palmer

2006 March "On Doing Local History," by Anthony J. Lisska

2005 December "Denison University in the Early 1850s, The Great Removal Issue," by Erin Currie and Lauren Molten

2005 August "Her Story:  Famous Women in Granville History," by Lindsey Nikolai and Mary Mooney

2005 May "Observations on the Natural and Cultural Resources of the Spring Valley," by Andrew M. Mickelson

2005 February "Granville's big historical moment was a riot!..or was it?" by Kevin Bennett and Tom Martin

2004 Spring "The Preview of the New Granville History Bicentennial," by Tony Lisska

2004 Winter "Ellen Hayes, Granville Author, Political Radical, Wellesley College Mathematician," by Anthony Lisska

2003 Fall "The Very Rich Life of Anthony Pinkerton Prichard," by Theresa Overholser

2003 Summer "That was Woody," by Robert McDaniel as told to Louis Middleman

2003 Spring "The First Pulpit in Granville, The Story of the Village Post Office Mural," by Anthony J. Lisska

2003 Winter "The Ohio and Granville of 1831:  The Religious and Social Conditions," by Francis W. Shepardson

2002 Fall "A backward Glance at the Forward Pass:  Giving Credit Where Credit is DU!," By Anthony J. Lisska

2002 Summer "The Stills of Granville:  From Corn Whiskey to Peach Brandy, With a Little Cherry Bounce on the Side," by Anthony J. Lisska

2002 Spring "The Importance of Village Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Ohio," by Dale T. Knobel

2002 Winter "Clara Sinnett White, 1862-1947," by William Hoffman

2001 Fall "William Rainey Harper, The Granville Years," Anthony J. Lisska

2001 Summer "Sylvester Horton Rosecrans, The "Other" Rosecrans from Homer," by Anthony J. Lisska

2001 Spring "The Old Granville and The New," by Francis Wayland Shepardson, 1899

2001 Winter "Origins of the Modern Granville Water Works 1885-1886," by Robert J. Sauer

2000 Fall "James Gilruth:  The Story of a Nineteenth Century Circuit Rider," by Tony Stoneburner

2000 Summer "James Gilruth:  Methodist Circuit-rider," by Tony Stoneburner

2000 Spring "The 4th of July Celebration, from the Granville Times," July 8, 1915

2000 Winter "A Supreme Court Justice, a Senator, Two Generals and a Stove Maker:  Civil War Friends and Citizen-Soldiers," by Anthony J. Lisska

1999 Fall "The Old Academy Building:  Standing Proudly for 166 Years"

1999 Summer "Tracing the Granville Feeder Canal," by Albert Watson Davison, Jr.

1999 Spring "The Early Days of the Granville Golf Course," by Bob Evans

1999 Winter "Winter Fun In Granville," by Bob Evans

1998 Fall"The Coming of Age of Nellie Oakes, Part II," by Megan Catherine Lisska

1998 Summer "The Granville Riot, Granville's Reaction to the 1836 Abolitionist Convention Held at the Bancroft Barn on north Street," by Henry Howe, 1836, and "The Coming of Age of Nellie Oakes, Part I," by Megan Catherine Lisska

1998 Spring "A New-Year's Sermon, A composite of Jacob Little's new-year sermons from 1838, 1849, 1852, 1853, and 1854," by James Boggs

1998 Winter "Major General Charles Griffin, Granville's Forgotten Hero," by B. Kevin Bennett

1997 Fall "Hubert Howe Bancroft, Historian of the West," by Ann Natalie Hansen

1997 Summer "The Granville Furnace," by William Hoffman

1997 Spring "The House on Loudon Street," by Ann Natalie Hansen

1997 Winter "A Memorial to a Beloved Wife Establishes a Literary Tradition," by Paul Bennett

1996 Fall "Some Myths About Harmon-hyphen-Burke and Their Field," by G. E. Meyers

1996 Summer "The Hub of Ohio:  A collection of Late Nineteenth Century Granville Advertisements," by the editors

1996 Spring "The Church Builder in Newark Who Became the Hero of a Willa Cather Novel," by Anthony Lisska

1996 Winter "From Quarry to Park:  A History of Sugarloaf," by Marilyn Jung

1995 Fall "Fifty Years of Fidelity to a Fine Ideal," by Charles Browne White, July 31, 1930

1995 Summer "The Ku Klux Klan in Licking County," by B. Kevin Bennett

1995 Spring "Native American Earthworks Sculpt Lunar Odyssey," by Richard Holden, The Earlhamite, Vol. 105, No. 1, Autumn 1984

1995 Winter "The Influence of St. Luke's on the early Life of Granville," from The Granville Times, May 8, 1927

1994 Fall "Remembering Minnie Hite Moody," by Paul Bennett

1994 Spring "The Deep Cut, Ohio's Greatest Engineering Feat in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," by Daniel Bonar and Anthony Lisska

1994 Winter "The Granville Institute of Hydropathy," from The Philosopher of Mount Parnassus, by Charles Browne White

1993 Fall "Preppies on the Hill, Doane Academy and Its Predecessors," by Thomas Gallant

1993 Summer "A Tribute to Bill and Alma Utter," by G. Wallace Chessman

1993 Spring "A Visit to Granville in 1834," from an anonymous diary

1993 Winter "How Licking County Got Its Name," by Robert W. Alrutz

1992 Fall "A Brief Life history of Willard Warner, (Granville Native/Forty-Niner/Civil War General/United States Senator/Alabama Carpetbagger)," by Antony Lisska

1992 Summer "The Story behind Our Lady of Mercy School, How 'Fassett's Folly' Acquired a New Mission, by Ann Natalie Hansen

1992 Spring "It's God's Truth, William," The Story of the Welsh Hills, by Eric Evans

1992 Winter "Tied and Bound by More Than a Road," A Look at the Historical Relationship between Granville and Newark, by G. Wallace Chessman

1991 Fall "An Account of Two Beaver Dams in the North Western Part of Granville Township," by Charles W. Bryant, Oct. 1885

1991 Summer "The Big Swamp, The Licking Summit Reservoir, Buckeye Lake," by Daniel Bonar and Anthony Lisska

1991 Spring "The Battle of North Mountain:  A Military Disaster for Licking County," by Kevin Bennett

1991 Winter "The Newark-Granville Interurban Car:  Was It the First Interurban in the Country?" by Anthony Lisska

1990 Fall "Morris Schaff:  Author/Soldier/Historian/Public Servant," by Samuel D. Schaff

1990 Summer "Denison Summer Theater," by William Brasmer

1990 Spring "The First Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church," by Fanchion R. Lewis and the Editorial Board

1990 Winter "The First Ohioans:  Licking County's Paleoindian Pioneers," by Bradley T. Lepper

1989 Fall "Bushnell's History of Granville:  Centennial of Publication," by Henry Bushnell, 1889

1989 Summer "An Old-School Minister, Charles J Baldwin, Minister of the Granville Baptist Church, 1886 to 1913," by Arthur C. Baldwin, 1937

1989 Spring "Painter from the Past, Miss Minnie Belle Jones," by Fanchion Lewis

1989 Winter "The Abolitionists in Granville," by Horace King

1988 Fall "Bryn Du Farm and Bryn Du Mansion, Granville, Ohio," by Fanchion Lewis

1988 Summer "Checking Out Utopia," Architecture in Granville,  by Marilyn Hirshler

1988 Spring "Thomas D. Jones and Cincinnati," Granville Civil War Sculptor, by William Stewart

1988 Winter "The Religious Heritage of the Granville Settlers," by Richard Shiels

1987 Fall "Northwest Ordinance of 1787," by Robert Drake