{ "type": "place", "slug": "grove-city", "key": "P32592", "name": "Grove City (city)", "short_name": "Grove City", "place_type": "city", "county": { "name": "Franklin", "slug": "franklin", "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/county/franklin/" }, "population": 41416, "center": { "lat": 39.868, "lon": -83.1208 }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/place/grove-city/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/place/grove-city.json", "zips": [ { "zip": "43123", "name": "Grove City", "share": 0.6257, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/zip/43123/" } ], "water": [ { "pwsid": "OH2504412", "name": "Columbus Public Water System", "share": 0.9874361158432708, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2504412/" }, { "pwsid": "OH2502112", "name": "Oak Hills Mobile Home Park", "share": 0.009369676320272571, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2502112/" }, { "pwsid": "OH2570736", "name": "Monterey Care Center", "share": 0.0031942078364565587, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2570736/" } ], "history": { "key": "P32592", "name": "Grove City (city)", "kind": "city", "county": "Franklin", "summary": "Grove City grew out of a nineteen-lot plat that merchant William Foster Breck laid out in the summer of 1852 on his father-in-law's land along the Columbus and Harrisburg Turnpike, in Jackson Township, a stretch of southwestern Franklin County surveyed under Virginia's Revolutionary War bounty-land system rather than the rectangular federal grid used across most of Ohio. Tradition holds the village took its name from the groves of trees its founders left standing when they cleared the townsite. A turnpike, then a steam railroad and an interurban line, tied the farm village to Columbus seven miles to the north; it incorporated in 1866 and became a city in 1959 as its population passed 5,000. Adam G. Grant's 1889 subdivision park, named Beulah for his daughter, grew into Beulah Park, Ohio's first thoroughbred racetrack, which ran from 1923 to 2014 and has since become a housing development on the same ground. Grove City is now a Columbus suburb of more than 41,000 people, its historic Town Center still built around Breck's original Broadway plat.", "founded": { "settled": "1803", "platted": "1852", "incorporated": "1866", "by": "William Foster Breck platted the village; the underlying land belonged to his father-in-law, John Smith", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/grove-city", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, "name_origin": { "text": "Local histories say the founders named the new village for the groves of trees left standing when the townsite was cleared for Breck's 1852 plat. No source found for this file gives a competing explanation, though none of the sources are contemporary to 1852 either.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove_City,_Ohio", "source_host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, "native": { "text": "Grove City was platted in 1852 inside Jackson Township, which lies within the Virginia Military District: roughly 4.2 million acres between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers that Virginia kept for itself when it ceded its Northwest Territory claims in 1784, to be issued afterward as bounty land to its Revolutionary War veterans. Virginia surveyed its own district the way it always had, by metes and bounds -- describing each claim by trees, streams and compass bearings rather than laying the federal government's square-mile grid over it -- so the land here was cut into irregular, individually numbered surveys before any settler arrived, unlike the rectangular townships of the Congress Lands immediately to the north and east. The 1880 county history shows what that meant on the ground: Hugh Grant Sr. bought about 450 acres in the township and moved his family onto it in the spring of 1805, but could not at first locate his own purchase and 'squatted' near the Scioto River instead, where he died in the winter of 1806-07; a few years later James Seeds bought 1,000 acres out of 'Daniel Morgan's survey, number one thousand, two hundred and ninety six,' one of the individually numbered tracts -- named for the Revolutionary War officer who had been issued the underlying bounty warrant -- that the township's farms were pieced together from. The Scioto River runs along Jackson Township's eastern line, which puts Grove City on the river's west side. Both the 1880 county history and the Southwest Franklin County Historical Society describe a Native presence in the township at the time of Grant's 1805 settlement -- the older source calling Native people there 'numerous' but 'not usually troublesome,' the historical society placing Shawnee villages generally along the Scioto River between Columbus and Chillicothe, a stretch that takes in this reach of the river -- without naming a specific village, camp or trail inside what is now Grove City. No mound, earthwork or named Native settlement site within Grove City or Jackson Township turned up in the sources searched for this file. The nearest documented site is the Stringtown Site, a Late Archaic-period campsite roughly 3,000 to 8,000 years old that the Ohio History Connection has catalogued off Stringtown Road -- centuries before the historic-era nations named above, and evidence of people rather than a named nation. Broader Native history for the county as a whole -- the Adena and Hopewell mound-building cultures, the historic Wyandot, Shawnee, Lenape, Mingo and other nations elsewhere in Franklin County, and the treaties that ceded the county's land -- belongs in the separate Franklin County file, not this one.", "peoples": [ "Shawnee" ], "sites": [ { "name": "Stringtown Site", "type": "camp", "where": "off Stringtown Road near State Route 104, Grove City", "period": "Late Archaic, roughly 3,000 to 8,000 years ago", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/the-grove-city-mammoth", "source_host": "swfchs.org" } ], "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Military_District", "https://ohiohistory.libanswers.com/faq/372782", "https://archive.org/stream/historyoffrankli0000vari/historyoffrankli0000vari_djvu.txt", "https://www.swfchs.org/jackson-township", "https://www.swfchs.org/the-grove-city-mammoth" ] }, "timeline": [ { "year": "1803", "event": "The first permanent white settlers reach the area that becomes Jackson Township, including Percival Adams.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/jackson-township", "datetime": "1803", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1805", "event": "Hugh Grant Sr. moves his family onto a roughly 450-acre purchase in what becomes Jackson Township but, unable to locate his own metes-and-bounds survey, squats near the Scioto River instead; he is killed there in the winter of 1806-07 cutting a bee tree.", "source": "https://archive.org/stream/historyoffrankli0000vari/historyoffrankli0000vari_djvu.txt", "datetime": "1805", "source_host": "archive.org" }, { "year": "1815", "event": "Jackson Township is organized under its present name and boundaries, set off from Franklin Township.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/jackson-township", "datetime": "1815", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1832", "event": "Adam Gantz builds the brick farmhouse in Jackson Township later known as the Gantz Homestead, using clay dug and fired on the farm.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantz_Homestead", "datetime": "1832", "source_host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, { "year": "1846", "event": "William Foster Breck, a Carroll, Ohio merchant, scouts land belonging to his father-in-law John Smith in Jackson Township, the same year the log Highland Road Meeting House is raised nearby.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/grove-city", "datetime": "1846", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1852", "event": "Breck plats a 19-lot village on 15 1/4 acres of Smith's land east of the Columbus and Harrisburg Turnpike and opens Grove City's first store.", "source": "https://archive.org/stream/historyoffrankli0000vari/historyoffrankli0000vari_djvu.txt", "datetime": "1852", "source_host": "archive.org" }, { "year": "1866", "event": "Thirty-seven residents petition to incorporate Grove City on March 5; the village holds its first election May 10, choosing Dr. Joseph Bullen as its first mayor.", "source": "https://archive.org/stream/historyoffrankli0000vari/historyoffrankli0000vari_djvu.txt", "datetime": "1866", "source_host": "archive.org" }, { "year": "1884", "event": "The Cincinnati, Midland and Columbus Railroad completes a line and depot at Grove City.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/grove-city", "datetime": "1884", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1889", "event": "Adam G. Grant lays out a housing subdivision on former Breck land west of the rail line and builds a community park there, naming it Beulah for his daughter.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/beulah-park-history", "datetime": "1889", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1898", "event": "Grant's Grove City and Greenlawn Street Railway, an interurban line connecting the Beulah neighborhood to Columbus, makes its first run on October 31.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/grove-city", "datetime": "1898", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1923", "event": "The Capital City Racing Association runs Beulah Park's first four races on April 21 on a new half-mile track, establishing Ohio's first thoroughbred racing facility.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/beulah-park-history", "datetime": "1923", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1952", "event": "Ernest Good and his wife discover Late Archaic-period spear points off Stringtown Road at what the Ohio History Connection later catalogues as the Stringtown Site.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/the-grove-city-mammoth", "datetime": "1952", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1959", "event": "Grove City's population passes 5,000 and the village becomes a city.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/grove-city", "datetime": "1959", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "year": "1979-1998", "event": "Three Jackson Township farmhouses are added to the National Register of Historic Places: the Gantz Homestead (1979), the Samuel Landes House (1987) and the A.G. Grant Homestead (1998).", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Franklin_County,_Ohio", "datetime": "1979", "source_host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, { "year": "2014", "event": "Beulah Park runs its last race on May 3, the same day as the 140th Kentucky Derby, ending 91 years of racing at Grove City.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/beulah-park-history", "datetime": "2014", "source_host": "swfchs.org" } ], "stories": [ { "title": "William Foster Breck plats Grove City", "text": "William Foster Breck was born April 27, 1806, at Marietta in Washington County, Ohio, and made his early living as a merchant in Carroll, a small town in Fairfield County, where he eventually ran a grist mill, a hotel and a general store. In 1840 he married Elizabeth Campbell Smith of Worthington, whose father, John Smith, owned land along the newly built Columbus and Harrisburg Turnpike in Jackson Township; Breck and his wife bought 273 acres from her father in the mid-1840s, and by 1848 Breck had built a two-story brick house on the west side of the turnpike, its porch looking out over the road's daily traffic of buggies, wagons and coaches. In the summer of 1852, the 1880 county history records, 'a son-in-law, William F. Breck, caused the lands to be platted, and to this embryo village he gave the name it now bears' -- nineteen lots on 15 1/4 acres on the turnpike's east side, laid out with William Sibray, a brick mason, and George Weygandt, a carpenter; a third partner, Breck's brother-in-law Jeremiah Smith, had taken part in the early planning but died before the plat was finished. By local tradition the new village took its name from the groves of trees the founders left standing when they cleared the site. Breck opened Grove City's first store, became its first postmaster, moved in a nearby gristmill, added a steam sawmill and a brick-and-tile works, and helped build the Presbyterian meetinghouse in 1861; thirty-seven residents petitioned to incorporate the village on March 5, 1866, two years after Breck died in what local histories describe only as a 'tragic farm accident.'", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/grove-city", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "title": "Beulah Park: from subdivision park to Ohio's first thoroughbred track", "text": "In 1889 Adam G. Grant laid out a housing subdivision west of the rail line and downtown, on ground that had once belonged to Grove City founder William Foster Breck, and built a community park there to help sell the lots; he named it Beulah, for his daughter, and for its first years it hosted picnics, Civil War reunions, revivals, baseball games and dances rather than races. The earliest recorded horse racing at Beulah dates only to 1895, when local residents ran informal meets on a track there, and the grounds also hosted the Franklin County Fair from 1912 to 1918. Colonel James M. Westwater bought the property in 1918 and improved the track; he sold it to the Capital City Racing Association in 1922, which built a new half-mile track and ran Beulah's first four official races on April 21, 1923, establishing it that year as Ohio's first thoroughbred racing facility. Columbus contractor Robert J. Dienst bought into the track in 1933 and became sole owner in 1937, expanding it to a one-mile oval and building it into what fans came to call the 'Little Saratoga'; his family ran Beulah until 1983, when it sold for $4.5 million and was briefly renamed Darby Downs before a 1986 buyer restored the old name. Penn National Gaming bought the track in 2010 and, not wanting Beulah competing with its own nearby Hollywood Casino, moved its racing license out of state; the last race ran May 3, 2014, the same day as the 140th Kentucky Derby, before a crowd of about 5,000 wagering just $90,000, ending 91 years of racing. The 213-acre property was redeveloped starting in 2017 into Beulah Park, a mixed housing development with a municipal park, trails and a medical complex -- returning the ground to something close to Grant's original purpose as a neighborhood park built to help sell houses.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/beulah-park-history", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "title": "Metes and bounds: settling land inside the Virginia Military District", "text": "Grove City sits inside what was once the Virginia Military District, roughly 4.2 million acres between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers that Virginia held back for itself when it ceded its claims north of the Ohio River in 1784, to be issued afterward as bounty land to its Revolutionary War veterans. Virginia surveyed its own district the way it always had, by metes and bounds -- describing each claim by trees, creeks and compass bearings rather than laying the federal government's square-mile grid over it -- so Jackson Township, which the Scioto River runs along the eastern edge of, was cut into irregular, individually numbered surveys years before any settler broke ground there, unlike the neat rectangular townships of the Congress Lands just to the north and east. The effect on an actual settler shows up in the 1880 county history: Hugh Grant Sr. bought about 450 acres in the township and moved his family onto it in the spring of 1805, but, 'not knowing the exact location of his purchase,' he 'squatted' on open land near the river instead -- and was killed there in the winter of 1806-07 while cutting a bee tree, before he had ever sorted out his own boundary lines. A few years later James Seeds bought 1,000 acres carved out of what the same history calls 'Daniel Morgan's survey, number one thousand, two hundred and ninety six' -- one of hundreds of individually surveyed and numbered tracts across the district named for the Revolutionary War officer to whom the underlying bounty warrant had been issued, whether or not that officer ever set foot on the land. Grove City's own 1852 plat, and the farms around it, were assembled piece by piece out of surveys like these -- Daniel Morgan's among them -- rather than out of a single evenly gridded township.", "source": "https://archive.org/stream/historyoffrankli0000vari/historyoffrankli0000vari_djvu.txt", "source_host": "archive.org" }, { "title": "The Stringtown Site and Grove City's mammoth", "text": "In 1952 Ernest Good and his wife, an amateur-archaeologist couple from Grove City's Civic Drive, were searching farmland at Stringtown Road and Jackson Pike for Native American relics when they found something older: stemmed spear points that Ohio History Connection archaeology curator Brad Lepper later dated to the Late Archaic period, roughly 3,000 to 8,000 years old. The Ohio History Connection has since catalogued the find as the Stringtown Site, and over the following years the Goods turned up more than 250 projectile points there, enough that the location was likely a regular prehistoric campsite; they donated much of the collection to the state historical society between 1956 and 1963 and, in the 1970s, opened a room of their own home to the public as an informal 'Grove City Relic Museum.' A local historian who remembered visiting recalled arrowheads found along a former Native American trail leading down to the Scioto, in a stretch of the valley where, regional accounts say, Shawnee villages once stood between Columbus and Chillicothe. Grove City has a second, older mystery from the same corner of town: in 1899 workers digging clay at a brick-and-tile factory north of Columbus Street uncovered two twelve-foot tusks and a partial skull, which an Ohio State University professor identified at the time as a mastodon, though a modern look at surviving photographs of the tusks' curvature suggests it may actually have been a woolly mammoth. Nearly a hundred local residents turned out to be photographed at the pit, and the bones were shipped off to Ohio State and later to the state historical society -- where a handwritten note in the archives says they were disposed of in December 1902, so the remains no longer survive to settle the question.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/the-grove-city-mammoth", "source_host": "swfchs.org" }, { "title": "The 1996 Ferrellgas explosion", "text": "On the afternoon of Monday, July 8, 1996, a propane tank caught fire at the Ferrellgas facility on Broadway just south of Grove City's Town Center, and the blaze spread from tank to tank in a cascading series of explosions that threw flames more than 100 feet into the air and sent black smoke up for miles. Jackson Township fire crews and Grove City police reached the scene within minutes of the first blast, around 2:30 p.m., and Fire Chief Danny Ashcraft ordered an evacuation of the surrounding area, worried that any of the facility's 30,000-gallon tanks -- or a matching tank next door at Southern Propane, or three more sitting on a rail car behind both properties -- might go up as well. 'If any of those tanks breached, we were in trouble,' Assistant Fire Chief Les Guy told the Grove City Record afterward. 'It would have gone off like a rocket and there's no telling where or what it could have hit.' Since the main fire could not be extinguished, crews instead poured water on the surrounding tanks to keep them cool while Columbus Fire and neighboring departments sent mutual aid to what became a four-alarm blaze; the adjacent Sue Ellen's Restaurant burned down in a secondary fire, and three men were taken to Ohio State University's hospital with burns. Principal Tom Rutan opened Grove City High School as a shelter, where cafeteria staff served an evening meal to roughly 150 evacuated residents before an all-clear let them go home by 7 p.m. A second, apparently unrelated fire broke out that same afternoon at a gas station on North Broadway, raising a brief fear that the propane blast had somehow reached the storm sewers before firefighters confirmed the two fires were unconnected.", "source": "https://www.swfchs.org/jackson-township", "source_host": "swfchs.org" } ], "photos": [ { "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grove_City_at_Fair_Time_-_DPLA_-_badd09399d3f577bb881443f0e821dd6.jpg", "file": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Grove_City_at_Fair_Time_-_DPLA_-_badd09399d3f577bb881443f0e821dd6.jpg", "caption": "Horses at the Grove City fair track.", "credit": "Columbus Metropolitan Library, via Digital Public Library of America / Ohio Digital Network", "license": "no known copyright restrictions", "year": "1900", "basis": "Library digital-collection item marked public domain / no known US copyright restrictions", "thumb_url": "/history/photos/P32592_0.jpg", "w": 2465, "h": 1485, "license_url": null, "host": "commons.wikimedia.org" }, { "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_School,_Grove_City,_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_3e8f5fed77dc20b039ff941d7d38623b_(page_1).jpg", "file": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/High_School%2C_Grove_City%2C_Ohio_-_DPLA_-_3e8f5fed77dc20b039ff941d7d38623b_%28page_1%29.jpg", "caption": "Postcard of the Grove City high school building, postmarked November 4, 1912.", "credit": "Columbus Metropolitan Library, via Digital Public Library of America / Ohio Digital Network", "license": "no known copyright restrictions", "year": "1912", "basis": "Published postcard before 1930; library digital-collection item marked public domain", "thumb_url": "/history/photos/P32592_1.jpg", "w": 4063, "h": 2526, "license_url": null, "host": "commons.wikimedia.org" }, { "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beulah_Park_-_DPLA_-_6fdfee50fd77f1498818f02594c8444d.jpg", "file": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Beulah_Park_-_DPLA_-_6fdfee50fd77f1498818f02594c8444d.jpg", "caption": "Beulah Park racetrack, in a photo advertising races from September 18 to October 9 with $1.50 admission.", "credit": "Columbus Metropolitan Library, via Digital Public Library of America / Ohio Digital Network", "license": "no known copyright restrictions", "year": "1926", "basis": "Published before 1930; library digital-collection item marked public domain", "thumb_url": "/history/photos/P32592_2.jpg", "w": 4072, "h": 2701, "license_url": null, "host": "commons.wikimedia.org" }, { "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grove_city_gantz_homestead.jpg", "file": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Grove_city_gantz_homestead.jpg", "caption": "The Gantz Homestead and garden, the 1832 brick farmhouse of Adam Gantz, now in Gantz Park.", "credit": "Wdzinc, via Wikimedia Commons", "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "year": "2011", "basis": "Commons licence tag (CC BY-SA 3.0)", "thumb_url": "/history/photos/P32592_3.jpg", "w": 3872, "h": 2592, "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/", "host": "commons.wikimedia.org" }, { "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grove_city_ag_grant_homestead.jpg", "file": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Grove_city_ag_grant_homestead.jpg", "caption": "The A.G. 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