This old mill is located on Rt. 762 between Harrisburg and Orient on Big Darby Creek at the abandoned steel bridge. There is no identifiable name on the building. It doesn’t appear to be the old Harrisburg Roller Mill once operated by W. W. Coontz. Anyone who can identify this building please send a note to swfchsohio@gmail.com. The Harrisburg Roller Mill, also pictured on the website, sold Glad Tidings flour in 50-pound sacks and another product known as Splendid Flour.

Are you aware there is a Sept. 11, 2001 memorial in Grove City? It can be viewed at the Jackson Township station at 4900 Buckeye Parkway. The beam was removed from the wreckage of the World Trade Center after the infamous terrorist attack.

Mill Street was once an important part of the early town and it is remembered with a historical marker placed at the entrance to Beulah Park off the Columbus Street extension. This early wagon trail led the way to William Foster Breck’s sawmill just south of the old Farmers Exchange, today known as the Mill Street Market Building. Breck was the founder of Grove City.

Bill Ferguson Sr., president of the Grove City Jaycees, was a speaker at the organizations state convention at the Deshler Hotel in Columbus. In attendance was President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Grove City became a village just a few years before the Civil War. Several men from the small settlement joined military units formed in Columbus. Many men in the Union Army were introduced to a new soap and they continued to use it after the war. In 1878, that product was given a name, Ivory. It was much better than the lye soap commonly used at the time.