This metal object is advertising from a Majestic electric range sold by Myer Hardware Company in Grove City. The range was popular and was promoted as “The Range with a Reputation.” Nothing else is known about the business that apparently was once located in the downtown business community. The Majestic brand is still sold.

Down and dirty. One of the most popular summer events ever sponsored by Grove City Parks and Recreation was the annual Mud Volleyball games at Beulah Park. Participants from Grove City and southwest Franklin County participated.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, an African American Civil War abolitionist, poet and public speaker, among other accomplishments once owned land in the area of Beatty Road and Harrisburg Pike in the 1800s. In 1845, she was one of the first black women to be published in the United States. Her farm is shown on an 1872 Jackson Township map.

Cread Lawless is pictured with a neighbor at Green’s Heritage Days at Commercial Point. Lawless was an early member of the fire department and also responsible for organizing neighbors along Arbutus Avenue to construct curbs on the street. A park at Kingston and Arbutus is named in his honor.

Tiney McComb, left, president of the Heartland Bank rides in one of the first Grove City Community Parades (now the Arts in the Alley Parade.) Tiney’s bank was the first horse drawn unit to participate in the parade.