Compiled for Big Walnut Area Historical Society by Polly Horn
 

Local History is a collection of facts and stories gleaned from newspapers, histories and individuals who lived the events.  I have made every effort to be sure the incidents are accurate but errors do happen so please contact me if you have proof of errors and we will work together to correct them. 

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General Big Walnut Area History is followed by Townships and Villages

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                       Identification of Photos
             Most Recently Added to this Site

Big Walnut Area History
Prehistoric
   
Glaciers
Early Settlers
   
Forests, Prairie. Bridges
Community Library

   Also see:
         Community Library Ohio's 200th Display

Schools
   
Big Walnut,  Center Village / Harlem, Galena,   
     Sunbury
Transportation
    Maps, Stagecoach, Railroad
   
S Curve in Letts Avenue
Wars
  
American Revolution,   War of 1812,   Civil War,
    WWI,    WWII Korean War  Vietnam,   War on Terror
    Ohio Fallen Heroes Memorial

Outstanding Historical Figures
 
  Curtis, Ben - golfer
    Lane, Foster - aviator
    Rosecrans, William Starke - Major General
    Sherman, Everett - bridge builder
    Southworth, Billy - baseball manager
    Willis, Governor Frank B. - Ohio governor
Townships
   Berkshire
   Genoa

   Harlem

   Kingston
   Porter
   Trenton

Villages
   Galena Village History

         Galena Houses
       
Galena School

   Sunbury

          Businesses
          Churches
          Clubs and Organizations
          Doctors and Health
          Military
          Post Office
          Recreation and Sports
          Schools
          Town Hall and Village Square
          Weather
         
FIRSTS:
Nescafe - First Instant Coffee and
    Instant Food
NestlesNestea - First instant tea

First Ohio State Fair Butter Cow -
    made with Sunbury Co-op
    Creamery Butter
RFD - First in the nation    
  

          

Most Recently Added
Added in February 2021
Prairie Run School - 2020 from Lenny Lepola

Added in June 2020
Ball Parks and Gyms
Historic Marker - Sunbury Ball Park
Added in May 2020

President Trump Honors Krebs

Added in March 2020
Sunbury School 1913 from Jeff Sellers

Added in January 2020
Conklin & Irwin -1930 sales booklet
from Dan Shaw

Added in November 2019
Veterans' Day
November 2019 in Sunbury Memorial Park

WWll Veterans Buried in Sunbury Memorial Park -
compiled by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen

Korean War Veterans Buried in Sunbury Memorial Park-
compiled by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen

Vietnam War Veterans Buried in Sunbury Memorial Park -
by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen


Added in April 2019
Newer Photo of Condit Station from Larry Lane
in
Railroad Advantages

Added in March 2019
Genoe Town House

Added in February 2019

Benajah Cook, Founder
Blakely & Williams Store
Whitney Insurance Agency

Added in January 2019
Berkshire School 1916-24
1928 Class Sunbury School - 50th Reunion
Sunbury 4-H 1925

Added in December 2018

Added in November
Fravel Brothers from Harlem
Veterans Honored in Blue Church Cemetery

Added in May
Korean War Veterans Buried in Sunbury Memorial Park - by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen
Vietnam War Veterans Buried in Sunbury Memorial Park - by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen

Added in February

1908 or 1909 Sunbury High School - from John Bland
1917-18 Juniors In Sunbury - from Jim Gorsuch

Added in January 2018
1917-18 Juniors In Sunbury School
Kline Manufacturing Co-1958
 

Added in December
World War I thru Vietnam Veterans Buried in Porter Cemeteries by Suzanne Allen

Added in August

WWI - Vietnam Veterans Buried in East Liberty compiled by Suzanne Allen
WWI - Vietnam Veterans Buried in East Liberty compiled by Suzanne Allen 

Added in June

Sunbury News has New Owner- 2017
Gulf War Veterans Buried in Galena Cemetery  by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen
American Legion Honors Allen

 2017
Added in May 2017
World War II Veterans Buried in Burnside Cemetery -compiled by Suzanne Allen

Korean War Veterans Buried in Burnside Cemetery compiled by Suzanne Allen

Veterans of the Vietnam Conflict buried in Burnside Cemetery
- compiled by Suzanne Allen

Added in April 2017

Rolls of Veterans Honored April 21, 2017
Korean War Veterans Buried in Galena Cemetery -
compiled by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen
Navy Deep Freeze Antarctica Operation
-
compiled by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen
Veterans of the Vietnam War buried in Galena Cemetery -compiled by   Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen
Spanish- American War Veterans Buried in Galena Cemetery-
compiled by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen

World War II Veterans buried in Galena Cemetery- compiled by Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen
 

Added in February 2017
Conklin & Irwin- 1930 Granville Street

See the Bicentennial Articles running in The Sunbury News

 

 

Compiled for Big Walnut Area Historical Society by Polly Horn

* Articles ran in The Sunbury News in the Because You Asked column in 2003
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* Articles ran in The Sunbury News in the Because You Asked column in 20
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SUNBURY BICENTENNIAL ARTICLES

Articles by Polly Horn published in The Sunbury News

Sunbury Plat Map

January 7 The Sunbury News
January 14 Why the Name Sunbury
January 21 Roots in Pennsylvania
January 28 Farmer's Bank Saved by Buttons and a Raccoon
February 4 Sunbury's Glacial Boulders
March 3 Myers Family from Pennsylvania to Ohio
Sunbury Plat Map
March 10 William Myers Family
March 24 Remembering Sunbury of 1846-Amos L. Shangle
March 31 Lawrence and Eliza Brown Myers
May 5 Henry and Martha- Two of Lawrence's Children
May 12 Thomas Philip Myers, Lawrence's Son
May 19 Digging Again at 44 Burrer Drive
June 9 Reviving Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Sunbury
June 16 Life without Smart Phones
June 22 Sunbury's Centennial
July 14 Spring Fed Creeks Bring Businesses to Sunbury (Gammill's Hoop Factory and Burrer Mill)
July 21 What  a Difference an E Makes!
Early Sunbury Mills and Stone Quarry
July 28 Burrer's Mill Succeeds in Sunbury
August 4 Electricity Comes to Sunbury
August 11 Cook's Harness Shop -Cooks of Down-Town Sunbury
Oatfield Whitney's Memories from 1930
August 25 At the Cross Roads- the Boyer Hotel
September 9 Hezekiah Roberts or Hezekiah Rogers, part 1
September 29 Hezekiah Roberts or Hezekiah Rogers, Part 2
October 6 First Football Team in Sunbury
November 24 S Curve in Letts Avenue
December 1, 2016 Christmas-on-the-Square
December 11, 2016 Remembering Sunbury 1912-1918 with Mildred Weiss Tarshish
December 29, 2016
 
Blue Grass Grove with Esther McCormick
 

YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED

Who are these girls, their church? photo from Bill Bronsch

Can you identify the people in this photo or the location  of the business?
International Harvester Company in South Condit - postcard from Jeff Sellers

Do you have a photo of the old Sunbury Firetruck? We would like to add it to the story of the fire department.

Also looking for a photo of the jail cell which was inside the east door of the Town Hall.
contact me

Do You Know about the Railroad School #9,
Victory Camp on Big Walnut Road
or Franklin Station
?  We would like photos to post  contact me


Do you know when the Greyhound bus stopped picking up people at the Grill in Sunbury?   contact me

Still Looking for Information About the Quilt
1919 Genoa Township Quilt of Soldiers and Sailors research by Carolyn Maruggi
Franklin Railroad Station in Genoa Township contributed by Florobel Lacher

Looking for identification of these photos
Center VIllage High School 1919 - from Pam Evener
Center Village School Before 1919- from Pam Evener
Berkshire 1894 - photo from Terry Easton
Galena 7th and 8th Grades - Harold Roof Teacher
Galena School Grades and Year Unknown- Harold Roof, teacher
Linco Service Station
Help Us Identify These Photos
East Side -postcard circa 1909   Help!
1919 Genoa Township Quilt of Soldiers and Sailors research by Carolyn Maruggi

Baseball Players  AND other teams?  need identification
Condit Cornet Band - 1890 photo from Ken Crowl
Employees of Sunbury Manufacturing Company - photo from Ken Crowl
Nestles Sunbury Picnic, July 4, 1921

1908 or 1909 SunburyHigh School- from John Bland
 Sunbury 1920 Basketball Team

Sunbury School Photo 1923 - Photo from Don Edwards
Sunbury School Primary Students about 1924

Ross Dent Road School 19071913,  1914,  1915,  1916,  1925 or 26

Trenton Township Special School 1886-7

 


 

 

Big Walnut Area History

Prehistoric: Galena:
Sunbury's Glacial Boulders
Glacier Boulder*
       Biggest Rock - ODNR
Ancient Ohio Trail - Plan to travel through
        Ohio's ancient past
Also see:
Community Library Ohio's 200th Display

     Galena Houses

 
Early Settlers:

Big Walnut Area: SUNBURY:
 

AROUND THE SQUARE:

BUSINESSES:

CHURCHES:

CLUBS:

HEALTH AND WELL BEING:

LANDMARKS:

MILITARY- See Individual Wars
listed under WARS below

RECREATION

 

WEATHER:

Schools:  

   Centralized Schools

CENTER VILLAGE - HARLEM;

GALENA SCHOOL:

SUNBURY SCHOOL:

   Consolidated School: 
        Big Walnut Local Schools 1950-

 

 
Transportation:  

 

 

Wars:   Just a Common Soldier by Larry Vaincourt
                                a.k.a. A Soldier Died Today

American Revolution

War of 1812

Civil War

   

 

 

Spanish American War

World War I

 

 

World War II

   Navy Operation Deep Freeze
    in Antarctica
   •  Veteran buried in Galena Cemetery
-        compiled by Suzanne Allen

Korean War

       Spearman, Corporal Harry L.

       Korea War Veterans Buried in
        Berkshire Cemetery-
compiled by
        Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen

       Korean War Veterans Buried in
         Burnside Cemetery
- compiled by
        Suzanne Allen

     Korean War Veterans buried in
       Galena Cemetery
-
compiled by
       Suzanne Allen

      Korean War Veterans Buried in
       Sunbury Memorial Park
-
compiled by
        Suzanne Allen and Warren Owen
 

Vietnam Conflict

The Gulf War 

      •  Gulf War Veterans Buried in Galena
          Cemetery
 by Suzanne Allen and
          Warren Owen


 

War on Terrorism


 

BIG WALNUT AREA TOWNSHIPS
also see Thumbnail History Sketches and Maps

Berkshire Township:   Kingston Township:
 
Genoa Township:   Porter Township:

 

 
Harlem Township:   Trenton Township:

 

 

 

Community Library Displays
for Ohio's Bicentennial

Famous People with
            Big Walnut Ties

Displays by Margaret Arnold

Prehistoric Ohio in Big Walnut - January 2003
Community Library - February 2003
Berkshire Township - March 2003
Trenton Township - April 2003
Harlem Township - May 2003
Genoa Township - July 2003
Kingston Township - September 2003

This is a work in progress. 
More History articles will be added
 as time and money permits.

Porter Township - November 2003
 

Other Sites with History or Photos from the Big Walnut Area
delawarecounty
memory.org - Community Library site
Greeting from Delaware, Ohio - Picture Postcards of Delaware County, Ohio
 

See What was Happening in the World in the Year You were Born?
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