Volume I: A Purpose, A Plan, A Place
Editors: Tony Lisska and Louis Middleman

Volume I is subtitled A Purpose, A Plan, A Place. Edited by Tony Lisska and Louis Middleman, it features an introduction and six sections focusing sequentially on Granville's prehistory (including Native American mound-builders), Yankee settlement, the Civil War era, World War I, World War II, and post WWII through the contemporary period. The authors are nine local historians and scholars with expertise in these eras.

Volume II: Reflections and Impressions
Editor: Clarke L. Wilhelm

The second volume, Reflections and Impressions, comprises a series of essays on various topics, such as "The Literary Culture of Granville," "Food in Granville," and 'The Granville Public Schools." It also includes significant reprints from the newsletter of the Granville Historical Society, The Historical Times. Volume II features 20 authors and was edited by Clarke Wilhelm.

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Title: Granville, Ohio: A Study In Continuity And Change, Vol. III
Editors: Theresa S. Overholser and Florence W. Hoffman

Volume III, Images: Past and Present, was created by Florence Hoffman and Theresa Overholser. Pictorial in content with extensive captions, the volume features photos and drawings of bygone eras as well as the recent past. The collection draws heavily on the archives of the Granville Historical Society and on important institutional and individual sources.

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By Bill Kirkpatrick

Running out of good farmland, residents of Granville, Massachusetts, make the dramatic decision to leave their home for a new start in central Ohio. Awaiting them is nothing resembling the Granville, Ohio, of today, but a dense forest on the edge of the country …

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By B. Kevin Bennett

By the autumn of 1860 the United States was on the verge of civil war. A small Ohio community best known as a center of education and culture, Granville responded to the conflict from the day Fort Sumter was fired on until the last troops returned home, both on the battlefield and the home front. An incredible number of individuals from the Granville area rose to become senior military leaders, and one would be hard pressed to find any other similarly sized community in the nation that matched, let alone exceeded, its importance. This is the extraordinary story of one village’s outsized role during the greatest crisis in U.S. history.

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Edited by Maggie Brooks

The Civil War affected nearly every family in the North and South, having the highest number of casualties per capita of any war in which the United States has been involved. Dr. Edwin Sinnet and his wife, Sarah Wright Sinnet, of Granville were among those affected by the war. Dr. Sinnet served as a field surgeon and as medical director of hospitals near the battlegrounds. Sarah was his young wife, left at home to cope with the difficulties of managing a household and two young children during his years of service. This volume reproduces excerpts from the letters they wrote to each other during those tumultuous years. The letters are a fascinating glimpse into their daily lives and concerns, containing comments on why the war was necessary, the life of soldiers in camp, instructions on how to handle money matters, and the ailments of people on the homefront.

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By Theresa Overholser

Full of stories (and a few secrets), the Old Colony Burying Ground remains one of the gems of Granville, Ohio. This book provides both the history and a walking tour of this nineteenth-century cemetery, introducing you to the lives and times of the people buried there, . . . as well as the ups and downs of the cemetery itself: its origins, decline, and recent renewal. With asides on topics from stone- carving to war veterans, this Pocket History offers a fascinating way to think about and walk through two centuries of village history.

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From a 19th-century team of loosely organized volunteers responding to the village bell to today’s highly trained professionals, the firefighters of Granville have been keeping the Village and Township safe for two centuries.

In this thoroughly researched volume, B. Kevin Bennett recounts the history of firefighting in Granville, including the story of the most famous fires (the 1927 Broadway fire and the 1982 Opera House fire), the Department’s relationship with Denison University, and the way that the organization and infrastructure of Granville’s emergency services have changed and adapted over the years.

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By Laura Evans

During the last half of the nineteenth century, several American individuals amassed the greatest personal fortunes in history to that point. Chicago, New York, and Cleveland were among the seats of these empires, but so too—well above any reasonable expectation for a village of fewer than 1,000 people—was Granville, Ohio, thanks to local coal and transport baron John Sutphin Jones.

That Granville had a Gilded-Age tycoon among its residents is not merely a historical curiosity. His presence permanently left its mark on the village—physically in the form of buildings and spaces (including the Granville Inn, Bryn Du Mansion, and Monomoy Place), and culturally in the feel and identity of the town—and continues to resonate more than a century later.

This volume also includes two shorter features:

• “To the Manor Born: Sallie Jones Sexton is a Granville Legend,” by Wayne Piper, about John Sutphin Jones’ legendary daughter Sallie Jones Sexton, a fascinating character in her own right.

• “Monomoy Place: A Brief History,” by James Hale, on the Joneses’ village residence and one of the most important houses in Granville.

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Edited by Theresa S. Overholser and Anthony J. Lisska; edited and compiled by Laura Evans; introduction by Richard Shiels.

Jacob Little, the pastor of the Granville Congregational Church, wrote the first historical narrative history of the village of Granville, Ohio. Little arrived in Granville in 1827 and spent the next thirty-eight years as the shepherd of his flock. The text is both a chronological narrative together with an account of individual events that Little deemed important for the story of Granville. The text has been supplemented with drawings, maps, and pictures from local archives and with numerous content boxes written by local authors.

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