The Historical Times: Back Issues
The Historical Times is issued quarterly by The Granville Historical Society and has been published for more than 20 years. The current editor is Tom Martin. One benefit of joining the GHS is that you receive each issue of the Historical Times in the mail as it is published.
Most issues of the Historical Times from 1988-2009 are available here for reading in Adobe Reader PDF format. Clicking on the issue date will take you to a PDF of that issue. For a complete index to past issues (through 2009), please click here. All past issues are also available for reading at the Society's Museum at 115 East Broadway, Granville, OH. Contact us for more information.
Historical Times IssueLead Article
2009 Fall"Religious roots of Granville's settlers," by Richard D. Shiels
2009 Summer"Early 19th century Roman Catholicism but a stone's throw from Granville," by Anthony J. Lisska
2009 Spring"Lure of the gold rush," compiled by Ann Natalie Hansen
2009 Winter"The history of your house," by Cynthia Cunningham Cort
2008 Summer"Frank Packard's Granville, A Prominent Architect Alters the Footprint of Granville," by Anthony J. Lisska
2008 Spring"A Planned Community, the Licking Company's Role is Well Documented," by Theresa Overholser
2008 Winter"Matters of Faith, A Father and a Son and Their Respective Religious Journeys," by Theresa Overholser
2007 Fall"Sign the Pledge," delivered by Jon Farris, edited by Theresa Overholser
2007 Summer"Music in Granville During Its First Century," by William Osborne
2007 SpringThe 175th Anniversary of Denison University," by Anthony J. Lisska
2006 Winter"Edward Andrew Deeds and the History of Denison's Deeds Field," by Brian Shue and Jason Wright
2006 Spring/Summer"Industry in Licking County," by Shirley Adams Palmer
2006 March"On Doing Local History," by Anthony J. Lisska
2005 December"Denison University in the Early 1850s, The Great Removal Issue," by Erin Currie and Lauren Molten
2005 August"Her Story: Famous Women in Granville History," by Lindsey Nikolai and Mary Mooney
2005 May"Observations on the Natural and Cultural Resources of the Spring Valley," by Andrew M. Mickelson
2005 February"Granville's big historical moment was a riot!..or was it?" by Kevin Bennett and Tom Martin
2004 Spring "The Preview of the New Granville History Bicentennial," by Tony Lisska
2004 Winter"Ellen Hayes, Granville Author, Political Radical, Wellesley College Mathematician," by Anthony Lisska
2003 Fall"The Very Rich Life of Anthony Pinkerton Prichard," by Theresa Overholser
2003 Summer"That was Woody," by Robert McDaniel as told to Louis Middleman
2003 Spring"The First Pulpit in Granville, The Story of the Village Post Office Mural," by Anthony J. Lisska
2003 Winter"The Ohio and Granville of 1831: The Religious and Social Conditions," by Francis W. Shepardson
2002 Fall"A backward Glance at the Forward Pass: Giving Credit Where Credit is DU!," By Anthony J. Lisska
2002 Summer"The Stills of Granville: From Corn Whiskey to Peach Brandy, With a Little Cherry Bounce on the Side," by Anthony J. Lisska
2002 Spring"The Importance of Village Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Ohio," by Dale T. Knobel
2002 Winter"Clara Sinnett White, 1862-1947," by William Hoffman
2001 Fall"William Rainey Harper, The Granville Years," Anthony J. Lisska
2001 Summer"Sylvester Horton Rosecrans, The "Other" Rosecrans from Homer," by Anthony J. Lisska
2001 Spring"The Old Granville and The New," by Francis Wayland Shepardson, 1899
2001 Winter"Origins of the Modern Granville Water Works 1885-1886," by Robert J. Sauer
2000 Fall"James Gilruth: The Story of a Nineteenth Century Circuit Rider," by Tony Stoneburner
2000 Summer"James Gilruth: Methodist Circuit-rider," by Tony Stoneburner
2000 Spring"The 4th of July Celebration, from the Granville Times," July 8, 1915
2000 Winter"A Supreme Court Justice, a Senator, Two Generals and a Stove Maker: Civil War Friends and Citizen-Soldiers," by Anthony J. Lisska
1999 Fall"The Old Academy Building: Standing Proudly for 166 Years"
1999 Summer"Tracing the Granville Feeder Canal," by Albert Watson Davison, Jr.
1999 Spring"The Early Days of the Granville Golf Course," by Bob Evans
1999 Winter"Winter Fun In Granville," by Bob Evans
1998 Fall"The Coming of Age of Nellie Oakes, Part II," by Megan Catherine Lisska
1998 Summer"The Granville Riot, Granville's Reaction to the 1836 Abolitionist Convention Held at the Bancroft Barn on north Street," by Henry Howe, 1836, and "The Coming of Age of Nellie Oakes, Part I," by Megan Catherine Lisska
1998 Spring"A New-Year's Sermon, A composite of Jacob Little's new-year sermons from 1838, 1849, 1852, 1853, and 1854," by James Boggs
1998 Winter"Major General Charles Griffin, Granville's Forgotten Hero," by B. Kevin Bennett
1997 Fall"Hubert Howe Bancroft, Historian of the West," by Ann Natalie Hansen
1997 Summer"The Granville Furnace," by William Hoffman
1997 Spring"The House on Loudon Street," by Ann Natalie Hansen
1997 Winter"A Memorial to a Beloved Wife Establishes a Literary Tradition," by Paul Bennett
1996 Fall"Some Myths About Harmon-hyphen-Burke and Their Field," by G. E. Meyers
1996 Summer"The Hub of Ohio: A collection of Late Nineteenth Century Granville Advertisements," by the editors
1996 Spring"The Church Builder in Newark Who Became the Hero of a Willa Cather Novel," by Anthony Lisska
1996 Winter"From Quarry to Park: A History of Sugarloaf," by Marilyn Jung
1995 Fall"Fifty Years of Fidelity to a Fine Ideal," by Charles Browne White, July 31, 1930
1995 Summer"The Ku Klux Klan in Licking County," by B. Kevin Bennett
1995 Spring"Native American Earthworks Sculpt Lunar Odyssey," by Richard Holden, The Earlhamite, Vol. 105, No. 1, Autumn 1984
1995 Winter"The Influence of St. Luke's on the early Life of Granville," from The Granville Times, May 8, 1927
1994 Fall"Remembering Minnie Hite Moody," by Paul Bennett
1994 Spring"The Deep Cut, Ohio's Greatest Engineering Feat in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," by Daniel Bonar and Anthony Lisska
1994 Winter"The Granville Institute of Hydropathy," from The Philosopher of Mount Parnassus, by Charles Browne White
1993 Fall"Preppies on the Hill, Doane Academy and Its Predecessors," by Thomas Gallant
1993 Summer"A Tribute to Bill and Alma Utter," by G. Wallace Chessman
1993 Spring"A Visit to Granville in 1834," from an anonymous diary
1993 Winter"How Licking County Got Its Name," by Robert W. Alrutz
1992 Fall"A Brief Life history of Willard Warner, (Granville Native/Forty-Niner/Civil War General/United States Senator/Alabama Carpetbagger)," by Antony Lisska
1992 Summer"The Story behind Our Lady of Mercy School, How 'Fassett's Folly' Acquired a New Mission, by Ann Natalie Hansen
1992 Spring"It's God's Truth, William," The Story of the Welsh Hills, by Eric Evans
1992 Winter"Tied and Bound by More Than a Road," A Look at the Historical Relationship between Granville and Newark, by G. Wallace Chessman
1991 Fall"An Account of Two Beaver Dams in the North Western Part of Granville Township," by Charles W. Bryant, Oct. 1885
1991 Summer"The Big Swamp, The Licking Summit Reservoir, Buckeye Lake," by Daniel Bonar and Anthony Lisska
1991 Spring"The Battle of North Mountain: A Military Disaster for Licking County," by Kevin Bennett
1991 Winter"The Newark-Granville Interurban Car: Was It the First Interurban in the Country?" by Anthony Lisska
1990 Fall"Morris Schaff: Author/Soldier/Historian/Public Servant," by Samuel D. Schaff
1990 Summer"Denison Summer Theater," by William Brasmer
1990 Spring"The First Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church," by Fanchion R. Lewis and the Editorial Board
1990 Winter"The First Ohioans: Licking County's Paleoindian Pioneers," by Bradley T. Lepper
1989 Fall"Bushnell's History of Granville: Centennial of Publication," by Henry Bushnell, 1889
1989 Summer"An Old-School Minister, Charles J Baldwin, Minister of the Granville Baptist Church, 1886 to 1913," by Arthur C. Baldwin, 1937
1989 Spring"Painter from the Past, Miss Minnie Belle Jones," by Fanchion Lewis
1989 Winter"The Abolitionists in Granville," by Horace King
1988 Fall"Bryn Du Farm and Bryn Du Mansion, Granville, Ohio," by Fanchion Lewis
1988 Summer"Checking Out Utopia," Architecture in Granville, by Marilyn Hirshler
1988 Spring"Thomas D. Jones and Cincinnati," Granville Civil War Sculptor, by William Stewart
1988 Winter"The Religious Heritage of the Granville Settlers," by Richard Shiels
1987 Fall"Northwest Ordinance of 1787," by Robert Drake
