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Van Wert one of Ohio History Connection s recipients of National Park Service grant
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VAN WERT The Ohio History Connection announced that projects in Painesville, Piqua, Ravenna, and Van Wert are recipients of the National Park Service’s Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program.
The National Park Service’s Paul Bruhn
Historic Revitalization Grants Program assists Ohio’s Main Street
communities with the rehabilitation of historic buildings that
prioritize economic impact, use of commercial first-floor space and
upper floor residential space, and encourage reactivation of vacant
spaces. Ohio was one of eight states to be awarded this funding in
Several years ago, former Orrville High School teacher Ned Hostetler wrote about the various U.S. presidents who traveled through Orrville.
“The Sept. 7, 1880, edition of the Orrville paper,” Hostetler said, “printed a small item about President Rutherford B. Hays, his wife, Lucy, and General William T. Sherman traveling west through town. About a month later, on Oct. 12, 1880, a small item told about former President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia, traveling east through Orrville.
“The year 1912 was an amazing one for Orrville residents,” Hostetler pointed out. “All the major candidates for President stopped in town and spoke. In March the Courier reported that President William Howard Taft was met by a large crowd that gathered at the depot. Then in May, former President Theodore Roosevelt, who was also campaigning for the Republicans, stopped in town. About three weeks before the election that year, Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, the Democratic candidate fo