Nomination for Colony Burying Ground, Old

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NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 10024-0018 (Oct. 1990) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 10-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. 1. Name of Property Old Colony Burying Ground, Old Cemetery (LIC-251-15) other names/site number Location 250 South Main Street street & number N/A - not for publication city or town - - vicinity code 3. State/Federal Agency Certification Signature of certifying official/Title Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society State of Federal agency and bureau 4. National Park Service Certification entered in the National Register. - See continuation sheet. - determined not eligible for the - removed from the National - other, (explain:) Granville zip code 43023 Date state Register.

Ohio Registration Form National Register National Register of Historic Places APR 2 9 2005 This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions.

Place additional historic nameOld Colony Burying Ground As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that thisxx nomination In my opinion, the property - meets - does not meet the National Register criteria. ([] See continuation sheet for additional I hereby certify that the property is: comments.) Licking, OH Name of Property 5. Classification Ownership of Property Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count.) - private - building(s) LX public-local * district _ sites L object _ Total Name of related multiple property listing Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register Granville Historic Resources MRA, 1980 6. Function or Use Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) 7.

Description (Describe the historic and current condition of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) public-State structure Noncontributing foundation other roof walls public-Federal Materials Narrative Description Category of Property Architectural Classification County and State Historic Functions Funerary: Cemetery (Check as many boxes as apply) (Check only one box) Old Colony Burying Ground United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio SECTION 7.

NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION the Village of Granville, the 1805 Old Colony Burying Ground is the site, on the downward slope of the hill flanking the floodplain of the Raccoon Creek, has a handsome roll to its simply landscaped terrain South Main Street residences to the west, trees and a ravine to the east, a residence and woods to the north and the Granville Milling Co. to the The highest point of the cemetery, in the northwest corner, has a magnificent view towards the southern and western boundaries of the residentially scaled offices of the Granville Lumber Co. Both flourishing companies reflect Granville's past and act as a reminder that the farmer is still much alive in the surrounding area.

Also to be seen from this vantage point is the Charles Webster Bryant Building (1994, photo site plan #5) at the burying ground's southern boundary, which serves The western view is to the South Main Street boundary which, across Licking County #7, site plan #6) and the small adjacent seating area (2000, photo #7, the burying ground, the oldest extant gravestone dating to 1808. as an information and meeting place to welcome all those who visit. Rectangular in plan, the Old Colony Burying Ground is bordered by grain mill structure of the Granville Milling Co. and the neat white burying ground as well as beyond to the ridge rising on the far side of the Raccoon Creek. Looking to the south (photo #4) one takes in the first visual signal to the motorist, ascending the South Main Street hill, that he or she is entering a significant historic area.

The 2.852-acre Situated at the gateway of the major southern entrance(Route 37) to with over 30' of grade change from south to north. NPS Form 10-900-a Section number - 7 Page - OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 from the burying ground, is lined with 19th century residences from south. There are approximately 940 gravestones and monuments in NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio point. These residences also include the vernacular 1835 Thomas Evans House, 217 South Main Street, and three Victorian Italianate style residences, the mid-19th century 231 South Main Street, the 1894 John L. Hulsizer House, 303 South Main Street and the 1882 Henry Jones House, 352 South Main Street.

Close by on South Main Street are two National Register buildings, the Greek Revival Granville Academy (1833), 105 West Elm Street, to the north and the Toledo & Ohio This view of both the southern and western boundaries may be comfortably enjoyed from the uppermost seating area (1998, site plan The view to the east encompasses the heavily wooded edge that almost residence sits close to this corner. Nestled in the wooded edge, before providing an access from the village at Prospect Street through the corridor, the steps, designed by local landscape architect John Klauder, of John Klauder Associates Ltd., replaced a steep and stony path, (1999, site plan #3) is close to the northeast corner and is positioned to view this eastern wooded edge.

Ground can be observed first from the Charles Webster Bryant building at the southern boundary of the burying ground as well as from a Page tree, with an equally majestic oak nearby. completely flanks the eastern property line (photos #1, 3, 5). Not far northernmost point, to the Granville Lumber Co. its southernmost Licking County the turn-of-the-century Evans House (1897, 226 South Main Street), its Central Railroad Depot (1880), 425 South Main Street, to the south. Panoramic views to the north of the expanse of the Old Colony Burying from the northeast corner this edge drops sharply into a ravine. A the ravine, are limestone ("Ohio Stone") steps (1996, site plan #8), burying ground to businesses south of town. Long a pedestrian Continuation Sheet # 2) in the northwest corner, which is canopied by a splendid large ash of the burying ground near a copse of white pines.

Ascending the hill, Section number -7 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 immediately slippery with any precipitation. A small seating area (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Page next into view. Just past the Evans House, 226 South Main Street, mulberry and locust, which extends to the eastern boundary. Finally, Episcopal Church (1838), Presbyterian Church (1861) and Baptist Church (1883), clustered at the intersection of South Main Street and pedestrian and carriage gate at the south interrupt the South Main blocks which contrast with the delicate arch and the gates themselves. The wrought iron work is simple and direct. Three horizontal bars are between the two top bars and exquisite scrolls where the gates meet the piers (photo #7).

The combination of the bold and delicate provide a welcoming entrance to the visitor. As simple and delicate is the wrought iron work of the carriage gate, the seen the tower of Denison University's Swasey Chapel. Licking County Hill. The burying ground is open to the north and east; a simple wood block with mortar joints, it was built by Granville contractor Henry cast iron pedestrian entrance (photo #8, site plan #9) to the north, the combined pedestrian and carriage gate (photos #6, 7, site plan more views of the burying ground unfold. The northern border comes a handsome 1887 capped sandstone retaining wall, ranging from three The entire western boundary along South Main Street is delineated by elaborate, heavy and richly ornamented with baroque scrolls and balanced with plain vertical elements, barely decorated with thin ovals to four feet high (photo #2, site plan #7).

Constructed of cut sandstone post and rail fence (1995, site plan #12) marks the southern boundary. Street wall. Both gates date to 1912. The two most striking aspects of #10) are the bold, robust piers composed of rough-cut sandstone Broadway in Granville Village, come into view. In the distance can be Two elaborate iron gates, the pedestrian gate at the north end and the reaching the burying ground's highest point, the three steeples of the Section number -7 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 begins a woodland edge mainly made up of ash, hackberry, cherry, (8-86) meant tobe seen byvisitors on foot and not persons in a carriage, is United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio architectural details.

Rather than sandstone piers, here the posts are topped with a richly ornamented center matching the design in the side of the piers. It took a skilled craftsman to produce this beautiful gate. roadway which dates from about 1815 when the north section of the path and retains its usefulness as the division between the numbered monuments and gravestones to the north and those to the south. plan #2, 3, 4, 5) that were built between 1998 and 2002 to afford pieces of stone from the site. The bench tops are cut pieces of old sandstone curbing once located on the local Granville streets. The large Newark, Ohio. Page telephone poles in a 1909 historic photo (photo #13, site plan #1).

the sandstone for the walls and the flagging came from unidentified composed of open panels filled with scrolled ornaments, and capped Within the burying ground, the oldest landscape feature is the central Additional landscape features are four small, simple seating areas (site re-used native sandstone, they are also all designed by local landscape old sidewalk which once wrapped around the courthouse in nearby architect John Klauder. Each seating area has a single bench; only the Licking County visitors a place of repose. Tucked into the hilly site and constructed of The only building in the Old Colony Burying Ground is the Charles sandstone retaining walls backdrop the sandstone slab benches. Both burying ground was added.Running east to west across the breadth of Telephone poles gone, the central roadway of today (2004) is a wide lozenge type design and end with an arrow point.

The arch above is one sited at the Charles Webster Bryant building has two. Small the entire cemetery, this feature is easily discernable, as it is marked by NPS Form 10-900-a Webster Bryant Building(photo #7, site plan #6) at the south edge of Section number 7 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 with four lancet arches above which is a pointed finial. The gate itself is made up of three horizontal bars which join the vertical elements with a sandstone slabs leading up to the benches are pieces retrieved from the (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio the grounds. It is named in honor of the meticulous recorder of the eastern slope allowing ample space for the important information boards located on its west elevation, facing South Main Street.

To aid the visitor, one board has all the named and numbered gravestones a map showing the location of all the numbered stones which are presently standing. The façade is composed of a double vertically gable, is a square window with ventilator louvers. The building has In 1886 there occurred an event which would make possible the conservation and preservation of the Old Colony Burying Ground's roadway as the division between the stones to the north and those to this mid 19th century revival style. Historical Society. the south. This recording is unusual in its accuracy and specificity as boarded door enhanced with black wrought iron hinges. Above, in the rescued antique slate. The western roof slope is shorter than the and monuments in some of his observations.

The gravestone and Webster Bryant, a local pharmacist and gifted amateur historian and gathering place and storage structure, this small, non-contributing of the visible stones in Old Colony Burying Ground, using the central small board and batten building with a gable roof, covered with building measures 12' X 10' and stands 13'6" high. The structure is a been painted in appropriate historic Gothic Revival colors as the slate Bryant also noted descriptions and materials about particular stones Continuation Sheet Inscriptions, 1886, Charles Webster Bryant," available at the Granville Licking County genealogist, numbered and recorded all the inscriptions and locations and monuments according to the Bryant inscriptions while the other is burying ground.

Erected by the Granville Rotary Club in 1994 as a National Register of Historic Places Section number 7 Page 5 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 roof, the façade asymmetry and the vertical boarding is reminiscent of gravestones and monuments over a century later. In that year, Charles monument numbers in the following text refer to "Old Burying Ground (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio There are few additional features in this remarkably untouched fence, which would greatly benefit from restoration, is an interesting wrought iron work is thicker, corrosion resistant and more fluid whereas the cast iron work is more detailed, smaller in scale (at least in This burial enclosure fence is composed of elaborate curvilinear monument (Henry Case, d. Oct.

29, 1852, Bryant #225/226) it Both these box tombs were executed by Granville gravestone carver The corners are articulated with recessed panels above a curved base composed of stylized leaves. The center of the horizontal panels is taken up by a large oval filled with intaglio letters, the dedicatory Facing west (South Main Street), the gravestones and monuments are in rows on either side of the 1815 central roadway. There are several surrounds. Page Roman tombs. (1870s, photo #3, Bryant #225/226, site plan #11). This cast iron 1837 (Bryant #164, site plan #13) in the Old Colony Burying Ground.

there is the only surviving plot enclosure fence in the burying ground tomb with a formal, classical composition, reminiscent of 3rd century (8-86) Continuation Sheet There are two large handsome ornately carved sandstone box tombs, Licking County contrast to the work of the wrought iron pedestrian fence of 1912. The Rollin Hughes and are similar in material, design and description. The by the oval. A well molded base is set upon the plinth endowing the each corner is a crisply carved rosette, which fills the spandrel created this fence), and has high compressive strength but low tensile strength. inscription. The short sides are similarly composed with an oval. At Horatio G.Mower box tomb(photo #9,Bryant #165, site plan #14) is designs with pointed ends on the horizontal bars. One gets the Section number 7 Horatio G.Mower, d.

March 29, 1833 and Sherlock Mower, d.July 13, OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 impressions of lace in iron, a remarkable contrast to the heavy marble set on a plain plinth and topped by a plain overhanging molded top. NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio often utilize sandstone for the base at grade. When Granville's second burying ground, Maple Grove Cemetery, was established in 1863, there ground, as this material was utilized later, after carving technology had advanced. Several of these granite monuments or gravestones are replacements secured by families for deteriorated sandstones. most prominent monuments in the Old Colony Burying Ground.

Overlooking South Main Street from high above the sandstone retaining wall, the Mower monument has inscribed recessed marble panels on the tall pedestal above a plain sandstone base which describe poignant graphic reminder of the life span in the early 19th century. Bryant #348, site plan #18). In contrast to the Mower Monument at executed by the Granville monument builder firm of DeBow Bros., provides a strong visual statement at the back. The classical marble columnar monument is sited on a square pedestal above a sandstone base which is arcaded on all four sides. The column is set on a molded Page Licking County the "efficient business man" who died at a young age. The panels the very front of the burying ground, the Blanchard, designed and The majority of the other monuments and obelisks are marble but The largest sandstone monument, which honors Lucius D. Mower, d.

was a marked decrease in burials at Old Colony Burying Ground. monument in the landscape is imposing and at the same time a the Charles Blanchard Monument (d. April 26, 1878, photos #3, 5, (8-86) base. The unusual plain capital, a 19th century variation of a Tuscan Continuation Sheet his wife and baby son. The prominent siting of the Lucius D. Mower handsome sandstone monuments in the Old Colony Burying Ground. Feb. 19, 1834 (photos #2, 8, Bryant #9, site plan #15), is one of the two Consequently, there are only a few granite monuments in the burying The second large monument was erected over half a century later; it is explain the presence of the broken column, symbol of a life snuffed out Section number - 7 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 column, is ornamented with a ball finial which in turn is topped with too soon.

Not only did Lucius die at a young age, but tragically so did OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio its own molded finial. The overall effect is sober, classical and impressive. Charles Bryant called the monument eight years later: " Two additional sandstone monuments of outstanding beauty are the #508, site plan #20). They were both designed by the talented sentinels, contrasting with the plain marble steles in the foreground stately dark sandstone pair overlooks the south and eastern areas of ball finial. Charles Webster Bryant called the monument "the finest piece of work in this yard at the time of its erection."The monument DeBow Brothers in the 1880s. Besides these major sandstone monuments, there are several smaller ones, particularly with square shafts and steeply sloped pyramidal tops.

An example of one of the larger marble monuments is the Benjamin Rackle Zimmermann & Co. of Columbus, Ohio, this monument is sandstone base with a bush hammered finish. A smaller marble base, that carries the name of the monument builder, surmounts the sandstone. Atop this second base is the first base, a taller marble Granville gravestone carver, Rollin Hughes. Standing as vigilant Page the best piece of work in the yard..." Licking County Linnell obelisk (Bryant #807, site plan #22). Designed and executed by dedicated to Laura Jones is similarly composed, but simpler, with plain and the tall silver structures of the grain mill in the background, the the burying ground.

The Deacon Jones monument is composed of a pedestal inscribed on raised panels with rondels articulating the next to the central roadway." The obelisk stands on a large, square Continuation Sheet plan #19) and the Laura R. Jones (d. Jan. 22, 1834, photo #1, Bryant inscribed panels and a topless reeded urn above its square base. New Deacon John Jones (d.June 8, 1824, photos #1, 4, Bryant #506, site Section number 7 National Register of Historic Places sandstone bases were put under both of the Jones monuments by the NPS Form10-900-a corners. Above is an urn ornamented with carved swags, topped by a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio more elevated than usual due to the elongated first base. child, is the work of carver S. G. McBride of Zanesville, Ohio.

The narrow base is bound by tall lancet arched panels which frame the inscription. urn in the center panel of the obelisk which is filled with flowers, some ornate arches somewhat reiterating those below. a low sandstone base with the marble first base standing on it. The wide site plan #21) was erected by the Newark, Ohio firm of Mehurin & Co. approximately five-foot shaft carrying the inscription and standing on two low bases, the first marble and the second sandstone. Page monuments in the Old Colony Burying Ground. Designed and erected by The Susana /Joanah Carpenter monument (1827-1844, Bryant The many small marble obelisks are a counterpoint to the This monument is typical of many obelisks in design with a tall, cascading towards the sides. Above, the obelisk is topped by a frieze of ground landscape. The obelisk honoring Mary E.

Cooper (Bryant #774, striking element of this monument is the exquisite high relief baroque #110/111, site plan #17) is a fine example of the smaller marble ground. The unusual marble monument, dedicated to woman and a marble shaft is inserted into a mortise in this base. Atop the shaft is a Licking County #16) is one of the most delicate marble monuments in the burying The inscribed words are capped by an arcade of small Roman arches element with the inscription: The plain marble shaft of the obelisk is Williams & Monnier of Columbus, Ohio, Charles Bryant calls this preponderance of simple marble slab gravestones in this quiet burial which act as the base to the tapered truncated obelisk above.The most shaft and creates a small roof for the monument. Section number 7 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a The Mary A. Tight monument (d.

March 3, 1853, Bryant #68, site plan marble cap with a slightly gabled top. This element extends beyond the (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio conservation project, which began in 1992, more stones have been discovered below ground and subsequently conserved. The most recent slightly later stones are marble, some of these too have outstanding carving. The gravestones exhibit a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and predominate, one finds some with gothic arched tops and others in directly into the ground but a large number of the marble stones were erected using a sandstone collar through which the bottom of the stone transports the visitor back to the 19th century and instills a sense of conscientiously mowed turf. (end) extends into the soil.

Licking County The early gravestones, the oldest extant being 1808, are sandstone; The Old Colony Burying Ground is exceptionally well cared for. The distinctively unique forms. Many gravestones are tabletstones set pruned. The simplicity of this well-preserved burying ground calm while strolling or sitting on one of its benches overlooking the Continuation Sheet stone in Old Colony Burying Ground dates to 1935. trees, which help to compose this simple landscape, are regularly carving techniques. While rectangular, flat-topped marble markers beyond recognition. On the other hand, during the ongoing 928 extant in 1886.Since 1886, some have disappeared or are broken Section number 7 Page - OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 The burying ground has approximately 940 gravestones - there were NPS Form 10-900-a Old Colony Burying Ground Name of Property 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance for National Register listing.) Community Planning and Development a significant contribution to the broad patterns of LB Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and Period of Significance distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. - D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) - A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. Significant Person - B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) - C a birthplace or grave.

Cultural Affiliation [* D a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.

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Major Bibliographical References (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.) Previous documentation on file (NPS): Primary location of additional data: - preliminary determination of individual listing (36 X State Historic Preservation Office CFR 67) has been requested - Other State agency - previously listed in the National Register - Federal agency - previously determined eligible by the National * Local government - University - designated a National Historic Landmark - Other J recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey Granville Historical Society L recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # 1805-1935 1815 1886 Architect/Builder Art Register Significant Dates Property is: (Enter categories from instructions) Criteria Considerations our history.

Social History A Property is associated with events that have made Bibilography Name of repository: (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property Old Colony Burying Ground Name of Property 10. Geographical Data Acreage of Property UTM References (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) - See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By Minxie and James Fannin with Monique B. Lehner, Consultants Granville Historical Society - date 115 East Broadway, Box 129 (740) 587-3951 street & number - telephone _ zip code. Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form: Continuation Sheets A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.

Representative black and white photographs of the property. (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) Joseph Hickman, Manager, Village of Granville Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). Management and Budget, Paperwork Reductions Projects (1024-0018), Washington, DC 20503.

2.85 43023 12/14/04 Zone Granville Northing Easting name organization state Maps Photographs Additional items County and State street & number 141 East Broadway, Box 514 (Describe theboundariesof the property ona continuation sheet.) Licking, OH city or town name/title A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. telephone (740) 587-0707 Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing of this form to the Chief, Administrative Services Division, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127,Washington, DC 20013-7127; and the Office of instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect 370378 OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio 8. NARRATIVE STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE the broad patterns of Granville history as well as having outstanding establishment in 1805 and ends with 1935, the year of its most recent who laid the foundation of what Granville is today. Development Area of Significance. The gravestones of the early An unusual number of signed, masterfully carved sandstone Criterion C and demonstrate the Art Area of Significance. Excellent representations of talented local carvers, these stones are a visual ministers, farmers, industrialists, physicians, veterans of several wars in 1805, enlarged in 1815, also qualifies under Criterion Exception D.

gravestones and monuments qualify Old Colony Burying Ground under the village of Granville, addressing the Community Planning and Ground has a significant role in village history and thus qualifies under Social History Area of Significance. The Old Colony Burying Ground is the major receptacle of the history history of the rich variety of gravestone iconography between 1808 National Register Criteria A and C on the local level. Associated with Licking County As the village of Granville's first public cemetery, Old Colony Burying burial. Gravestones carry the material evidence of the early pioneers examples of gravestone carvers, Old Colony Burying Ground, laid out and 1860.

Old Colony Burying Ground serves as an outdoor exhibit of National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet history from its founding in 1805 until the 1860s are illustrative of the and ordinary citizens who wove the tapestry of Granville's early Criterion A.Its period of significance begins with the cemetery's (NPS Form 10-900-2 setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association and meets of the pioneer/settlement period and mid-19th century emergence of The Old Colony Burying Ground possesses integrity of location, design, United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio the work of early Granville carver Rollin Hughes, whose unfailing artistry began to be recognized by the late 19th century.

There are other early outstanding sandstone carvers, who called themselves Outstanding marble cutters whose work is displayed in Old Colony Burying Ground are the prolific Woodard family, Mehurin & Co. and DeBow Brothers with a few illustrations of the work of J. L. Jones, Williams & Monnier and Rackle, Zimmermann & Co. are also Massachusetts and Granby, Connecticut. The Licking Company was appears on the original Village Plat. Granville Village was incorporated by the State of Ohio on January 25,1832. Settlers Tour." The Granville Historical Society, 2004. represented. purchase land in Ohio. The migration to Granville, Ohio began in the (8-86) 1850s, almost all gravestones and monuments were marble. White, Wiswell, R. L. Nicoll, and L. C. Barnes.

Two Columbus firms, Licking County Partition Deed executed in 1806 and the Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio was settled by immigrants from Granville, October 4, 1806; his gravestone is not extant.1 The oldest surviving 1 "Walking Tour of the Historic Old Colony Burying Ground. Tour #1 - "The Old The Old Colony Burying Ground was known earlier as "Old Burying Ground" or "Old Cemetery." It was named Old Colony Burying Ground organized on September 22, 1804 in Granville, Massachusetts to fall of 1805. The Ohio settlement was surveyed the summer of 1805, a in 1912. The first known burial was probably George Gavit who died Background History gravestone in Old Colony Burying Ground is that of Mrs. Hannah National Register of Historic Places stonecutters or sculptors, such as M.Whipple and H.W.Bragg. By the OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio ever inhabited Granville tp." It is unclear exactly when the earlier established until 1805. always been residential, as evidenced by the 1866 Atlas of Licking Ground's southern border since before 1889. While the streets near the Street," the street pattern remains unchanged. original steep slope of the Main Street hill from Raccoon Creek to Revolutionary War soldier Timothy Spelman, Esq. who died in 1828 Lilly Jones (d. Oct. 22, 1802, Bryant #378). This grave is marked in the Licking County rectangular shape. County. The quintessential mid-western burying ground, there has roughly .8 acres bringing it to the present day (2005) total acreage of Spelman (d.

March 22, 1807, Bryant #864, site plan #44), the wife of approximately two acres. About 1815 it was enlarged to the north by been a flour or grain mill and a planing mill at the Old Colony Burying burying ground by a recent stone, which replaced a failing sandstone 2.852 acres.

It retains its original 1805-1815 approximately The Walking Tour of the Old Colony Burying Ground notes "The which made necessary the steep slope and stone wall at the west edge marker.Part of the inscription reads:"This is the 1st White family that The original size of the 1805 Old Colony Burying Ground was Broadway was cut down in 1818 and again in 1888 to its present grade, "Mourning Street," "Solemn Street," "Liberty Street" and "Equality The areas on the north and west borders of the burying ground have (Bryant #864a).There had been an earlier deathin Granville, that of NPS Form 10-900-a gravestone was erected as the Old Colony Burying Ground was not (8-86) IPS Form 10-900-i United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground of the burying ground."z It was in 1819 that the first sandstone retaining wall was constructed along Main Street, not to be replaced Ground Inscriptions, 1886." It is not possible to exaggerate the significance of this document.

Without Bryant's work, the Ground would have been almost impossible in the 1990s. As an partially eroded gravestones can be returned to their correct location. Cemetery in 1863. The Granville Times began to lament its deplorable an 1891 article improbably entitled "Tombs and Booms," the writer "Nobody's Child," which observed: Century Residents," 2004. described: burying ground, one comes upon two monuments of old time elegance 3 The Granville Times, Sept. 10, 1891, p. 7. Taking the well beaten path, that leads through the tall grass and Licking County until 1887, when the present sandstone wall was built. conservation/restoration and research of the Old Colony Burying condition, spurring sporadic attempts to rescue the burying ground.

In The Old Colony Burying Ground began to suffer serious decay, example, it is only through Bryant's work that buried, scattered and the Old Colony Burying Ground, naming his record "Old Burying weeds, and over the broken stones and sunken graves in the old 2 "Walking Tour of the Historic Old Colony Burying Ground. Tour #2 -"Mid 19th OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Granville, Ohio probably beginning in the 1870s, after the opening of Maple Grove In 1886 Charles Webster Bryant completed his field documentation of By 1930 the problem of the upkeep of the Old Colony Burying Ground OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio It seems clear the Old Colony Burial Ground has never had the care to which it was entitled.

Even in the first half of the last century it it has been during the past twenty years...* listed on the National Register in 1980. Extending southerly to Elm was not until the 1990s that a comprehensive, consistent effort was now (2005) in the process of being restored under the auspices of the steady conservation effort of both the professional conservators and a trained corps of volunteers resulting in 506 gravestones and monuments receiving fully documented conservation. In addition, the tamed and a true burying ground landscape has once again emerged. ground and has stood the test of time. The integrity of the burying Old Colony Union Cemetery Board, established by the Granville Licking County (8-86) 4 The Granville Times, April 10, 1930. the Granville Historical Society.

In 1991 a condition assessment of all The 99-acre Granville Historic Resources Multiple Resource Area was Township Trustees and Granville Village Council, with assistance from The Old Colony Burying Ground is a remarkably unchanged burial photographs (photos #13, 14) record at least two "Clean-up Days,"in one.of the most consistent supporters of these efforts. Historic Preservation Consultants, Concord MA. Since that year there has been a former wilderness of volunteer shrubs, vines and high weeds has been 1909 and 1923. launched to map and conserve the Old Colony Burying Ground. It is Street, the MRA did not quite reach the Old Colony Burying Ground.

It The local chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution was and still is ground is excellent as it retains its original sandstone and marble National Register of Historic Places NPS Form 10-900-a suffered woefully from neglect; but never was that neglect so glaring as the gravestones and monuments was performed by Fannin-Lehner OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio so many of the sandstone and marble footstones are extant. Very little change has occurred to its landscape over the many years, with the mature and dying trees have been removed and replaced with trees S William T. Utter, Granville: The Story of an Ohio Village (Granville, Ohio: Granville Historical Society & Denison University, 1956), p. 250.

4, 5) and an unassuming gathering place and storage building named features, due to their young age, are noncontributing in 2005 but may landscape design, contrasted sharply with the rectangular 2.8-acre Old predominately hard maple trees5 in the "rural" romantic style of Licking County for Charles Webster Bryant (1994, photo #7, site plan #6). A few indigenous to Ohio. And, finally, an inconspicuous set of natural stone burials in the Old Colony Burying Ground were much less frequent and Community Planning and Development The 1805 Old Colony Burying Ground is the village of Granville's steps, quarried locally (1996, site plan #8), provide a means of "laid out in an artistic pattern of graveled carriage drives" with entrance from the east side of the cemetery. All these landscape on Denison University's first campus in 1831 and moved with the gravestones and monuments.

The burying ground is also fortunate that oldest burying ground. It was followed by Welsh Hills Cemetery in partially enclosed by a stone wall. exception of four low profile sitting areas (1998-2002, site plan #2, 3, totally ceased by 1935. The original 21-acre Maple Grove Cemetery, NPS Form 10-900-a be contributing when they reach the 50-year National Register mark. Cemetery was laid out in 1863, it became Granville's primary cemetery; University to its present location in 1858. When nearby Maple Grove Colony Burying Ground with its long west-facing rows of gravestones OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Cemetery in Newark was first used in 1814 but closed in 1868 with the remains moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Research was undertaken to determine the dates of establishment of other early 19th century burial Managers, Trustee of the Old Colony Union Cemetery Board and co- editor of Images Past and Present, vol. III of Granville, Ohio: A Study in which lists 155 cemeteries for the 26 Townships within the County but be an excellent avenue for future research. encapsulates the social history of the village. One of the most 1857, he was the last survivor of the founders of Granville. Ethan fall and helped build the dams and flour mills and sawmills for the It appears the Old Colony Burying Ground is one of the very oldest if County, Rose was the first Deacon in the Congregational/Presbyterian (8-86) grounds in Licking County by Florence W. Hoffman, former archivist of site plan #43). President of the founders of the emigration to Granville, Church. Elias Gilman (d. Jan.

28, 1857, Bryant #56) also came with the Licking County Denison University, member of the Granville Historical Society Board of first group of pioneers in November 1805. Dying at the age of 92 in Newark Public Library entitled "Cemeteries Located in Licking County" prominent of the early pioneers buried in the Old Colony Burying Bancroft (d. May 8, 1814, Bryant #811) also arrived in Granville that gravestones and monuments of persons meaningful to Granville's past, Continuation Sheet Ground was Deacon Timothy Rose (d. Nov. 27, 1813, Bryant #1813, not the oldest intact burial grounds in Licking County. The Pioneer he and members of his family came with the original citizens of the Colony in November 1805.

Among the earliest judges of Licking National Register of Historic Places A walking tour of the Old Colony Burying Ground, perusing the Social History NPS Form 10-900-a Continuity and Change (2004). A document was discovered at the no dates of when they were organized. Establishing these dates would OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio permanent settlement.

Carpenter Bancroft was also Granville's first was another early settler; his monument reads: "One of the pioneers of Granville settlement." Perhaps the realism of settling a new village can #787) was ordained and installed as the first pastor of the Congregational Church of Granville in 1808 where he served for 14 New London, Connecticut, Richards was also elected Senior Warden of the St. Luke's Episcopal Church at the time of its founding in 1827? Settlers Tour." The Granville Historical Society, 2004. 7 Horace King, Granville: Massachusetts to Ohio (Mt. Vernon, Ohio: Windmill Licking County (8-86) be best encapsulated by the epitaph on Jesse Munson's (d. April 27, 1809. Daniel Baker, Esq., (d. Dec. 19, 1836, Bryant #676), who arrived Publications, Inc. 1989), p. 247. May 8, 1852, Bryant #167) who arrived in Granville in 1811.

Born in of children and friends." The Old Colony Burying Ground also contains the gravestones of such 1827, Bryant #266) and Augustine Munson established a brickyard in from the men buried there. Bricklayer William Stedman (d. March 14, (d. Jan. 10, 1857, Bryant #839, site plan #42), pastor of the Congregational Church and son of pioneer Timothy Rose. He submitted to the privations'of a wilderness / For the advancement Burying Ground. Reverend Timothy Harris (d.March 28,1822, Bryant early professionals as medical practitioner Dr. William S. Richards (d. The early religious leaders of Granville are also buried in Old Colony One can also get a sense of the early industrial history of Granville 6 "Walking Tour of the Historic Old Colony Burying Ground. Tour #1 -"The Old years until his death in 1822. A later minister was Rev. Samuel W.

Rose Section number Page - NPS Form 10-900-a highway supervisor.° Joshua Linnel (d. April 20, 1871, Bryant #357) 1813, Bryant #835) gravestone: "Affluent in the place of his nativity / NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio in Granville in 1811, set up a woodworking mill to manufacture also opened the same year.s Bryant #525) in 1816 with the first tapping of the furnace to produce cast-iron ware occurring the same year.? In the same period, John the proprietor of a woolen mill and also the Deacon of the Welsh liquidation of his estate caused a great strain on the local economy." 8 King. Granville: Massachusetts to Ohio, p. 247. Historical Society, 2004), p. 89. box tombs.

Methodist Church.10 Licking County (8-86) Newspaper editor and printer Sereno Wright (d. Dec. 19, 1858, Bryant 1833, photo #9, Bryant #165, site plan #14) are marked by handsome The graves of his two younger brothers, Sherlock Mower (d. July 13, leader in Granville's commerce and industry, he assumed ownership of Jones (d. June 8, 1824, photos #1, 4, Bryant #506, site plan #19) was Timothy Rose (d. Nov. 27, 1813, Bryant #840, site plan #43) invested 1837, Bryant #164, site plan #13) and Horatio Mower (d. March 29, Century Residents, 2004. 11 Anthony J. Lisska and Louis I. Middleman, eds. Granville, Ohio: A Study in 10 "Walking Tour of the Historic Old Colony Burying Ground," Tour #2 - Mid 19th the Granville Furnace in 1831. He died at the age of 41 and the The Granville Furnace was built by Jeremiah Munson (d. Oct.

2, 1848, D.Mower (d.Feb.19,1834,photos #2,8,Bryant #9,site plan #15).A #763, site plan #40) is also buried at the Old Colony Burying Ground. Continuity and Change.Vol 1: A Purpose, A Plan, A Place (Granville: Granville Granville's most prominent businessman in the 1830s was Col. Lucius woodenware, ox yokes, furniture and coffins.A whiskey still in which 9 King, Granville to Massachusetts, p. 250. Wright became an influential leader in early Granville and the editor of OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio of 1812, the Civil War and the World War I comes to life in the Old Revolutionary War soldiers rest in the burying ground, more veterans of Yorktown and took his sword.!

was wounded at the Battle of Chicamauga and died in a hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn. Canadian born James Milne (Bryant #13la), who died in 1935, is the lone veteran of World War I buried in the Old stone mason, he came to Granville after the war to work on the construction of the Granville Inn. Memorial Day Program, May 31, 1897. Granville Historical Society. 1823. of this war than any other village, town or city in Ohio, with the Licking County Colony Burying Ground. His is the last burial in the burying ground. A #833) was a wagon master in Col. Lewis Cass' Company. There are Ground with 39 veterans. Jesse Munson, Jr. (d. Sept. 11, 1823, Bryant Bryant #840, site plan #43), who captured a British officer at the Battle sixteen Civil War veterans buried in Old Colony Burying Ground.

Granville's first newspaper, The Wanderer, a folio sheet, in 1822 and The significant role Granville played in the Revolutionary War, the War Luther Woods (d. July 23, 1832, Bryant #438) was one of the original exception of Marietta. Two of these soldiers are: Captain Israel Wells (d. The Old Colony Burying Ground also has ties to Denison University. "Honored as a patriot," Samuel L. Rose (d. Oct. 21, 1863, Bryant #375) Colony Burying Ground with the approximately 74 gravestones of the trustees of the institution that became Denison University. The War of 1812 is the most heavily represented in Old Colony Burying April 3, 1831, Bryant #261) and Sgt. Timothy Rose (d. Nov. 27, 1813. NPS Form 10-900-a many officers and enlisted men who fought in these conflicts. Eighteen (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio primarily the showcase of the work of the gifted local Granville resemble the signed stones. Background research on the early carvers as a Granville stone cutter. In 1850 he lived with his wife, Jennie, and Ground. Art Licking County have the two sandstone monuments to Deacon Jones (d. June 8, 1824, (8-86) gravestone carver Rollin Hughes, it is the repository of the work of finished work giving the observing the idea of the substantial condition Census of 1850 and city directories. repository of numerous works of known gravestone carvers. While Old Colony Burying Ground was described in The Granville Times. The 1834 (photo #1. Bryant #508, site plan #20). A writer in 1891 Born in Wales, he was part of Granville's early Welsh Hills community.

With over fifty signed stones, dating from 1820 to 1851, Hughes was Bryant #164, site plan #13) have already been detailed in Section 7 as Rollin Hughes (b. 1800) was identified though the Ohio Census of 1850 clearly the predominant early carver in the Old Colony Burying It is only when Hughes is viewed retrospectively that more is learned characterized the Jones monuments as "old time elegance" ..."the about him. His fine work often received praise in later years when the Old Colony Burying Ground is of artistic significance as it is the photos #1,4, Bryant #506, site plan #19) and Laura Jones (d. Jan. 22, sandstone box tombs of Horatio G. Mower (d.March 29, 1833, photo #9,Bryant #165,site plan #14) and Sherlock Mower (d.July 13, 1837, National Register of Historic Places other talented gravestone carvers as well.

There are also a number of is fragmentary and elusive as they operated shops before the Ohio three daughters and son, ranging in age from 11 to 20 years of age. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio of the owner" 13 The monuments were erected by George Jones, Business Manager of the New York Times, in memory of his parents, who died suddenly of dysentery, as well as to his sister, who died ten years later. The monuments were probably carved and erected in the late 1830s.

The beauty and finish of the headstones is commented on and we the double function of mortuary historian and was a preacher of great power and influence among the Welsh speaking people, who abounded, One of Hughes' earliest gravestones in the Old Colony Burying Ground is interior panel an unusual array of decorative elements. The stone itself and, at the end of the arch, are rondels with highly articulated leaves. These same stylized leaves can be seen below the arch surrounding an eroded carved Masonic emblem. The main section below the Roman arch fluid tendrils joined at the base with a ribbon bow. then as now.14 Colony Burying Ground wrote: is a tall carved ovoid shield with an inscription which is surrounded by is bounded by a richly reeded frame, interspaced with corner blocks at site plan #26).

This Roman arched sandstone gravestone encloses in its The extraordinary quality of Hughes' gravestones was also noticed and these cubistic elements are ornamented: the keystone with an oval 14 The Granville Times, March 25, 1897, p. 1. the base, a keystone at the top and blocks at the base of the arch. All of floriated design, the lower corner blocks with symbols of the Masons 13 The Granville Times, Sept. 10, 1891, p. 7. learn that for the most part were the work of one Hughes, who filled National Register of Historic Places Licking County that of Giles C.Harrington (d.August 3,1826,photo #11,Bryant #102, appreciated.In 1897, the author of a Granville Times article on the Old OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Words fill the whole face of the stone.

Above is a tripartite foliate rich moldings surrounding the gravestone. The sandstone gravestone of Ezekiel Griffiths (d. May 30, 1830, photo a square. A tall oval pierces the fluting and encloses the dedicatory Bryant #832, site plan #41) is a monument to the tragic death of a arched stone with an urn. The arch is filled with a draped funerary urn, symbol of death. Below, in the pedestal base is a horizontal oval filled is a truncated oval. Like those of Martha Munson and Ezekiel Griffiths, which flows beyond the base of the urn right into the bottom half inscription. decoration on a small base. Its strength is derived from the wide and Licking County downward curve of the bottom half giving the impression that the stone #10, Bryant #253, site plan #28) is one of three Hughes' stones which display a funerary urn in the lancet arch itself.

A parchment flows from on the other side is a crisply carved spray of flowers. The body of the Although also topped with a lancet arch, the sandstone gravestone of The sandstone gravestone of Martha Mary Munson (d. Oct. 19, 1832, its arch encloses a draped elongated urn richly sculpted by carver Bancroft (d. Oct. 25, 1828, Bryant #474, site plan #30) which is formed parchment are in Welsh, surely pleasing Welshman Hughes. Balancing it Hughes with leaves and a reeded top. Unusual is the size of the drapery National Register of Historic Places Two years later Hughes created the sandstone gravestone of Azariah in the raised rectangular panel are carved verses. with the dedicatory inscription and framed with stylized flowers. Below, Jonathan B.Hard (d.Nov. 5, 1834, Bryant #917, site plan #46) has a the urn.

Of great interest is the fact that the words carved in the base is fluted and framed with attached colonettes, capped by rondels in NPS Form 10-900-a by a richly molded lancet arch flowing directly into the pedestal base. young sixteen year old girl, "And O she's gone!!" It is the second lancet (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio covering half the right rosette. The horizontal oval filled with the site plan #25) was erected by The Cherokee Female Society honoring Clarissa Palmer in gratitude for her work to the tribe. They immortalized her name with this stele ornamented with a basket filled with flowers. arched top finished at the sides with raised plain rondels. A year later Hughes produced the beautiful gravestone of Mr.

Byron derived from classical cinerary urns. Surrounding this scene are two A contemporary of Hughes, the talented Manley Nehemiah Whipple or "M. N. Whipple," has about six signed gravestones in the Old Colony stonecutter Abraham "Abram" Whipple and his wife, Parthena Dimmock Whipple; the family moved to Granville sometime during the Manley Whipple's father, Abram Whipple, in an e-mail dated Feb. 1, 2001. decoration. dedicatory inscription is surrounded by strongly projecting floral willows whose dripping branches echo and embrace this poignant image. National Register of Historic Places 1814-1824 period. 15 incised words is a young woman, probably his wife, standing by an urn Licking County Burying Ground, ranging from 1833 to 1841. Whipple was born in Hayes (d. March 6, 1836, Bryant #18, site plan #23), a young man "that covered with her own head covering, a touching detail.

This scene is marble gravestone of Mrs. Clarissa Palmer (d. Sept. 8, 1835, Bryant #28, This floriated scene is set in an oval cartouche just below the slightly Whiting, Addison County, Vermont in 1814. He was the son of By the 1830s Hughes had also begun to carve in marble. The interesting had yielded to him his breath in the vigor of life." Although somewhat eroded by time and weather, this rectangular marble stele with a curved top still exhibits the superb carving artistry of Rollin Hughes. Above the 15 This information came from Sue Pittman, the great, great, great granddaughter of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Manley Whipple carved a sandstone gravestone for his younger was sculpted in 1833, nine years after John Page's death, when Manley Below on the tall arched pedestal, flanked by reeded attached colonettes, called it a "a beautifully carved stone" and went on to note "The stone is so well preserved that a little of the gold leaf which ornamented the pioneer's brother."1 16 See Duval and Rigby's article in Ohio Antique Review, April 1982, p. 33. carving on the marker and the unusual iconography, a winged angel in This stone, noted for the beauty of its carving and the poignancy of its Gravestone carver H. W. Bragg has three stones in Old Colony Burying traditional winged angel, representing the soul, an effigy rare in Ohio. #38) is an example.

Although not a large stone, there is substantial brother, John Page Whipple (d. June 21, 1824, photo #12, Bryant #575, is a long oval which hold the large dedicatory inscription. In the Like Hughes, Whipple later began to carve in marble of which the bas-relief sounding a posthorn, is quite elaborate. 17 The Granville Times, March 25, 1897, p. 1. gravestone of Elizabeth Everett (d. Mar. 8, 1836, Bryant #741, site plan was nineteen years old. Continuation Sheet Ground ranging from 1834 to 1849. He began carving in sandstone, site plan #34), who was killed at age 7 "by the fall of a tree." The stone National Register of Historic Places The lancet arch encloses an open book with verse above which is the Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio angel effigy's wings yet remains to tell the loving touch of the baby spandrels are "weeping" leaves which seem to resemble wings.

inscription, is often photographed and published. The carver's skill was recognized, more than a century ago, in 1897. The Granville Times (8-86) Licking County NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio gravestone, an outstanding illustration. The local sandstone has been finial and top of an urn in the upper portion. The inscription panel is a just below the roll at the scroll's bottom. To balance the composition, to the 1850 Census, he owned the Marble Monument Co. in Granville. announcing: "O Yes! O Yes! H. W. Bragg & Son have just received a splendid lot of Rutland and Danby Marble, and those that wish to below). There appear to be at least four Woodards who were gravestone son, Joseph Woodard, as well as John Woodard and Jacob Woodard.

The Woodard "stone cutter, McKean, Licking Co." works during the later half of the 19t century on Bowery Street between Page stands on a rectangular panel below which the epitaph is carved. of 1837 and 1866. Working almost exclusively in marble, the Woodard with the Henry N. Kilbourn (d. Sept. 9, 1834, Bryant #22, site plan #24) An undated advertisement appeared in The Granville Times purchase Marble Gravestones to give us a call."18 18 The Granville Times, July 31, 1930, p. 6. Bragg carved a vine with large leaves alongside the offset scroll.

All this transformed into an impressive classical, lancet arched marker with the By 1850 Bragg had clearly made the transition to marble as, according The Woodard family was the most prolific of the later carvers in the Old In any case, it is clear that a Joseph Woodard owned a Granville marble 1850 Census listed "Jacob Woodard, stone cutter, Granville" and John Colony Burying Ground with over fifty stones carved between the years Licking County National Register of Historic Places scroll that covers the body of the urn with only the foot extending out Joseph Woodard,"Joseph Woodard & Co,""Joseph Woodard, Sc.,""Jno. Section number 8 stones are variously signed "J. Woodard," "J. & C. W. Woodard & Co," OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Prospect and Green Streets [in 2004 this location is College Street between Prospect and North Pearl Streets]. In 1930 The Granville Times the following quote from an undated earlier issue: [Joseph Woodard] "has received a lot of Marble and all those who want good Marble and artistry are described below: merely a panel with a wide incised border. The only carving outside the other unsigned stones of this design. The top is slightly gabled and the About five inches from the bottom, the sides of the stone extend to match the width of the top. panel is the carver's name. Licking County published an article on 19th century Granville businesses which included undoubtedly required extensive time to carve.

There is no iconography, best.work in the county."19 Three examples of the Woodard family 19 The Granville Times, July 31, 1930, p. 6. the uppermost part plus a single flower on each side of the book with The Sereno Wright (d. Dec. 19, 1858, Bryant #763, site plan #40) stone, #504, site plan #33), signed "Woodard," consists of three segments on signed "Woodard," is impressive initially due to its substantial length. upper third extends slightly out on the sides beyond the inscription old Sarah. The name is in raised letters on a curved and recessed panel. neat work would do well to give him a call, as he is doing some of the 28, 1858, Bryant #647, site plan #36) stands in a family group with The extensive text describing Mr. Wright is of particular interest and The impressive headstone of Louisa P.Evans (d.Jan.7,1859, Bryant panel.

A recessed circle within the top contains roses and leaves with the National Register of Historic Places the single marble slab. The artisan carved a book in a recessed panel in largest bloom clearly broken to symbolize the passing the young 15year Section number - Page -- Signed by "Woodard & DeBow," the Sarah Carmichael gravestone (Nov. NPSF orm 19-900a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio recessed panel with a dentilated top and bottom set just below the another "stoneman" who was born in Vermont. There are about ten plan #21) described in Section 7. (1835-1917), were life long residents of Granville.

When John passed away in 1917, The Granville Times identified him as "the oldest of marble shop was located at the rear of the Methodist Church on North Main Street. The Granville Times of 1881 advised: Those of our readers who contemplate purchasing a tomb stone or slab would do well to call in and consult the DeBow Brothers, under the 20 The Granville Times, Sept. 27, 1917, p. 2. Times office. They are now turning out some of finest work we have ever Licking County Mehurin monuments and gravestones in the Old Colony Burying Ground, ranging from 1841 to 1859. The firm was listed as "Dlrs. in all work is the Mary E. Cooper obelisk (Nov. 19, 1850, Bryant #774, site founders of the firm, Isaac Homer DeBow (1838-1911) and John DeBow ranging from 1860 to 1878 in the Old Colony Burying Ground.

The The DeBow Brothers, marble works, functioned in Granville from 1859 to Ohio in the 1875 Business Directory of Licking County, and was in c. 1937. There are about seven Debow gravestones and monuments, The firm of O. F. Mehurin & Co., later known as simply "Mehurin & their leafy stems joined below it. The raised lettering name is in a kinds of marble & granite work, slate" on West Main Street, Newark, Granville's male citizens"and an"early pioneer"of Granville.2 The NPS Form 10-900-a business until after 1881. An example of this important Newark firm's looked at. They have some beautiful designs, and we are confident that NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio there are no two men in this State that can handle the chisel and mallet to better advantage than our friends Ike and John." advertisement of the 1880s " As the Railroad is now finished and a success, we are now more fully prepared to deliver our work to points at great distances."2 The firm's stationery of 1886 revealed that it was The 1894 The Granville Times observed that the DeBow Brothers marble called it "a first-class monumental establishment"24 and continued in the Among its other varied attractions Granville boasts of one of the oldest and best marble works in the state. The DeBow Brothers have been engaged continually in the business of manufacturing monuments 25 The Granville Times, June 3, p. 7. 21 The Granville Times, April 22, 1881, p. 3.

National Register of Historic Places 24 The Granville Times, Jan. 16, p. 8. note"23 and made the interesting point that epitaphs on the gravestones 23 The Granville Times, Nov. 26, p. 1. beyond its immediate area. The 1930 Granville Times quoted an Continuation Sheet 22 The Granville Times, July 31, p. 6. Twenty years after its establishment, DeBow Bros. was looking to expand Licking County works was Granville's "only manufacturing enterprise in the town of any Continuing its high praise of the firm the 1896 The Granville Times design."25 The 1903 The Granville Times noted: American Granite." carved with standard epitaphs. been a guarantee of excellence of workmanship and neatness of could be made to order, implying other firms sold gravestones already 1897 The Granville Times stating "..

the words DeBow Brothers' have dealing in both "American and Foreign Marble" as well as "Scotch and OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio The DeBow Brothers' Charles Blanchard monument (d. April 26, 1878, Census as "stone cutter, Granville." His three stones in the Old Colony Burying Ground range from 1836 to 1855 with the earliest gravestone Marble with a sandstone base, this marker had a recessed inscription particularly ornate. Colony Burying Ground. J. L. Jones (d. 1904) was listed in the 1850 markers with a lancet arched tympanum rising above shoulders. 1841 and 1849 of which the large sandstone Electa Pond (d. Sept. 19, successful business throughout central Ohio, which is constantly Licking County 26 The Granville Times, May 14, p. 8.

Within the tympanum is a carving of a pyramidal topped monument. that of Mary Griffith (d. May 20, 1836, Bryant #238, site plan #27). intaglio. There may be more than one "White" carving; there is one 1841, Bryant #689, site plan #37) is a fine example. The stone, photos #3, 5, Bryant #348, site plan #18), described in Section 7, is one although relatively late, exhibits characteristics of much earlier Smaller local Granville marble carvers are also represented in Old and other memorial work for over forty years, and do a large and lettering is impressively large overall and the lines stating her age are panel without iconography. The first name of the decedent is in raised Continuation Sheet of the most significant features of the Old Colony Burying Ground.

letters at the top and the other information clearly carved below.The Mori"[Remember Death] -yet another feature that harks back to 18th signed by a "J. D. White." century stones."Electa"is in raised letters while the remaining text is On the shaft one finds a six pointed star and the words"Memento NPS Form 10-900-a There are at least six gravestones carved by "White" between the years increasing.26 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio the Mary Hill gravestone (d. Sept. 5, 1850, Bryant #491, site plan #32). This small marble marker with a sandstone base packs a great deal into in raised letters in a second recessed band just below. The deeply cut Another local Granville carver was R.

L Nicoll who was listed in the commemorating Mary Ellen (d. June 20, 1852) and William M. 150 years. lettering supplying the information is still very discernable after some three gravestones in the burying ground spanning from 1852 to 1855. Licking County example of this carver's work in the burying ground; it is the Colony Burying Ground; L. C. Barnes is from Mt. Vernon, Ohio and has Ground dated 1850 and 1853. The Newark City Directory, 1858-1859 McDonald (d. Mar. 22, 1852 (Bryant #442/443, site plan #29). plan #35). This very large marble stands in a local sandstone base. The gravestone of Laura M. McCormick (d. April 19, 1850, Bryant #613, site Canal, between 2nd and 3rd Streets.

A representation of Wiswell's work is Directory, City Guide and Business Mirror, 1858, as owning a Marble flat top gravestone is carved to resemble a picture frame and the lettering within this frame is among the largest found on any marker in Identified as a"marble cutter," Barnes is listed in William's Mt. Vernon lists a Edward Wiswell, "marble cutter,""between 5th and 6th Streets, and There were also carvers from other communities represented in Old Works. An illustration of his work is the large gravestone 1850 Census as"Stone cutter, Granville."There is only one known the space. A bas relief willow with a lamb beneath occupies a deeply NPS Form 10-900-a Standing in a handsome sandstone base. This gravestone is one of the A carver named "Wiswell," has two stones in Old Colony Burying NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio toward the bottom of the gravestone. The Zanesville marble works of S. G. McBride was the creator of one of Zanesville Directories chronicle the firm as follows: 1856 - Samuel G. Springfield, T. P." 1877/1878 - S. G. McBride "Marble Works cor South Only two Columbus firms are known to be represented in Old Colony Burying Ground. The earlier one is Williams & Monnier, Lewis Williams George Rackle (1837-1909) and Nicholas Zimmermann, was listed as Directories from 1867 to 1871. The firm's stately monument to described in Section 7. Section 7. the delicate marble monuments in the Old Colony Burying Ground. 1844, Bryant #110/111, site plan #17) is described in Section 7. only identified monument in the burying ground is that of Mary A.

National Register of Historic Places Benjamin Linnell (d. May 5, 1866, Bryant #807, site plan #22) is South and 3d, res ws Ridge Ave. near S. Corporation Line." The firm's in the Columbus City Directory of 1862. The firm's 1844 marble The later Columbus firm of Rackle, Zimmermann & Co., directed by McBride "foreign and domestic marble, sec 3d and South, res. and 3rd h Ridge av." 1880/1881 - S. G. McBride "marble works, cor most elaborately carved marble markers in the burying ground. The McBride "marble works, sec 3d and South, res. S. Z." 1860 - Samuel G. monument of Susana (d. Dec. 2, 1827) and Joanah Carpenter (d. July "Marble works, 80 E. Gay, Columbus, Ohio" in the Columbus City and Alfred Monnier, which was listed as a "Marble Factory, 75 N. High" in raised letters just below.

The remainder of the lettering is incised Licking County Tight(d.March3,1853,Bryant #68,site plan #16),described in between the drapes. Within the arc of the name is a rose with "wife of" except for the name "William M." in raised letters above his inscription section with the name "Mary Ellen" in raised letters in a semicircle (8-86) OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio sandstone gravestone of Asahel Griffin (Nov. 1, 1833, Bryant #896, site and articulating the corners are simple rondels. Lucy B. Wright lancet arched stone face is also almost filled with words, ground. It is composed of a Renaissance type broken Roman pediment whose center scrolls are filled with stylized flowers and whose ends and top are decorated with sinuous leaves.

Just below is a striking raised rectangular panel filled with the emblem of the Freemasons. evidence of the persons who form the fabric of the early history of the village of Granville. What is less known is that a local Granville artisan, such as Rollin Hughes, could execute such sophisticated gravestone parchment is a branch with leaves pointing downward. The base is The Lucy B. Wright gravestone (d. Dec. 1, 1833, Bryant #762, site plan with the dedicatory inscription. Above it is a robust ball finial covered A later, very beautiful unsigned gravestone is that of Rev. Samuel W. Rose (d. Jan. 10, 1857, Bryant #839, site plan #42).

This marble Licking County gravestone has one of the most elaborate caps on the steles in the burial There are many works of talented but unknown gravestone carvers in Freemasonry "an ancient and honorable institution" was established in the Old Colony Burying Ground, of which three examples are cited. The below words about the tragically young deceased Lucy Wright. National Register of Historic Places plan #45) is filled with words. In the lancet arch is a parchment form composed of a raised square filled with verse and surrounded by a It is well known that the Old Colony Burying Ground holds rare the English colonies in the first quarter of the 18t century. with tongue like forms on a splayed curved base. To one side of the #39) is a similar design to the Asahel Griffin Stone but in marble.

The fluted border; the top side is decorated with a joined pair of branches NPSF orm 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio carving. His work, and that of the gravestone carvers and monument public outdoor art museum, accessible to all. (end) Page NPS Form 10-900-a Continuation Sheet Licking County Section number 8 OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) builders that followed, has created in the Old Colony Burying Ground a NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio 9. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Photographs. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1978. Lisska and Louis I. Middleman, eds.; Vol. II: Reflections and Impressions, Clarke L.

Wilhelm, ed.; Vol. III: Images Past and Present, Theresa S. Overholser and Florence W. Hoffman, eds. Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham & Co., 1881. King, Horace. Granville Massachusetts To Ohio: A Story of the Migration and Settlement. Mt. Vernon IN: Windmill Sloane, David Charles. The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in & Underwood, Printers, 1876. Ohio: Granville Historical Society & Denison University, 1956. University Press, 1991. BOOKS Bushnell, Rev. Henry, A. M. The History of Granville, Licking (8-86) Hill, N. M., comp. History of Licking County: Its Past and Present. Smucker, Isaac. Centennial History of Licking County, Ohio. Read at and Change. Vol. I: A Purpose, A Plan, A Place, Anthony J. Licking County Granville, Ohio: Denison University Press, 2004. Howe, Henry, LL.D. Historical Collections of Ohio in Three Volumes. National Register of Historic Places Duval, Francis Y. and Ivan B.

Rigby. Early American Gravestone Art in Publications, Inc., 1989. Granville Historical Society. Granville, Ohio: A Study in Continuity American History. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins the Centennial Celebration of Licking County Agricultural Utter, William T. Granville: The Story of an Ohio Village. Granville, Country, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio: Press of Hann & Adair, 1889. Vol. 2. Columbus, Ohio: Henry Howe & Son, 1891. Section number Page - Page Society at the"Old Fort," July 4th, 1876. Newark, Ohio: Clark NPS Form 10-900-a United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Duval, Francis Y. and Ivan B. Rigby. "While there still is Time...: Photo-documenting Ohio's Early Gravemarkers." Ohio The Newark Advocate. 1887, 1931. Centennial Edition. Vol. VIII, No. 4. October 1905.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS State of Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Columbus. Ohio Historic Preservation Office Granville Historic Resources Multiple Resource Area, 1980. Ohio Historical Society Archives Library in Ohio Historical Center State Library of Ohio Village of Granville Newark Public Library, Genealolgical Room PERIODICALS The Granville Sentinel. 1970 to present (2004). (8-86) Licking County Antiques Review, April 1982, p. 33-35; May 1982, p. 13-15. The "Old Northwest" Genealogical Quarterly, Special Granville City of Newark Ohio (Licking County) Census of 1850 National Register of Historic Places The Granville Times. 1880-1918, 1924-1941. Village of Granville records OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Section number Page 2 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Ohio.

Columbus, Ohio: Press of Hann & Adair, 1889, p. 46. Granville Sanitary Sewer Map & Plan. W. J. Sherman Co., OHIO DIRECTORIES Columbus City Directories: 1862-1867. Newark City Directories: 1858, 1859, vol. I. scale given. Photoinspected 1984. Digital. Original 1977 aerial kept currently updated. Minute Series (Topographic). 1961, Photorevised 1974, Business Directory of Licking County. City of Newark, 1875. burying ground. Granville Historical Society. (8-86) 2004: Map of Old Colony Burying Ground, Granville OH showing Newark, Ohio. County map scale: 1" = 1 mile. Town maps: no Toledo, Ohio. June 1912. Vertical scale: 1" = 10'. 2004: Geographic Information System (GIS) Map of Granville Ohio. Before 1889: "Granville and Vicinity." No scale. Appears in Bushnell, 1866: Atlas of Licking County, Ohio. Surveyor, F. W. Beers. New Mt. Vernon Directories: William's Mt.

Vernon Directory, City Guide 1984: USGS Map, Granville Quadrangle, Ohio - Licking County. 7.5 1875: Combination Atlas Map of Licking County. L. H. Everts, 1875. Licking County 2004: Tax Map, Granville Village, Section 116-13. Scale: 1" = 60'. Rev. Henry, A. M. The History of Granville, Licking Country, 1905: Granville, Licking Country, Ohio. Sanborn Map Co., New York Continuation Sheet & Business Mirror, 1858, p. 25, 73. York: Beers, Soule & Co., 1866. National Register of Historic Places MAPS AND ATLASES: Arranged by date published. City, New York. 1905. Scale: 1" = 50'. Section number - Page - 3 2004: Highway Map of Licking County, Ohio. Pub. by Licking County, gravestones and monuments by name and number in the OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Zanesville.

William's Zanesville Directory, City Guide and Business Mirror. 1856, 1857, 1860-1861, 1880-1881; Beveridge's City OTHER SOURCES Granville Historical Society Archives Haverstock, Mary Sayre, ed. "Art in Ohio - 1787-1900." Ohio Artists Foss Swinehart, "Tombstone Cutters of Early Fairfield County Ohio and Their Art," Lancaster, Ohio, 1984. Copyright: Fairfield County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, Lancaster, The Historical Times. Newsletter of the Granville, Ohio Historical Sinnet, Capt. Charles. "A Sketch of the Army Life of the Soldiers and Veterans in Old Colony Burying Ground. A computerized list compiled of Memorial Day handouts from 1878, 1897, 1997. The Granville Historical Society, June 1, 2000. Established 1805 - Tour #I, Mid 19th Century Residents; Tour 2004. present (2004). Directory, 1877, 1878.

"Twilight Tours of The Old Colony Burying Ground." 1993 to "Walking Tour of the Historic Old Colony Burying Ground, Project, Oberlin College Library, Oberlin, Ohio. c. 1988. Carol "Old Burying Ground Inscriptions." Recorded by Charles Webster Ohio. Note: With the support of the Ohio Arts Council. National Register of Historic Places Bryant in 1886. Granville Historical Society, Granville, Ohio. May 30, 1878. Granville: W. J. Miller, Printer, March 1880. Society. 1987 to present (2004). Continuation Sheet Sailors of Granville Township." Delivered on Decoration Day, Licking County Memorial Day Program, May 31, 1897. Granville Historical Society #2, The Old Settlers Tour." The Granville Historical Society, Section number Page NPS Form 10-900-a Page (8-86) OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio 10. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA CEMETERY LOT." This boundary dates to 1815, the only time new containing .8 acres, was acquired. The present cemetery boundary has been established since 1815 1805. Boundary Description (8-86) land was added to the cemetery acreage, when lot #2-252, Continuation Sheet NPS Form 10-900-a when a lot on the north side of the original cemetery was added. It Licking County up shortly before settlers from Granville, Massachusetts arrived in The boundary of the cemetery is delineated on the Tax Map, The original boundary was included in the plan of the Village drawn Granville Village, Number 116-13, Scale 1" = 60'. The section includes the Old Colony Burying Ground's entire 2.852-acre parcel.

occupied by the Old Colony Burying Ground is noted as "ORIGINAL Boundary Justification Section number 10Page - Page 1 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Section number 1. General view with the monuments of Deacon John Jones (d. June 3. General view across Old Colony Burying Ground to the Charles background. Cast iron fence (1870s) of Henry Case lot (#225/226) South Main Street, in the background. Deacon John Jones carriage and pedestrian gate (1912). Looking east. Page PHOTOGRAPHS Licking County in middle ground. Looking east. Lucius D. Mower monument (d. Feb. 19, 1834, #9). Looking south. 2. General view along South Main Street wall (1887) up to the the foreground. Looking southeast. monument (#506/507) in foreground. Looking south. background.

Looking southeast. 6. Lower (south) Old Colony Burying Ground South Main Street (8-86) Blanchard monument (d.April 26, 1878, #348) in the far pedestrian gate (1912). Lucius D. Mower monument (1834, #9) in 8, 1824, #506/507) and Laura R. Jones (d.Jan.22, 1834, #508) in Building (1994) in background. Looking east. National Register of Historic Places 5.General view with the Charles Blanchard monument (d. April 26, 4.General view with the tall silos of the Granville Milling Co., 400 1878, #348) and plot in the foreground. Looking southeast. carriage and pedestrian gate detail (1912). Charles Webster Bryant 8.Upper (north) Old Colony Burying Ground South Main Street OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Section number #253). Gravestone carver: Hughes. Looking east. #575). Gravestone carver: M.

Whipple, SC. Looking east. May 1, 1909. Looking southwest. (end) Page 11. Sandstone gravestone of Giles C. Harrington (d. August 3, 1826, 12. Sandstone gravestone of John Page Whipple (d. June 21, 1824, "Clean-up Day," April 14, 1923. In the foreground is the gravestone 10. Sandstone gravestone of Ezekiel Griffiths (d. May 31, 1830, of Annis Phelps (d. Dec. 10, 1843, #490). Looking east. Continuation Sheet March 29, 1833, #165). Box tomb carver: Hughes.Looking north. 9.Ornate sandstone box tomb marker of Horatio G. Mower (d. 13.Historic View of Old Colony Burying Ground with the"central 14.Historic View of Old Colony Burying Ground at a D. A. R. roadway"at center on Village of Granville/ D.A.R"Clean-up Day," NPS Form 10-900-a Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Licking County (8-86) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Section number - Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Licking County Grawile Towiship MAPLE Atlas of Licking County. Surveyor, F. W. Beers MARKET (8-86) New York: Beers, Soule & Co., 1866 IISTITUTE NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No.

1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Old Colony Burying Ground Granville, Ohio Section number - BURYING GROUND Page OLD COLONY (8-86) Continuation Sheet Licking County National Register of Historic Places 661 Old Colony Burying Ground DATA SHEET Preservation Consultants Location or Historic Name Plan # MAIN TO CENTRAL ROADWAY PROSPECT STS SMALL SEATING AREA NEAR LANDSCAPE FEATURE SANDSTONE SLAB BENCH & FLAGGING SOUTHEAST CORNER SMALL SEATING AREA AT CHARLES WEBSTER BRYANT BENCHES & CRUSHED STONE MEETING PLACE & WOOD BOARD & STORAGE BUILDING SLATE ROOF SOUTH MAIN STREET WALL MASONRY WALL CUT SANDSTONE MAIN STREET BLOCK WITH MORTAR 1994 1805 02/07/05 1815 1999 1887 1998 SECTOR 2000 Site JOINTS NORTHWEST BUILDING Type Resource SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY Date Status FEATURE FLAGPOLE Number LANDSCAPE Material STRUCTURE BATTEN/ Page 1 (Licking County), Ohio Granville Fannin.Lehner Old Colony Burying Ground DATA SHEET Preservation Consultants PROSPECT ST.

STEPS STONE STEPS AT PROSPECT MAIN STREET PEDESTRIAN GATE WROUGHT IRON CARRIAGE AND PEDESTRIAN GATE SANDSTONE PIERS HENRY CASE CAST IRON NEARBY FAMILY RAIL BOUNDARY FENCE WOOD POST & RAIL SHERLOCK MOWER BOX TOMB JULY 13, CARVER: HUGHES HORATIO G. MOWER MARCH 29, LUCIUS D. MOWER FEB. 19, 1912 OBJECT 02/07/05 1995 1833 165 1996 1834 164 1837 ENCLOSES FENCE Site Type Number SOUTH Resource MONUMENT GATE Status LOWER Date EAST UPPER STRUCTURE LIMESTONE GRAVESTONES MARKER BOUNDARY SANDSTONE Material SANDSTONE/MARBLE c.1870s (Licking County), Ohio #225/226& Page 2 Location or Fannin.Lehner Historic Name Granville "OHIO STONE" Plan # Fannin® Lehner Preservation Consultants Location or MARY A. TIGHT MARCH 3, CARVER: S. G. McBRIDE SUSANA CARPENTER DEC. 2 JOANAH CARPENTER JULY 1844 MON. BUILDER: WILLIAMS & CHARLES BLANCHARD APRIL 26, MON. BUILDER: DEBOW BROS.

DEACON JOHN JONES CARVER: HUGHES LAURA R. JONES JAN. 22, MARY E. COOPER NOV. 19, MON. BUILDER: MEHURIN & CO. MAY 5, MON. BUILDER: RACKLE ZIMMERMANN & CO. MR. BYRON HAYES MARCH 6, 508 1853 348 506 02/07/05 774 1850 1834 807 1827 OBJECT 1836 1824 1878 1866 Site Number Resource 110/111 Type AND Status (OBELISK) Date SANDSTONE MONNIER GRAVESTONE Granville MARBLE/SANDSTONE Material MONUMENT (Licking County), Ohio BENJAMIN LINNELL Old Colony Burying Ground Page 3 DATA SHEET JUNE 8, Historic Name Plan # Old Colony Burying Ground DATA SHEET Preservation Consultants HENRY N. KILBOURN SEPT. 9, CARVER: H. W. BRAGG MRS. CLARISSA PALMER SEPT. 8, CARVER: HUGHES GILES C. HARRINGTON AUGUST 3, MARY GRIFFITH MAY 20, CARVER: J. L. JONES EZEKIEL GRIFFITHS MAY 31, MARY ELLEN MCDONALD JUNE 20, WILLIAM M. MCDONALD MAR. 22, CARVER: L. C. BARNES AZARIAH BANCROFT ANNIS PHELPS DEC.

10, 238 490 1843 253 1852 1828 1826 1836 02/07/05 1835 1830 474 1834 102 442/443 OBJECT Resource Site Type AND Number Date Granville Status GRAVESTONE Material MARBLE/SANDSTONE MARBLE SANDSTONE (Licking County), Ohio Fannin.Lehner Historic Name Page 4 Location or Plan # Old Colony Burying Ground DATA SHEET Preservation Consultants Historic Name MARY HILL SEPT. 5, CARVER: WISWELL LOUISA P. EVANS JAN. 7, CARVER: WOODARD JOHN PAGE WHIPPLE CARVER: M. WHIPPLE LAURA M. MCCORMICK APRIL 19, CARVER: R. L. NICOLL SARAH CARMICHAEL NOV. 28, CARVER: WOODWARD & DEBOW ELECTA POND SEPT. 19, CARVER: WHITE ELIZABETH EVERETT MAR. 8, LUCY B. WRIGHT DEC.

1, SERENO WRIGHT 647 762 763 1841 504 575 1850 1858 1859 491 02/07/05 1833 741 1824 689 1836 OBJECT 613 Resource Number Site Type Date Granville Status (Licking County), Ohio GRAVESTONE Material SANDSTONE MARBLE/SANDSTONE Page 5 Plan # Fannin.Lehner Location or JUNE 21, Old Colony Burying Ground DATA SHEET Historic Name MARTHA MARY MUNSON CARVER: HUGHES REV. SAMUEL W. ROSE TIMOTHY ROSE NOV. 27, MRS. HANNAH SPELMAN MARCH 22, NOV. 1, JONATHAN B. HARD NOV. 5, 864 917 896 02/07/05 1857 839 840 1834 OBJECT 1813 1833 832 1807 Resource Type Date Number Site GRAVESTONE Status MARBLE/SANDSTONE Granville SANDSTONE Material JAN.

10, (Licking County), Ohio Page 6 Preservation Consultants Location or Fannin.Lehner ASAHEL GRIFFIN Plan # Old Colony Burying Ground Granville (Licking Co.), OH DATA SHEET TOTAL RESOURCES: 40 Contributing, 7 Noncontributing 2 Contributing Sites 4 Noncontributing Sites 0 Contributing Building 4 Contributing Structures 2 Noncontributing Structures C: Contributing Resource NC: Noncontributing Resource resources. Therefore the Data Sheet only provides a representative sample of the resources to be found in the Old Colony Burying Ground.

KEY 34 Contributing Objects Note: With an estimated 940+gravestones and monuments in the Old Colony Burying Ground, it is impossible to identify all 1 Noncontributing Building Page 7 of 7 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS : DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE TELEPHONE RETURN 6/10/05 PROPERTY 4/29/05 NOMINATION DISCIPLINE MULTIPLE ACCEPT REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA APPEAL: OTHER: Granville MRA REQUESTED ACTION: DATE OF PENDING LIST: DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REASONS FOR REVIEW: NAME : Bntored in the DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF 16TH DAY: JATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACE: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEE' Colony Burying Ground, Old REFERENCE NUMBER: SLR DRAFT: N 05000577 REJECT 5/26/05 6/12/05 NATIONAL: SAMPLE: PERIOD: PDIL: DATA PROBLEM:N (d.

Jan. 22, 1834, #508) in the Concord, mn 0i742 6. General view with the monuments 250 South main Street, Granville 3. James C. Fannin ,Jr. 5. 271 Lexington Road 4. July 2004 3. James C. Fannin, Jr. Lucius D. mower monument 5.271 Lexington Road background. Cast iron fence (1810s) to the Charles Blanchard monument background. Deacon John Jones Silos of Hhe Granville milling 3. James C. Fannin, Jr. 4. July a004 5. 271 Lexington Road 6. General riew with the Charles #348) and plot in the foreground. 1805 GROUND Looking east. 4. July 2004 3. James C. Tannin, Jr. 5. 271 Lexington Road Ground South Main Street carriage 3 . James C. Fannin, Jr. Ground South Main Street Mower monument (1834, #9) in (o.Upper (north) Old Colony Bunying 5. 271 Lexington Boad 250 south main Street, Granville HORATO & MOWERO Ld. March 29,1833, #165). Box 5.271 Lexington Road 6.

Ornate sandstone box tomb marker of Horatio G. Mower 3 . James C. Fannin, Jr. 4. July Looking east. 7.#10 Q5o South man Street, Granrille 3. James C. Fannin, Jr. #253). Gravestore carver: Hughes. 5. 271 Lexsngtan Road Looking east. Gi les C. Harringhon (.d.August 3, 18Zlo) 5. 271 Lexington Road 7.#11 3 . James C. Fannin ,Jr. 5.271 Lexington Road Looking east. #575), Gravestone carver: M. Whipple, SC. 4. July John Page uhipple Ld. June 2), 18a4, 4. 1909 6. Historic view of Old Colony on Village of Granville/D.A.R. 7. #13 Historical Society 5. The Granville Historical Society Granville, Onio 43023-0129 photo is courtesy of the Granville 7.#14 4.1923 Phato is courtesy of the of Annis Preips (d.Dec. 10,1843, #490).

S.The Granville OHIO-LICKING CO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) GRANVILLE, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GRANVILLE QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STATE OF OHIO GROUND GRANVILLE VILLAGE ORIGINAL CEMETERY LOT TAX MAP 1601 GRANVILLE, OHIO Licking County SHOWING FEATURES L - LOCATION AND NUMBER OF FEATURE LEGEND FANNIN.LEHNER BURYING GROUND LISTED IN THE OLD COLONY SITE PLAN MAIN STREET DATA SHEET LISTED ON DATA SHEET DECEMBER 2004 SCALE 1° - 60' 272 267 269 270 160 49.5 271 9.63r 7.63r 025-0163 EAST ELM 263 DATED JUNE 02, 2003 ORIGINAL CEMETERY LOT PORTION OF TAX MAP 116-13 (323.9) 265 (158.9) (1651 GRANVILLE, LICKING COUNTY, OHIO OR 336-0020 3RD RANGE IST DIVISION LOT 14 MAIN STREET.

JOINT DRIVEWAY 7 257 SELL ITTO OR 437-005S OLD COLONY BURYING GROUND 266 264 GRANVILLE VILLAGE HICKEY EAST MAPLE LLANOS EVANS 200305296023949 (232) 6-0613 1980311008149 200109070032746