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Granby Road Post Office Square and store.jpg
Granby Road looking south from Maple Street (now Main Road). Gibbons Store is on the right. Burned down in 1934 and replaced by the current village store. Wilcox Hotel is on the left, torn down 1960's. The Methodist Church is in the background. Torn…

Seymour and Stacker 1941 Hiers Photo 057-059.jpg
This house, built circa 1830, was torn down when the Village Green was improved in the 1990's. It was built around 1830 by Barlow and Spellman and occupied for many years by the Seymour family. Milo Seymour and his ancestors had been active in town…

Granby Road 0041 Post Office original building-6937.jpg
Post Office formerly located on Granby Road at the southwest corner of the intersection with Water Street. The present day address would be 41 Granby Road (Route 189). The building was constructed in 1944 by Postmaster Olav Randolph (Randy) Petersen…

Rose Jeptha Homestead Granby Road.jpg
Jeptha Rose Homestead.

House photos:
* First picture is about 1890. Second is believed to be about 1910.

Other files:
* Insurance policy covering the house in the amount of $400 for the period 1849 to 1854.
* Various receipts in…

Cook Howard Country Store.jpg
Howard Norton Cook (1901 - 1980) was born in Springfield and enjoyed visiting Granville early in his career as an artist. He spent most of career in the American Southwest and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico.He created the "Country Store" etching as a…

Granby Road Mill in the Meadow copyright  J G Coleman Photography.jpg
The Mill in the Meadow was constructed in 1976 by Ralph Hiers, assisted by his grandson Matt Jones. Ralph was quite an expert in old mill sites in the Granville area. You can listen to him speak on that and other Granville history topics at THIS…

Catalog Titles Baptist Church.pdf
Granville's Baptist Church became part of what is now the Federated Church, which is currently located at the location of the former Baptist Church building (16 Granby Road). Priot to that the Baptist Church was located in the building now at 25…

Village Aerial 1978 Wally Huntington Photo.jpg
Picture shows what is now the Green, with Main Road (Route 57) running across the picture, and Granby Road (Route 189) coming up from the south. Stacker's house and the Grange are still standing in this picture. Today there are no structures on the…

Truck Accident Churcxh Parking Lot 2019 06 04 GFD photo 2.jpg
On June 4, 2019 at around 10 PM the Granville Fire and Police Departments responded to a truck roll-over, with the truck ending up in the Federated Church parking lot. No serious injuries.

Gran-Val Scoop history display.jpg
The Gran-Val Scoop is open from mId-April to mid-October. For more information go to the Gran-Val Scoop web site: CLICK HERE

Citizens Park Dedication 1999 10 03 001.pdf
History and photos of the Granville Citizen's Park, dedicated on October 3, 1999.

1942 12 29 storm Wilcox hotel.jpg
Snowstorm of 29 Dec 1942, Hiers photo. Wilcox Hotel is on the right. Old Universalist Church (gone) steeple in the background. Granville Country Store is just out of sight on the left. Gas sign is visible. View is looking northwest toward Main Road.
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