Community Ties

A thriving and active community surrounded this farm, with local residents taking part in events at schools and churches, joining civic organizations such as the Grange, Masons, and Oddfellows, and gathering for pie suppers, singing schools, holiday pageants, baseball games, visits with family and neighbors, and drives. Many people traveled to nearby Ashville and Circleville for traveling theater and music exhibitions, lectures, and agricultural fairs. Anniversaries, weddings, and funerals brought people together for celebration and comfort, while hog butchering, grain threshing, and other work also created chances to visit. The nearest town of Marcy included a general store, post office, Grange hall, wool sales building, blacksmith shop, and church, and the nearby schoolhouse served not only for education but also as a gathering place for after-hours entertainment and special events.

Ohio · United States