Great American Crossroads Mural

The Great American Crossroads Mural presents scenes from Bucyrus and Crawford County history and community life, including a present-day view over the park, tributes to agriculture and farm families, Augustus Juilliard meeting young musicians, a story of General Eisenhower asking banker Juilliard Blicke for a dime to make a telephone call while passing through Bucyrus during World War II, the interurban electric street car that served Bucyrus, Galion, Seccaium Park, and Marion from 1899 to 1935, the elephant atop the Geiger Clothing store as an advertising symbol, a wartime Western Union message received by Carol Newland after her husband's death, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and Henry Ford at the Elberson Hotel when attending President Harding's funeral, a young paper boy announcing The Evening Telegraph of Bucyrus, Foxey's Popcorn Wagon as a longtime town square gathering place, a figure representing today looking into the past, and local industry including the Timken Co., the D. Picking Copper Kettle works, the Shunk Co. plows, and the Ohio Crane Co., whose cranes helped dig the Panama Canal.

Bucyrus, Ohio · United States