Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society

Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society This page is primarily to promote the Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society Events, Township History

The Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society was founded on October 15, 1975. In June 1976, Ralph Connell donated space above his Hardware store, and the museum began to collect artifacts. The Society purchased land at the corner of Jackson and Broadwyn Streets in January 1985. In January 1993, the current museum structure, which was built in the 1850’s, was donated to the Historical Society by Thad

Green and Marissa Ong. After countless fundraising events, on October 1993, the donated house was moved from Route 256 & Livingston Avenue to its current location at 1485 Jackson Street across the road from the Hannah Aston Middle School. After a major renovation over several years, and the addition of a storage barn, all of the artifacts were moved from the space above Connell’s to the new location, and the Museum doors opened in 2007. The purchase and restoration of the Bennett Garage completed the three-building complex.

05/19/2026
We will miss Jim at our annual Christmas dinner. Paula and Jim were always there for the holidays! ~ Mary Turner StootsJ...
05/19/2026

We will miss Jim at our annual Christmas dinner. Paula and Jim were always there for the holidays! ~ Mary Turner Stoots

James Wesley Sharps, 83, of Pickerington, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on May 15, 2026. He was born on November 27, 1942, in Columbus to the late Paul Edwin Sharps and Lois Miller Sharps.

Jim was a 1960 graduate of Reynoldsburg High School. At the age of 17, he proudly enlisted in the United States Navy, serving aboard the USS Saratoga (CVA-60). Following his honorable discharge, Jim began a career in the printing industry, first as a driver and later as a typesetter for Heers Print Shop.

In 1977, Jim answered another call to service by joining the Truro Township Fire Department as a volunteer firefighter. Through dedication and leadership, he progressed through the ranks to become Fire Chief. Jim continued his education, earning an associate degree. He instructed at the Ohio Fire Academy and for the International Association of Fire Fighters, sharing his expertise with firefighters across the state and the country. He was a paramedic for the Mount Carmel Mobile Intensive Care Unit.

Jim met Paula at the Ohio Fire Academy, and they married in 1988. Together, they shared 38 wonderful years of marriage with their blended family, enjoying fun and themed celebrations together. They were active members of the PT Cruiser Club and the Happy Trails Dance Club. Many happy memories were made cruising and traveling together with friends, including attending many annual Saratoga reunions. One of Jim’s final trips was Honor Flight 135.

Jim was a lifelong supporter of his community and a proud member of numerous organizations, including the Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society; American Legion Post 283; the Reynoldsburg Senior Center; CORF-4 Unit; the International Association of Fire Chiefs; and the Ohio Fire Chiefs' Association.

Jim was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, Virginia “Ginny” Mae Pickering Sharps, and his daughter, Jill Diane Sharps Arp.

He is survived by his devoted wife, Paula; sister, Paula Sharps Martin (Junny); son, Jeff Sharps (Robin); stepdaughters, Debbie Ohler (Donna) and Beth Ohler Meek (Brian); son-in-law, Chris Arp; grandchildren, Michael Arp (Irina), Megan Arp Katz (Josh), Josh Arp (Michael), Morgan Sharps, Garrett Sharps, EC Meek, Lucy Meek, and Layla Meek; great-grandchildren, Leo and Maddie Arp; and many cousins, nephews and nieces.

Jim will be remembered for his unwavering commitment to service, his love for family and friends, and his generous spirit. Whether in uniform, at the print shop, on the dance floor, or surrounded by those he loved, Jim brought dedication, warmth, and laughter to every part of his life. His legacy of service and compassion will continue to inspire all who knew him.

The family would like to express their appreciation for the many day-care, respite-care, and healthcare workers, support groups, and the VA for all the care and resources provided through the years.

Instead of flowers, please consider donating in memory of Jim Sharps at www.dementiasociety.org or to the Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society, PO Box 144, Reynoldsburg OH 43068-0144

The family will accept visitors Friday, May 22, 2026, from 4:00-7:00 PM and Saturday, May 23, 2026, from 10:00-12:00 PM, immediately followed by a brief service at the Pfeifer-Woodyard Funeral Home, 7915 E. Main St., Reynoldsburg, Ohio, 43068.

Pfeifer-Woodyard Funeral Home is honored to serve the family.

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04/17/2026

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MY BROTHER TOOK A RIDE DOWN GRANDMA'S LAUNDRY CHUTE!by: MARY TURNER STOOTSIt had to be in the early Spring of 1956. I wa...
01/18/2026

MY BROTHER TOOK A RIDE DOWN GRANDMA'S LAUNDRY CHUTE!
by: MARY TURNER STOOTS

It had to be in the early Spring of 1956. I was four, and my brother was about 2 years old. He doesn’t remember anything about this adventure (thank God!).

My cousin, Jim Wiswell, was probably around eight, and my sister, Nene (pronounced NEE-nee) would have been about seven. I wasn’t involved in the planning stages because I was too little. This almost sounds like something Jim would have thought up. He was one of the orneriest kids that God ever put on this earth, and I loved him for sharing that trait with me.

Between our two families, there were six children at the time (Missy was born later to the Wiswell family in 1962). In 1956, there were three Wiswell boys and three Turner kids. We were all born one right after the other within a 5-year timeframe:

1948 – Jim Wiswell
1949 – Nene (Jeannine) Turner
1951 – Mike Wiswell
1952 – Mary Turner (Me)
1953 – Tommy Turner
1953 – Ed Wiswell

The Wiswells lived across the street from Grandma & Grandpa Wiswell. The grandparents’ house was at the corner of Bryden & Jackson in the Highland Terrace addition, which is just North of Main Street off Lancaster Avenue, before you get to Brookside.

We were always at the Wiswell House or Grandma’s house.

It’s hard to say who Jim brought into the mix for this plan, because I don’t remember all the players involved, but I’m sure he picked his brother, Mike.

Mike is the quiet one. At least, WE all called him Mike. I found out a few years later that his classmates all called him Tom! Mike was his middle name, but he went by Thomas, or Tom at school, Mike was five. I don’t know why we called him Mike. Maybe I’ll ask him the next time I see him!

Since I was so little and would probably be in the way, I was given a task to do in the basement. My job was to pad the area where my brother, Tommy, was going to land! So, I scurried downstairs to get busy.

There was a large box on the wall by the furnace that you could fit a laundry basket into. I pulled the basket out and proceeded to pile a bunch of laundry into the box. I didn’t pay any attention to the fact that I was piling CLEAN laundry into the box! THAT would earn me a date with a paddle at the end of the day. Don’t worry, I don’t believe that I’m too traumatized over it!

If anyone should be traumatized, it would be my little brother, Tommy! Luckily, he told me that he doesn’t remember any bit of it.

After all the padding was in place, I headed back upstairs to announce that my task was fulfilled! Then - I watched as somebody picked up my brother, and ever so carefully positioned him in the kitchen laundry chute. It was decided to use this one because he would only have to fall one floor to the basement. I thought that the second-floor laundry chute might be too far of a fall (Do ya think?). But the real reason was, both of our great-grandmothers lived with Grandma & Grandpa, and their rooms were upstairs on the second floor, so we weren’t supposed to play up there (lucky for Tommy!).

As soon as he was positioned to drop, I ran back downstairs to make sure he didn’t fall on the floor accidentally after he landed in the box.

And (to my surprise) he was just FINE!

But – there was a commotion in the kitchen. Evidently, Grandma had been upstairs helping the great-grandmas right before “THE DROP” and she walked into a kitchen full of guilty-looking children. THEN - she heard me yell up the basement stairs, “Tommy made it JUST FINE down the laundry chute!” At that point, I heard the screen door slam shut as all the Wiswell boys ran out the back door, and that left Nene all by herself.

I helped Tommy up the stairs and as we stepped into the kitchen, Grandma wanted to know what the heck was going on. Nene started to cry, so I decided to bravely (stupidly?) tell Grandma the truth (after all,… that way, I won’t have to remember what I said).

Grandma was glad that Tommy was OK, but she definitely was not very pleased to discover that her clean laundry was all unfolded and piled around on the basement floor. (Most of it fell on the floor when I helped Tommy out of the box on the wall.)

Consequently, I ended up in the doghouse because of the disorganized and (now) dirty laundry. I don’t know if, or when anybody else got a licking, but I hope I wasn’t the only one!

Maybe I should have cried instead of confessing?

MERGERS & SPLITS - REYNOLDSBURG SCHOOLS AND TRURO TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURYby: NEAL WHITMANIn 1868...
01/18/2026

MERGERS & SPLITS - REYNOLDSBURG SCHOOLS AND TRURO TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
by: NEAL WHITMAN

In 1868, every township in Ohio was home to its own school district. So, when the Reynoldsburg Union Academy was completed that year, it became the flagship building for the Truro Township School District. But by 1871, Reynoldsburg Schools had broken away to become their own district. The Reynoldsburg School District, was bounded on the west by Big Walnut Creek, and on the south by a line dividing the various "sections" within Truro Township from each other.

Several decades later, the era of one-room schoolhouses was coming to an end, as the state government encouraged consolidation of smaller districts. In the Reynoldsburg School District, this took the form of absorbing the Etna Township School District to the east in 1914. The Truro Township School District, meanwhile, had expanded into Mifflin Township to the northwest, and into Madison Township to the southeast.

Truro Schools’ surge of mergers hit its high-water mark in 1919, when the Reynoldsburg Village School District itself rejoined the Truro Township School District. The Reynoldsburg school board asked voters whether the district, with a population of less than 1,500, should join the Truro Township School District, and on August 12, 1919, the issue was approved, 126 to 10. On November 25th, the Board ratified the results, and adjourned sine die. The merger reunited almost all of Truro Township into one school district, along with parts of Madison, Mifflin, and Etna Townships.

As it happens, the reunification happened just in time for Reynoldsburg residents to vote on a bond issue for Truro Schools. In November 1920, the issue appeared on the ballot, and passed by 8 votes. There was a problem, though. It seems the Truro school board had forgotten about that piece of Etna Township that had been annexed to the Reynoldsburg Village School District. Nobody told the Licking County Board of Elections about it, so the issue didn't appear on the ballot there. It passed, but the disenfranchisement of 9 Licking County voters resulted in the election’s invalidation the following May.

The following year saw the second breakup of the Truro Township School District. Although it kept the territory it had gained in Mifflin Township, the territory in Madison Township reverted to the Madison Township School District, taking most of the southeast portion of Truro Township School District with it. And the Reynoldsburg School District broke away once again.

Three months after the Truro Township School District bond issue was thrown out, the Reynoldsburg Village School District rebooted itself. Twenty-one months earlier, on November 25, 1919, the school board had recorded the minutes of its final meeting on page 243 of their ledger. On August 8, 1921, a newly appointed Reynoldsburg Board of Education turned to page 244 to record the minutes of their organizational meeting. James C. Ashton, Frank J. Smith, Closson G. Smith, Lew W. Tussing, and William E. Weeks were sworn in as “members of the newly created Reynoldsburg Village School District.”

Reference sources available upon request

LINDA BRONSTEINI was very saddened to hear that Linda Bronstein had passed. She was one of the first people to mentor me...
01/18/2026

LINDA BRONSTEIN

I was very saddened to hear that Linda Bronstein had passed. She was one of the first people to mentor me. She is related to the Graham family, as well as the Alexander W. Livingston family.

Linda went with me when we were shooting the program about A.W. Livingston thru WOSU-TV, because I wanted an expert in the room. Thanks to her teachings, I was able to answer the interviewer’s questions without hesitation. She was also extremely proud of her family’s heritage. When you read her Obituary, you’ll see why. God Bless you, Linda. I miss you!
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Linda A. Bronstein, age 83, of Bexley, died January 9, 2026. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA in 1964. Linda was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, Friends of WOSU, Friends of WETA, Friends of Bexley Public Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, and Friends for Life Animal Haven.
She retired from Connell’s Flowers. Linda was preceded in death by her husband, Russell; father E. James Adams; mother Kathryn Johnson Adams; brother Douglas Adams; and sister-in-law Kathleen Adams.

Linda is survived by her beloved sons Christopher and Michael; precious grandsons Matthew and Andrew; wonderful daughters-in-law Maliko and Amy; loving brother and sister-in-law Brian and Anne Adams; very special nieces and nephews, many wonderful friends, and her much-loved cats.

There will be a private family burial in Silent Home Cemetery in Reynoldsburg, Ohio where she will rest beside her husband and among her many pioneer ancestors. To leave online condolences, visit www.schoedinger.com.

Dr. Daniel E. “Dan” Weltner, age 90, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, passed away peacefully in January 2026. He was born in Colum...
01/15/2026

Dr. Daniel E. “Dan” Weltner, age 90, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, passed away peacefully in January 2026. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in October of 1935. Dr. Weltner, a devoted physician, graduated from Reynoldsburg High School, earned his undergraduate degree in pre-med from Miami University, and completed his medical education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He served his internship at Mount Carmel Hospital Main in Columbus.

Following medical school, Dr. Weltner entered the Ohio National Guard, serving from 1960 to 1969 as a physician and attaining the rank of Major. After attending boot camp in Michigan, he was stationed in Columbus for the remainder of his service.

Dr. Weltner practiced family medicine in Reynoldsburg for 40 years, caring for generations of patients with compassion and dedication, and at Mount Carmel East Hospital, where he served four years as the President of the Mt. Carmel Medical Staff. A brilliant diagnostician, Dr. Weltner earned great respect from his colleagues.

After retiring from private practice, Dan worked at the Military Entrance Processing Station, Gahanna, and volunteered at the Columbus Free Clinic. In 2010 he was honored by the Columbus Medical Association for “50 years in the field of medicine.”

Dr. Weltner will be remembered for his kindness, dedication to medicine, service to his country, and love for his family. His legacy endures through the many lives he touched as a physician, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

Dan was married twice and he was deeply proud of his family. He is survived by his four children: Susan (Phil) and their children Bo (Caitlin, son Brooks), Christian, and Bryce; Dan (Jayson); Leslie, and her children Dana and Kelsie; Kristi, and her children Taylor and Jeremy. He is also survived by his stepdaughter Judy and her children Katie (daughter Reagan) and Kyle (Ashley); his grandson Joe (Chrissy, son Joey); and his grandson Anthony (Brandi, children Evan, Remy and Ethan).

Dan also leaves behind many nieces, nephews, extended family, and friends. Dan was preceded in death by his parents, Leslie and Faith; his brother David (Barbara); his stepsons Joe and David Merringer; and his stepson-in-law Phil Krauskopf.

Dr. Weltner’s greatest joy in life was helping others. Dan enjoyed watching Ohio State Football, reading, birdwatching, listening to music, maintaining a beautiful yard, stargazing, and traveling. Some of his favorite destinations included North Myrtle Beach, Pawley’s Island, Oglebay Resort, Great Smoky Mountains, Sedona, and Cedar Point Amusement Park.

A special thank you goes to the staff at Storypoint Gahanna North for the loving care they provided “Dr. Dan” the last four years.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, January 18, 2026, beginning with visitation at 1:30 p.m., followed by a service at 2:30 p.m. A reception with light refreshments will follow.

Sunday Services will take place at Schoedinger Margarum Funeral Home, 1051 E. Johnstown Road, Gahanna, Ohio 43230. A brief interment service will be held on Monday, January 19 at 10:00 a.m. at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, 5600 E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43213. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions should be made to the Columbus Free Clinic at https://columbusfreeclinic.com/donate or by check to Columbus Free Clinic.

GROWING UP IN THE BURGBy: Mary Evans Eaton, a 1964 RHS GraduateI was blessed to be born on one of the days that the RHS ...
12/31/2025

GROWING UP IN THE BURG
By: Mary Evans Eaton, a 1964 RHS Graduate

I was blessed to be born on one of the days that the RHS football field was being finished.

My Dad was laying sod all afternoon while my pregnant mother was down Broad Alley in our white house behind the Methodist Church on Main Street. She knew it was time to get to Saint Ann’s Hospital since I would be her third child.

She opened the car door and blew the horn. She repeatedly beeped until my father came running. He jumped in the car, and we were off to Columbus.

My brother and sister were safely staying with a neighbor, so I had all their attention for my arrival.

Fortunately for all three of us, things went well, and I arrived early on the Saturday morning.

I have learned that having an older sister and brother meant that I would fall into the “Line of Importance” in last place. Later in life I was told by my siblings that my parents loved me best. I knew better. I didn't repeat their mistakes, so I learned from them.

We lived in that house at 301 Main Street until I was in Mrs. Bradow's third-grade class. I recall one of the scariest days living there.

The alley behind our house went all the way to what is now Graham Road. The alley was narrow, allowing only one car to pass easily.

I wanted to ride my sister's bike down the alley, but I was too small to reach the seat. That didn't stop me from trying. Being about six, I hadn't thought about my blue jeans pant legs. Yep! One of those long legs got caught in the chain, and there I was, stranded.

I yelled for help, but I had gone past the water tower, so no one could hear me. Finally, I did what any child would, I took off my pants and pushed the bike home. All the way, I was scared someone would see me “jean-less” but luckily no one did. My parents bought my sister and my brother a bicycle. I never got one. Maybe because I was the “jean-less kid!”

I recall other reasons that the neighborhood was special. George Curtsaw had a peacock in the backyard, which would strut around sometimes. What a beautiful feathered creature that would stare at me until I hurried home and left it in peace.

I fondly recall the yelling Connie Parkinson did when she wanted “Beatle Bomb” to come home for lunch.

And how could I forget Georgia Orman, who babysat for us occasionally. Georgia smoked ci******es, which we found fascinating. She blew smoke rings, and she let us try to make them too. Oh, my mom would have been irritated had she known. Many years later when she learned from us about Georgia, she just smiled.

There were many colorful folks who lived in that area of Old Reynoldsburg. Too many to name, BUT it’s all still in my fond memories of the good times we had in the ‘Burg.’

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN … IN REYNOLDSBURG By: Sam Van Schoyck - 1974 RHS GraduateDo You Remember When . . . • Agatha Van Sc...
12/30/2025

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN … IN REYNOLDSBURG
By: Sam Van Schoyck - 1974 RHS Graduate

Do You Remember When . . .
• Agatha Van Schoyck gave piano lessons in her home on Lancaster Avenue?

• Art (Van) Van Schoyck repaired radios and T.V.s from the same house?

• Catherine Pinkerman gave art lessons from her home on Rodebaugh Road?

• Weilbacher’s clothing store?

• Scotts 5¢ and 10¢ store?

• Super Duper grocery Store?

• Green Gables restaurant?

• Williams’ Trailer Sales on Main Street. They also had a horse barn to the rear of the property. There was a fire one night and several horses were lost – circa 1970

• When all students were sent home early from the old high school because pigeons got inside the water tower on Broad Alley and contaminated the water supply – circa 1960

• Harry Hayes Produce Market on Main Street. The garden was behind the house along French Run. In later years, through marriage, it became the Hayes-McClay market, and the produce was grown on the McClay farm in Groveport

• The Seymore and Vivian Hickman Farm on 256 at the intersection of Graham and Livingston. All the buildings were painted a cream-yellow

• The man in a pickup truck who sold sweet corn in front of the Pour House. He sold out quickly

• Burger Boy Food-o-Rama (BBF), with the “whirling satellite.” As far as I know, it was the first fast-food in town. The satellite was such a distraction, it had to be stopped due to a large number of traffic accidents diverting everyone’s attention

• When BBF had a baby elephant in the parking lot as a promotion with the Columbus Zoo

• The traffic light at Main and Jackson was the only one in town

• The name of BBF’s clown mascot – Mr. Happy

• Daily sonic booms caused by aircraft from Lockbourne (Rickenbacker) AFB. They would reach the speed of sound about the time they got to town

• Bomb Drills at school. At French Run, students were marched to the kitchen where they would kneel with heads tucked and against the wall

• I-70 was constructed. It was completed east to James Road, and west to Kirkersville first. The piece south of town was the last to be done

• The annual Minstrel Show

• When I-270 was built, and wiped out the lost town of Hibernia on Main Street

• Twin Auto Towing was in the old wooden schoolhouse at Hibernia. It was owned by the Hannah twins who lived in Reynoldsburg. Their motto was - “Don’t Cuss, Call Us”

• The covered bridge on Tussing Road over Blacklick Creek

• Wetherall Dairy milk served at school – white 1¢, chocolate 2¢

• W.A. Gurtler had a railroad contracting and house moving business in a house on Bryden Road. Employees included Ralph (Bogey) Nessley, Suzanne Van Schoyck and Marylou Van Schoyck. They also had an office in Chicago.

• The large concrete fountain with the colorful changing lights on the pond at Glen Rest Cemetery

• Gary and Maude ‘Wiswell’s Market’ a Red and White grocery

• The various filling stations – from east to west on Main –
o Pure Oil owned by Bernard and Don Griffith
o Sinclair with Dino the Dinosaur
o Gulf at Waggoner Road owned by Owen Sheets and later Bill Van Hoose
o Marathon at Lancaster and Main owned by Mickey Slack
o Sohio on the opposite corner owned by the Wogan family
o Shell at the shopping center owned by Buck and Chuck

• When you took your rags to Mary Durant and she would weave rag rugs for you

• The old barn at Waggoner Road and Main with the Mail Pouch logo painted on it.

• The Village Store and Shorty List’s shoe repair shop located on the lower level

• Don Foltz Jewelry

• Fred and Freda Feucht’s East End Market

• Fred Feucht’s strawberries grown right next to the store.

• The Little Weekly newspaper. Features included Gail Wollam’s Society Column, Teen Talk and the daily school menus so you could decide if you wanted to buy or pack your lunch

• The large Victorian house at the corner of Brice and Main built by Whitney and Louisa Tussing

• Carl Whitmer’s barber shop next to Vick’s Pizza

• Sen-Rey beauty salon in the three-story house just west of Vick’s. It was owned by Senath Shadwick

• Lawson Dairy’s store

• When the second house south of Main on Graham Road exploded due to a natural gas leak – circa 1964

• Popular pro wrestler Frankie Talaber lived on Graham Road
• George “Pike” Taylor getting around town on his three-wheel bicycle

• Oath Young, the school crossing guard, stationed at Jackson and Main every day

• The brass cannons at the entrance to Silent Home cemetery. They were later stolen and never recovered

• When lightning struck the steeple of the old Methodist Church on Main in 1972

• Twin Kiss ice cream owned by Mike and Birdie Zorich

• J-Mart surplus store, later the location of the Truro Fire Department. They had a resident talking Minah bird

• When the fire department was all volunteer. The siren would blow to call the firemen to the station: one long ring was a fire; three short rings was for the squad

• When the town had only two police officers – Charlie Fine and Officer Schultz

• When an officer accidentally discharged a shotgun that was standing upright on the floor hump of his car, blowing the top off the cruiser. Afterwards, shotguns were required to be locked in the trunk of the cruiser

• Stapleton’s Auto Parts owned by Ezra “Ez” Stapleton, and later, his son, Bob

• The A & P grocery. The building later became the post office

• The skating rink, swimming pool and bowling alley, all owned by Sam Moore

• The tall, ancient pine trees in front of Pick Richards house. They appear in the earliest photos of town

• Zettler Hardware in the shopping center. When they moved to town, they vowed to put Ralph Connell out of business. They did NOT

• The drug stores – Hayes, Sainato, Rexall, and Reynoldsburg Pharmacy

• Ron’s Pizza, a wholesaler who made individual pizzas for venues such as the Columbus Jets baseball team

• Al Haft’s motel and restaurant, and the farm windmill that towered above Stoney Creek Country Club on 256

• The Wetherell Dairy store managed by Bill Wiswell and his sister Wilma Wiswell Turner cashiered

• We listened to WCOL on our transistor radios

• When our telephone exchange was Union (UN), or UN6-###x. The UN was an abbreviation of Union. Other exchanges in the area were Belmont (BE) in Whitehall and Capitol (CA) for downtown Columbus. Hudson (HU) in Upper Arlington, and Clermont (CL) in the Clintonville area. Others were TE for Pickerington and TU in Westerville.

• The annual Ox Roast

• The menagerie at Blacklick Woods

• Buck Bennett driving through town in his very old tow truck and his slouch hat

• Snook Airfield on Taylor Road owned by Buster Snook.

• A quasi-industrial park on Taylor Road that included Reynoldsburg Trucking (owned by Art Slonaker), Industrial Steam (coal haulers), and Arrow-Universal Concrete

• Cheatwood Funeral Home

• Bordon Milk and Omar Bread offered home delivery

• Ralph Connell telling you, “I don’t have one, but I can get it on Wednesday when I go to town.”

• Bars included: Pandora’s Box, The Pour House, and The Rose Hill Tavern

• The old post office was on French Drive by Dr. Weltner’s office

• Chuck Alspaugh had the preeminent excavating business in the area

• The East End carryout with the very profane parrot

• Nightengale Cottage, the tuberculosis sanitarium on Brice Road where I-70 crosses. Part of the land became Chi Chi’s, Bob Evans, and an office park. After TB was relegated to the past, the facility was a hospital for children given up to the state by their parents. Many suffered from physical and mental issues and were not expected to survive past toddler age. Merna Wiswell (Bill’s wife) was a nurse at the hospital for much of her career

• Jean’s Coffee Shop

EDITOR'S NOTE: If YOU have a memory, or many memories, that are not listed here, feel free to send them to me via US Mail, OR email
Email Address: [email protected]
Mailing Address: RTHS (Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society),
PO Box 144
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-0144

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