Granville

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Granville is a quaint, New England-style community located in Licking County (east central Ohio) along the western edge of the Appalachian Plateau.  It is the home of Denison University. The Village has a permanent population of 3,200 and a total population of 5,100 when the college students are in session.  The nearly completed New Albany-to-Granville connector highway (SR 161) will shorten commute times from Granville to northeast Columbus to approximately 20-30 minutes.

Granville was founded in 1805 by New Englanders from Granville, Massachusetts and Granby, Connecticut, who sought more fertile farmland.  Before leaving New England, the Village design was planned in great detail using the traditional New England town center.  Advance parties came westward early in 1805 to plant corn for the fall harvest and to erect a mill for sawing lumber and grinding corn.  They also laid out the farm and village plats.

The Village began to prosper and achieved early maturity in the first part of the 19th century.  The Ohio Canal (Cleveland to Portsmouth) was begun in 1825 and passed through Licking County several miles east of Granville.  A feeder canal was constructed and the commerce that resulted made Granville a thriving community.

Educational institutions have played an important role in the development of the Village of Granville.  Three weeks after the main party of immigrants arrived in Granville, a committee was appointed to establish a school for the eighty children. Academies and colleges were founded and flourished; eventually becoming an important business for the Village.  The Granville Literary and Theological Institution (1831) later became Granville College (1845) and then Denison University (1856), one of the outstanding private liberal arts colleges in the country.  In 1833, the Female Academy was founded. In 1867, the Female Academy was rechartered as the Granville Female College, which closed in 1898. in 1832, the Granville Female Seminary began and was later renamed The Young Ladies’ Institute in 1861. In 1886, The Young Ladies’ Institute was renamed as the Shepardson College.

In 1880, the Ohio Central Railroad came to Granville with the interurban street railway ten years later connecting the Village to nearby Newark.

Granville has retained its small town charm characterized by quaint, locally-owned retail shops, historic homes and churches, tree-lined boulevards, and stately buildings located on College Hill.  Granville maintains its ties to the past by preserving a historic district that contributes over one hundred buildings to the National Register of Historic Places.  There's something for everyone when it comes to real estate in Granville - homes in the historic village, wonderful neighborhoods, acreage in the township and the Welsh Hills countryside, wooded land, horse and alpaca farms, golf course developments - plus beautiful tree-lined streets, unique and quaint shops in the downtown area, a highly respected public school system, the Saturday morning Farmer's Market, street and antique fairs throughout the year, outdoor concerts, the quintessential Fourth of July Festival, our historic Inns, Bryn Du Mansion, the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra, a strong sense of community pride, and so much, much more!

Let us help you discover our passion - and fall in love with the community of Granville like we have.  We promise that you won't be disappointed!

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