City Of Reynoldsburg history

Thomas Palmer arrived in 1803 and later built a grist mill with William Dean.

The following is an account of the village of Reynoldsburg and of the immediate neighborhood adjoining it; going back as far as the year 1805.

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His comrades buried him near the said camp, and fenced in the grave with poles, which had not decayed and could be seen in the year 1817 when the writer with hrs father moved into the neighborhood* The first settler on the sight of the town was a Mr.

The first church organization was the Seceder (now the United Presbyterian congregation) church, which took place in 1819 by the election of two Elders and the acceptation of William Graham (for the other) of the congregation of Cambridge of the State of New York.

Reynoldsburg was incorporated in March of 1839.

He previously to 1840 built a large frame grist mill on the south-west corner lot, but its expense broke him up.

Myers noted that the Livingston Seed Company, which Alexander Livingston founded in 1850, is still in business in Columbus.

There was regular preaching in this church for about forty years, until the new church was built in the village in the years 1860-1.

Another reason for growth in the area was the establishment of the Reynoldsburg Union Academy in 1868.

The Post Masters have been J. C. Reynolds, Harvey Miller, D. Graham, Deputy John Miller, V. Hutson, John Lynch, Nathaniel Mason, Jr., William Rhoads, the present incumbent (1885).

The Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival is a community event that started in 1965.

The company was founded in 1977 by Roy and Gaye Raymond as a response to packaged underwear, which Roy Raymond considered to be “ugly, floral-print nylon nightgowns.” Raymond sold Victoria’s Secret Inc. to Leslie Wexner, creator of Limited Stores, for $1 million.

Many classes were held at the Prairie Township Fire Department and many firefighters were trained here until 1978 when the state built the Ohio Fire Academy in Reynoldsburg.

Work on the mural, painted by Curtis Goldstein, began on September 12, 2009, starting with a portrait of Hannah Ashton, one of the founding members of the Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society.

Sixty-five percent of the city’s police officers hired since 2019 come from “underrepresented populations,” Begeny said.