THE VILLAGE OF GRANVILLE

“The village was surveyed and laid off April 7, 1836.  Its first settler was a man named Creswell, who built a cabin there in 1832-3.  The second house, a frame structure, was erected by Thomas Ware, in 1834.  In April, 1836, an addition was made to the village by Thos. Ware, James Parr, William Smith, Clarissa Ware, Archer and Margaret Hayslip.  It occupies a commanding site upon the prairie, affording a fine view of the surrounding country, approached in all directions by good roads.  Few localities present scenes of such varied sylvan beauty.  The farms are highly cultivated, the houses are elegant, the roads are bordered with hedges, and a profusion of shade and fruit trees beautify the landscape and add to its attractiveness.   The fathers of the settlement ‘built for all time,’and laid its foundation broad and deep in the eternal principles of truth and rectitude.  Early attention was given to schools, and the morals of the country were not overlooked.  It is to the credit of the citizens that no saloon has ever been licensed in the town, and whatever drunkenness there may have been was imporetd, and not ‘to the manor born.’…”

Reference Data:

Records of the Olden Times; Or Fifty Years on the Prairies, by Spencer Ellsworth, 1880, page 277