The meat market in Meeker
Staff Reports
Marion County will have fun the 2 hundredth Anniversary of its founding with celebrations and occasions all year long. As a part of these celebrations, assorted “Moments and Reminiscences” from the previous 200 years will likely be shared each Saturday in 2020 within the Marion Star.
For a calendar of occasions and extra details about the bicentennial celebrations and actions, go to the Bicentennial Fb web page “Marion County Ohio Bicentennial Celebration” or www.marionhistory.com200.
The historic notes have been compiled and shared with the Star by the Marion Historic Society.
- The boys of Marion had been lucky to have their tonsorial wants met by quite a lot of institutions together with the store owned by F.A. Issleib positioned at 107 W. Middle Avenue. The store was “stocked with a cautious choice of bathroom waters, tonics, oils, and washes for the hair.” Three barbers, along with Mr. Issleib, attended to the shoppers who might additionally reap the benefits of “the best scorching, chilly, bathe, and vapor bathtub rooms within the metropolis.” Mr. Issleib was described as “a local of Weimar, Saxony, a type of jolly German varieties in whose firm one all the time finds a lot enjoyment.” Patrons of the shop might additionally buy tickets for voyages by means of the Hamburg-American Steamship Firm with its “celebrated steamers Furst Bismarck, Augusta Victoria, Columbia, and Normania.”
- Warren G. Harding and Florence Kling oversaw the development of their house at 380 Mt. Vernon Avenue in Marion throughout their engagement. They had been married within the house on July 8, 1891. It served as their major residence till transferring to Washington D.C. after Harding’s election as President of america in 1920. The two,500 sq. ft. Queen Anne-style house was initially painted a reddish-brown colour with brown trim. It featured 4 bedrooms, a reception corridor, a parlor, a library, a eating room, and a kitchen. Trendy options included indoor plumbing and fuel lighting. An oblong porch on the entrance of the home offered a cool place for stress-free in wicker furnishings.
- In 1903, the unique porch on Warren & Florence Harding’s house was changed with a bigger stone and concrete one with an inlaid, wood flooring and a “bandstand” space. The house was repainted to its now-familiar Kelly inexperienced with cream trim colours. Earlier than the 1920 marketing campaign, a meals storage room and a small lavatory had been added. The house, which has been open to the general public since 1926, lately underwent a whole renovation designed to return it to its 1920 look. Plans for the house, together with the Harding Presidential Library, to open in September of 2020 had been placed on maintain because of the coronavirus pandemic. Go to www.hardingpresidentialsites.org for extra data.
- Warren G. Harding served as President of america from 1921 till he died in 1923. His legacy, with its strengths and weaknesses, will now be preserved and shared within the Warren G. Harding Presidential Library & Museum in Marion. The power will embody an exhibit gallery, collections storage, analysis heart, occasion house, catering kitchen, convention room, administrative workplaces, and extra. The white brick exterior and its columns had been chosen to represent governmental buildings in Columbus and Washington D.C. in addition to the Harding Memorial. Stone inserts above every window characteristic a monogram utilized by the Hardings on private paperwork. Stained glass home windows and artwork deco designs complement the 1920’s period design.
- A settlement on the jap fringe of Marion County’s “Huge Woods” positioned west of the village of Marion was began c. 1823 when Colonel William Cochran bought 640 acres of land at what’s in the present day the junction of Huge Island, Grand, Montgomery, and Salt Rock Townships. Cochran operated a put up workplace out of his house and Cochranton was born. In 1844, Herman Scott bought a few of Cochran’s land and began a retailer round which a neighborhood developed. It turned often known as Scott City or Scottstown though the put up workplace remained as Cochranton. Round 1905, a person by the title of Meeker satisfied the residents {that a} railway was coming by means of the neighborhood with the end result that in 1908 the residents renamed it Meeker in his honor. The railway by no means got here, however the title stayed.
- Meeker was the house of Elmer Kerr’s Common Merchandise and Webb’s Meat Market for a few years. Kerr’s offered all kinds of things together with clothes, {hardware}, farm provides, and basic merchandise. It additionally served as a put up workplace website for a few years. A supply service operated each day from the shop to the “huge metropolis” of Marion and transported each freight and passengers.
- The Montgomery Township College was positioned adjoining to the Meeker Methodist Episcopal Church on Most important Avenue. It closed in 1923 with the centralization of the agricultural colleges and the development of the Montgomery Rural College on the northeast finish of the village. The constructing was bought in 1925 by the Girls Support Society of the church to be used as a neighborhood heart and Sunday College school rooms.