What do you miss?

by | Mar 23, 2023 | Newsletters

 REMEMBER THE OLD GRANGE…   it was once a school  The old school, which later became a Grange Hall, was torn down after I moved here and used to be where the Summit Place housing area is now.  The above picture is of a model that someone made of the old...

Ada McCleary

by | Feb 28, 2023 | Newsletters

MRS. ADA L. McCLEARY Wife of Henry McCleary, the founder of our town Contributed by Charles H. Fattig    Ada L. Johnson was born 5 January 1861 in Winchester, Ohio. She married our Henry McCleary on 29 October 1885 in Guernsey County, Ohio.    They came out west to...

We had a Movie Theater?

by | Feb 28, 2023 | Newsletters

From the Newsletter January 2019 From McCleary Movie Theater, to Auction House, to Ash Once upon a time, along about 1924 or 25, McCleary opened a movie theater. G.W. “Bill” Armour was owner/manager of a theater built by contractor H.N. Palamater in the booming town...