Old Union City, Ohio Buildings to Get Signage
The Union City, Ohio, Wall of History Committee is working on getting signage for old business buildings on the Ohio side of this village.
Betty Grimes, who spearheads the Wall of History Committee, said she and her committee are in the process of gathering information for signs that will be created to identify all the businesses which have set up over the years on each individual site.
Grimes, working with committee members Scott Stahl, Nancy Rush, Paul Hartzell and Chad Wade, have been busy getting lots of information and addresses in order to get at least small signs for every building.
The Has-tee building, she reported, is getting a 12×18-inch sign for businesses that had set up on that lot over the years.
Grimes said the signage work is being done by Dave Flannery of Advanced Signs and Graphics in Muncie, Ind.
The signs are weather-proof and will be hung outside on the walls of the respective businesses, old and new.
Grimes said the committee welcomes anyone who wants to assist in getting information to them or by donating old telephone books and Polk residential/business directories to use in their search of all those businesses that have been established since the village was formed.
The signs will include wordage and some pictures of the respective businesses.
“We want to put up as many signs as we can to preserve history of Union City,” Stahl said. “Every year that goes by, memories fade.”
Anyone needing more information can contact Grimes at 937-968-4756 or any of the other committee members.
The Wall of History had its beginnings on March 16, 2011, when Grimes was asked by then-Village Administrator Bill Bruggeman to take on the project.
“The village had received some money from the Bectol Corp., a cell phone company that was located on the Weimer Property, a few years back to be used for such a project,” Grimes said. “When I went to village council to see about it that is when Bill asked me to oversee it.”
Thus, a committee was formed and rules and ordinances were set up by the group to help out in this effort.
PHOTO CAPTION: Shown with the sign that will go at the former Weimer’s Sorghum Mill site are Nancy Rush, Scott Stahl and Betty Grimes. (Linda Moody photo)
Story by The Early Bird – Greenville OH