This photo, courtesy of the Library of Congress, shows the Woman Suffrage Headquarters in Cleveland in 1912 where the American Woman Suffrage Association was established in Cleveland in 1869. The inset photo is Mertie Bennett Smith, first woman elected to Village Council in Marble Cliff.

This undocumented professional photograph is thought to be documentation of the Panhandle Railroad celebration, or perhaps one from a previous year's railroad event.

Frederic Martin was granted a patent for the Bear-On-Easy washboard. A board from one of the glass shipping crates was donated by a local Grandview couple after they found it stored in their First Avenue basement.

Emily Bell Wilkinson Moelchert and her husband Chester (C.C.) Moelchert are shown in this 1924 photograph on the front sidewalk of their home at 1964 Cardigan in Marble Cliff.

Craft store owner and Grandview Heights resident Helen Winnemore in a 1938 photograph in her shop in her home on West 7th Avenue (Dennison Place) three years before purchasing her Grandview home on Glenn Avenue.

The rails played an important role as the area that is now Grandview Heights and Marble Cliff was opened to settlement. Several different types of “trains” carried passengers and freight that influenced how both the population and the economy of the region grew.

The Anderson Mound, aka Pope Mound, is seen here in this 1892 photo with the Pope farmhouse in the background. Mr. Pope built the stairs up the side of the mound to a picnic area on the top. At the right is an aerial photo showing its location.

Rev. J. S. Ricketts was a traveling minister and a local Grandview real estate developer, and the first mayor of Marble Cliff after it converted from a hamlet to a village in 1903. His son O. E. Ricketts was a partner in his real estate venture and an attorney in Columbus. (1896 & 1895 photos)

There is a narrow belt of limestone called Columbus and Monroe (Devonian) limestone that runs from just south of Columbus north through Delaware and Marion to Lake Erie at Marblehead near Sandusky.

The building at 1291 West Third in Grandview hasn’t changed much, but the signs indicate the several local businesses that operated there over the years. The photos are, clockwise from the upper left: Tower Confectionery, Franco’s Barber Salon, The Ohio Tap Room, and Barber Shop Imports used cars.