Gnadenhutten High School - Goal Yearbook (Gnadenhutten, OH)

Thirty-eight V Y p A, up THE GOAL Gnadenhutten. Markers were unveiled at the site of the First House, the old Canoe Ferry landing, the burial place of the re- mains of the old Indian Martyrs, the Mission Houseg the Copper Shop, the First Store, the First Churchg the Second Church and the First Parsonage. The next service was held at the Moravian Church. Here Bishop Van Vleck gave an address of Welcome. In the afternoon the people assembled un- der a large tent on the market lot. Here Rev. W. H. Rice gave a historical address on the life of John Heckewelder. After this ad- dress many other short addresses were giv- en by prominent men. In the evening the Musical Union gave a cantata, "David, the Shepherd Boy." It was hailed with enthusiastic applause by the audience. Thus ended the great Centennial Day? It is estimatedrthat P7000 people at- tended the services of the day. They were accommodated by special trains. Pres. McKinley had been invited to attend the ser- vices but was unable to leave Washington. It was a day of instructive and helpful in- fluence to ally and one of the biggest days in Gnadenhutten's history. The Print Shop In the early eighties W. T. Van Vleck established a print shop at Gnadenhutten. He first used the building pre-occupied by Charles Peter, a cabinet maker, for his ofiice and work shop. He did mostly job printing. However in 1889 he printed Gnadenhutten's first and only village paper, "The Gnaden- hutten Press." He publishd the paper monthly until 1894. The paper had a cir- culation of about 425. Mr. Van Vleck later moved his shop in the old carpet shop and continued his printing until his death in 1920. His printing equip- ment was purchased by the Gnadenhutten school, and by means of this equipment they publish and print the school paper, "The Times." The Gnadenhutten Foundry In 1891 John Frazier remodeled a barn on the Louis Peter property now the rear of Philip Gutensohn's lot, into a foundry. The work which was done was mostly molding. They made stove parts, sash weights and other articles. If you look close at the iron plates at the street crossings you will see the name, "Gnadenhutten Foundry" upon them. These are a product of the old foundry. Mr. Frazier was assisted in his foundry work by his sons John, Jr. and George. They continued the business about ten years. The Fruit Evaporators In the eighties, two fruit evaporators were in operation at Gnadenhutten. One was owned by John Neiderhouser and the other by Lawrence Huebner. Neiderhouser's evaporator stood near the present meat market and was a double evaporator. Mr. Huebner's was a single evaporator. In the year 1888 the two concerns produced 38,000 pounds of evaporated apples. It is also interesting to note that in that year 16,000 bushels of apples were made in- to cider, and 3000 bushels of winter apples were shipped from Gnadenhutten. It was a bumper crop. Gnadenhutten Today Gnadenhutten after 126 years of exist- ence is not a large town. Although the pop- ulation has been increasing steadily through- out all these years it is still a quiet village of about 600 inhabitants. With the coming of the Clay industry the prospects of the future of Gnadenhutten look very bright. Francis E. Nussbaum .,,,-