Jim Metcalf, of the Kiwanis Club of West Geauga, requested permission to apply for a historical marker at the Geauga Seminary during the Chester Township Trustees meeting Feb. 20.
Jim Metcalf, of the Kiwanis Club of West Geauga, requested permission to apply for a historical marker at the Geauga Seminary during the Chester Township Trustees meeting Feb. 20.
Former President James A. Garfield attended the Geauga Seminary, a free will Baptist school, on the corner of Chillicothe Road and Seminary Lane from 1849 to 1850.
It was torn down in 1927.
“Hopefully, they’ll apply and we’ll get a historical marker in our township recognizing that site,” Trustee Craig Richter said in a phone interview Feb. 25.
He said Kiwanis will try and raise money for the $4,500 application cost.
Richter said there could be another historical marker that would go in the cemetery for the revolutionary soldiers there.
