Features covering the Society’s community-engaging events.
On November 6, 2022 our GHS group walked around the Worthington Family Cemetery, saw the one outbuilding on the manor site which is still standing, examined a huge stone barn foundation and also examined a series of 12 fairly large flat stones which have sometimes been identified as slave grave markers. A report on Worthington…
RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY. That childhood ditty kept running through my mind for the two days before the GHS Spring Hike planned for Saturday, May 14th 2022. For two days the rain pelted and the forecast for Saturday looked even worse – nothing but thunderstorms in the offing. Luckily, on Saturday morning the forecast brightened…
On what turned into a pleasantly warm October 24th afternoon, a dozen members of the Granite Historical Society, not to mention a few non-members, toured the Worthington Manor site (sometimes called “Worthington Plantation”), the home and center of farming activity for Thomas Worthington starting in the 1760s. T.W. was the largest landholder in Granite history….
