Century Village Museum road to be named after the late Jeannette ‘Teeter’ Grosvenor – News-Herald
Century Village Museum in Burton Village will salute one of Geauga County’s renowned historians during a special program on April 24.
Leaders of the museum, owned and operated by the Geauga County Historical Society, will announce that Grosvenor Lane has been chosen as the new name of a road within its property.
Century Village Museum is based at 14653 E. Park St.
A currently unnamed road on the museum grounds will be dedicated in a 1 p.m. ceremony as Grosvenor Lane, in honor of historian and genealogist Jeannette “Teeter” Grosvenor. A lifelong resident of Geauga County, Grosvenor died in 2019 at age 95.
“Her contributions to Geauga County history and the Geauga County Historical Society go beyond the deep understanding and knowledge of genealogy and history she so readily shared,” Century Village Museum volunteer Ann Thomas wrote in a tribute to Grosvenor that is posted on the organization’s website. Her many projects and publications will enable those who come long into the future to discover who their ancestors were and what they did.”
One specific project that Thomas cited in her commendation was Grosvenor’s role in organizing the society’s Shanower Memorial Library, which is located at Century Village Museum.
“As part of this important work, ‘Teeter’ brought us into the modern world when she transferred records of our artifacts from paper to searchable computer files,” Thomas wrote.
After Grosvenor died, a group of Century Village Museum volunteers, including Thomas, gathered to discuss ideas for honoring a woman who did so much to research and document the area’s history.
“And that’s when we decided we would name a street for her,” Thomas said, in an April 15 telephone interview with The News-Herald.
The volunteers who banded together then took their proposal to the Geauga County Historical Society Board. The board gave its approval to carry out the project.
“(Our group of volunteers) got it organized and accomplished,” Thomas said, during the phone interview.
The April 24 ceremony to recall Grosvenor’s life, and to name a road after her, will begin with a program in Century Village Museum’s Auburn Church. Those attending the event will hear from two featured speakers: Cheryl McClellan, a genealogist; and Diane Kellogg, a relative of Grosvenor.
Open houses also are scheduled in Century Village’s Maple Museum and Shanower Memorial Library.
Thomas said the program will be a good opportunity to celebrate Grosvenor’s life and accomplishments.
“Ms. Grosvenor left as strong a legacy as any historian or genealogist could wish for,” she wrote in her website submission.
