Grandview Trivia!

Think you know Grandview Heights? Try your hand at the questions below and put your knowledge to the test! (With a big thank you to Dan Massey)

For the record, not one team had a perfect score!

1) Name the Hall of Fame outfielder, largely considered among the 10 best players ever, who played for the Harrisburg Giants when the Negro Leagues played their first game at Rossmere Base Ball park to avoid state blue laws in 1925?

Oscar Charleston

2) Who is the current principal of Schaeffer Elementary?

Elizabeth Edwards

3) Aside from Coyle Ave (which has zero residential addresses specifically allocated to it) which street in Grandview Heights has the fewest number of homes with an address allocated to that street?

Cameron Ave (3) ... Elizabeth Ave (also 3)

4) Samuel R. Slaymaker, representing the Lancaster County Congressional District, was a member of the Electoral College in 1920. For what winning Presidential candidate did he cast his electoral vote for?

Warren Harding

5) Tusitala is a Samoan word meaning “Teller of Tales” or “Writer of Stories” and was also the name of a miniseries about what 19th century Scottish novelist who spent time in Samoa and garnered Tusitala as a nickname during his time there?

Robert Louis Stevenson

6) What structure within Grandview Heights, completed in 1946, was nearly constructed on the wrong plot of ground when the stakes marking out the site of the building were placed on an adjoining lot as opposed to the proper plot of land?

Grandview Church

7) In 1934, the Grandview Heights Corporation started a campaign to solicit 6‐word ads and slogans for the new development. What was chosen as the winning slogan, for a prize of $25, from the over 6,000 entries? A) A Modern Development for Modern Families B) Lancaster Is Moving to Grand View Heights C) The Little City in the Country D) Your Residence is Your Best Reference

C) The Little City in the Country

8) The early members of the McGrann family in Lancaster were not just farmers but also financiers. They ran the banking company Reed, McGrann and Co., which was eventually merged into what Lancaster banking institution that was autonomous until a 1970 acquisition of its own?

Conestoga National Bank

9) What erstwhile Lancaster County brand had a grocerette at 868 Fountain Ave after Kilheffer’s Store was no longer there and lasted into the 1980s?

Pensupreme

10) Although the concept of Grandview Heights was hatched in 1925, in what year is it most likely that houses were first completed in the development?

1928

Grandview Trivia!

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