Decoration Day Drew Many in 1900’s in Grant City

This Decoration Day picture, taken between 1905 and 1910, was taken in the Worth County Courtyard on the south end. It was posted on the Worth County Progress Organization’s Facebook Page. A crowd would listen to an orator, then they would go and decorate the graves. Back in those days, there was a sidewalk that ran all the way from Grant City to the cemetery. There was a swinging bridge that crossed the creek west of town. Bill Mozingo recalled that there was a swinging bridge across Middle Fork, south of Gentry. The first such event was organized in 1879, when the citizens met in the Courtyard, then marched to the cemetery to decorate the Civil War Veterans’ graves.