Welcome to
Main Street Grafton
Celebrating and Strengthening Our Community through Our Mission to Enrich Lives, to Promote Economic Vitality, and to Embrace the Heart and Soul of Our Hometown Identity through Historic Preservation of Downtown Grafton Village.
Sponsored in Collaboration with Grafton Railroad Historical Society
Gussy Up the Grafton Caboose
Thank you, Volunteers, for all the wonderful work cleaning and painting July 16 - 21 !!
With support of a generous grant of Sherwin-Williams "Keep Ohio Beautiful"
We are still working on detailing, but LOOKING GOOD !
More HERE: Chronicle Telegram and Morning Journal coverage
Main Street Grafton is part of the
National Main Street Movement
The people who make up Main Street America are passionate advocates, dedicated volunteers, partners, and community organizers who work every day to turn the tide in their communities - catalyzing reinvestment, creating jobs, and fostering pride of place.
For more than 40 years, the National Main Street Center, a program established by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has led the development of a national network of more than 2,000 historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts known as Main Street America.
Main Street Grafton is a
member of Heritage Ohio
Main Street Grafton works under the direction of a 9-member volunteer Board of Directors, with its mission accomplished by committees, volunteers, organization partners, sponsors and donors.
The Heritage Ohio blueprint for downtown revitalization was developed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which recognized a pattern of loss of historic commercial architecture and loss of community sense of history. To stop with trend, the trust (established in 1977) developed a model for downtown historic preservation, which encompasses a four-point approach that Main Street Grafton uses as guiding principles. It includes design, business enhancement, marketing and organization. Heritage Ohio's mission is to help people save the places that matter, build community, and live better.
Main Street Grafton is a
501(c)3 Organization
Main Street Grafton is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization. We rely on our partners, donors and sponsors for donations in a variety of ways including financial support, volunteering time and in-kind donations. Learn more about our community and business partnerships, volunteers and donors.
Energizing Our Community While Promoting Our Historic Downtown