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The perfect place to celebrate life’s milestones: weddings, anniversaries, family reunions, business meetings, and holiday entertaining with old fashioned music, jazz, or contemporary rock.

The Grand Army of the Republic Hall was originally built circa 1850 as a one-room schoolhouse for Boston Township. It was used as a school until a new building was constructed across the street in 1887. In 1888, the building was remodeled into a meeting place for Civil War veterans. The veterans named Grand Army of the Republic Post #272 in honor of George L. Waterman, a Peninsula native who was killed in Dayton while attempting to quell pro-slavery rioting.

The last members of the G.A.R. returned the property to the village in 1914. Veterans returning from World War I formed the Fauble Post of the American Legion and purchased the G.A.R. Hall from the village in 1931. The Fauble Post ceased to meet by 1959 and the property reverted to the State of Ohio’s American Legion. The struc ...