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One curious resident wrote in to ask, "How did Shrock Road get its name?"

We asked Aaron O'Donovan of the Columbus Metropolitan Library to tell the story.

Shrock Road was named after a man named George Washington Shrock.

He was originally from Virginia and he moved to Blendon township in 1840.

He owned about a 137-acrefarm.

The street, or the road, led to his farm.

Shrock Road is just west of Westerville Road and it's one mile south of Westerville.

He's really well known for the huge sugar grove that he had had over 1,100 sugar maple trees, and he was said to have one of the best sugar houses in the country.

And he made a lot of candy and sweets--made a lot of syrup--and he was said to have actually invited Otterbein students over to make maple taffy and other confections.

He lived there for a long time and his ancestors ended up owning land there and also around that area.

George Shrock passed away on Christmas Day in 1877, and his wife, Rachel, died less than two years later, in 1879.

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