What is the history of Sugar Bush Knolls, Ohio?
(‘Source:’ 2005 Sugar Bush Knolls, Ohio Village Directory) Duting the Depression, the Davey Tree Company operated a nursery and experimental tree farm on the site of what is now called the Village of Sugar Bush Knolls. The Village was named for the sugar maple trees which originally stood near Lake Martin. The Davey Company owned the land where the village is now located and kept horses in the barn on Ferguson Road where the Framptons would later live. The company owned the small white house on the corner of Ferguson and Lake Martin Drive. During the early thirties, the company offered to let Charles Miller, one of its employees, and his family move into that house, which had no electricity, telephone, or well. In 1942 the Millers’ son, “Tuck”, and family moved in with the senior Millers. Calista Miller still lives in that house at 1115 Lake Martin Drive and remembers fondly her first year living out in the country. The street was just a gravel road then and did not extend out to Route
