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Grandview Lake
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| 1950’s | Grandview Lake was planned by Q. G. Noblitt who bought a beautiful valley and surrounding acreage in western Bartholomew County. Q. G. envisioned a lake site and convinced Phillip Long and Denzel Truex to form a development company. |
| 1953 | The Grandview Development Company was formed on July 14, 1953 and signed a land contract mortgage on about 2500 acres owned by Mr. Noblitt. James O. Freese, a Franklin civil engineer, designed the dam, and was the first secretary of the development company. |
| 1960 | A terrible rainstorm deluged the area. That night only the close cooperation and determination of the lot owners and builders protected the uncompleted dam. Slow lot sales, partially due to the incomplete dam, pushed the Grandview Development Company into bankruptcy. |
| 1963 | On July 2, 1963, Lawrence A. Quick, Jr., Dr. Edwin Libbert and William G. Chambers, shareholders operating under the name of Grandview Lake, Inc, purchased the property at a sheriff’s sale. They had borrowed money from College Life Insurance Company and immediately transferred ownership of the property back to College Life. |
| 1965 | College Life marketed the unsold lots, starting with the Third Addition in August 1965 through Grandview Estates. They created new additions to the Town of Grandview as needed. A new launching ramp was installed in 1967. |
| 1968 | A group of lot owners concerned about maintaining the purity of the lake, contracted the design of a unique pressure sewer system. A grant was provided by the Farm Home Administration (FMHA) to demonstrate its feasibility. The system operated as a research project for three years and became the first and finest such system in the country. |
| 1970 | College Life abandoned plans for a connecting lake west of the current lake and focused on the completion of the Grandview project. |
| 1973 | Grandview Lake Inc. retained ownership of the dam to permit needed construction and maintenance. Robert Nussmeier, Charles Shepard and Lawrence Quick, who were later shareholders, sold the dam for $1.00 to the Grandview Lot Owners Association. |
| 1986 | Installed inclinometers to measure performance of the dam. |
| 1988 | Morin Timber Company purchased 1100 acres surrounding the Lake’s ring road with the intention of logging it and then developing residential lots. The community supported the GLOA Board’s successful efforts to purchase 643 of those acres, which largely form the Lake’s watershed. Today that land, up to the ridge and fifty feet beyond or deeper in some cases, constitutes the Grandview Woods Preserve. Rules were established to keep it in a natural state with low impact recreational use such as the recently established seven mile hiking trail that circles the Lake. |
| 1997 | Installed piezometers to measure water level at the bottom of the dam. |
| 2000 | The GLOA office was built between the launching ramp and the dam. |
| 2004 | A self serve gas pump was installed. 25,000 gallons of gas were sold the first year and usage increases each year. |
Activities
Grandview Garden Club - All ladies of the Grandview Lot Owners Association are invited to join the Grandview Garden Club. Meetings are held from March through December, usually on the first Thursday of the month. A variety of interesting programs and outings relating to gardening are scheduled either at a member’s home or on a field trip to a central Indiana site.
Yacht Club – The Grandview Yacht Club schedules sailboat races on Grandview Lake, generally starting the first Sunday in May and continuing on alternate Sundays through September. The Yacht Club also hosts breakfasts on the three major holidays of the summer, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day. These breakfasts are held at various lot owners’ homes which are open to all lot owners and their guests.
Ski Club – The Grandview Ski Club maintains the slalom ski course near the Dam and also hosts the Artic Open on the first Saturday in December.
Full Moon Parties – Whenever the weather warms in the spring, Full Moon Parties begin on the night before the Full Moon of each month. All lot owners are invited to meet in the center of the lake where boats are tied together to form a floating party barge. Everyone is asked to bring hors d’oeuvres to share and their own drinks.
Fishing – Grandview Lake is stocked with large mouth bass, walleye, blue gill, red ear, sunfish, crappie, perch, and channel catfish. Fish shelters are placed around the lake to encourage reproduction. Fishing is restricted to lot owners and their guests. No permit is required on private lakes.
Hiking - Grandview Lake Woods offers established trails that cover more than 7 miles for use by the lot owners and their guests. The Grandview Woods is home to a variety of wildlife common in the area.
Deer Hunt – A private deer hunt is conducted on restricted autumn dates in the Grandview Woods. All hunters must be a Grandview Lot Owner or sponsored by a Grandview Lot Owner and must be 18 
years of age and must present a Hunters Safety Certificate.
Water Sports – Boating, skiing, sailing, tubing, swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving, ice boating, ice skating, ice fishing and personal water crafts are all permitted within the Rules and Regulations of the Grandview Lot Owners Association. The Lake Safety Patrol actively enforces lake safety rules.
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