Westerville’s Fourth of July Rotary tradition stretches back to 1962

A crowd larger than Westerville’s entire 1962 population is expected to line State Street for this year’s Independence Day parade before gathering on Cleveland Avenue for fireworks after dark.

Westerville in 1962 was an old Ohio college town of roughly 7,000 people, where farms and quiet streets began to give way to subdivisions, highways, and modern sub…