Once outlined by hitching posts for horses on the Wooster Pike stagecoach line, renovated into a mid-20th century drug store, and now a favorite for coffee, pastry, and ice cream, what is now Cool Beans Cafe has always played an intregal part in Medina's development. Cool Beans Cafe is presently located on the spot where Captain Badger's log cabin once stood, the first building on the Medina Public Square. Captain Badger likely lost his home in a fire, however Hiram Bronson, Medina County Sheriff in 1842, acquired the lot and built a mercantile store there. Bronson believed that Medina would prosper, and prosper is exactly what it did. Mr. Bronson kept his business running until 1861. | Source: Medina Community Design CommitteeDownload Original File
