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Old June 28th, 2009, 07:51 PM   #81
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Old June 29th, 2009, 04:46 PM   #82
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Old Franklinton Cemetery
Today not much is left of the Old Franklinton Cemetery other than a few weather-worn headstones and a 26' tall granite obelisk to commemorate the first church established in the area. Lucas Sullivant donated the land and built the church in 1811. The Old Franklinton Cemetery is located on River Street, just off Souder Avenue.

In 1824, Lucas Sullivant died of a fever at the age of 58 and was buried in the Old Franklinton Cemetery, but when the newer Green Lawn Cemetery was created in 1848, Sullivant's descendents had his body disinterred and moved to Green Lawn where his marker proudly stands among the 100s of other Columbus dignitaries that made Columbus the city it is today.

Lucas Sullivant, more than just about anyone else, was responsible for establishing the first permanent, truly American settlement in the Ohio Territory at a time when there was nothing but danger surrounding them. His foresight, industrial and resourceful nature made it possible for future generations to thrive and prosper.

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Old July 1st, 2009, 04:33 PM   #83
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Okay, this is sort of like my Circleville posts. Lancaster is not part of the City of Columbus and its not a suburb, but it is located in Fairfield County, which like Pickaway County, is part of the Greater Columbus area. Also, thousands of people commute from Lancaster to Columbus and its suburbs every day. Also, as is the case in many cities, sprawl from Columbus is now invading Northwest Fairfield county.

Lancaster (is not pronounced LAN-ka-ster but LANG-kiss-ter by most locals) is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 35,335. It is located near the Hocking River, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Columbus, Ohio. It is the county seat of Fairfield County. The current mayor of Lancaster is Republican David S. Smith, who took office in January 2004. In November 2007, Smith won reelection to a second four-year term commencing in January 2008.

The earliest known inhabitants of the southeastern and central Ohio region were the Hopewell, Adena, and Fort Ancient Native Americans, of whom little evidence survived, beyond the burial and ceremonial mounds built throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. Many mounds and burial sites have also yielded archaeological artifacts. (See also: Serpent Mound and Hopewell Culture National Historic Park, which though not located in Fairfield County proper, are very close by.)

Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes. It served as a natural crossroads for the inter-tribal and intra-tribal wars fought at various times (See also: Beaver Wars). Noted frontier explorer Christopher Gist reached the vicinity of Lancaster on January 19, 1751, when he visited the small Delaware town of "Hockhocking" nearby. Leaving the area the next day, Gist rode southwest to "Maguck," another Delaware town near Circleville.

Having been ceded to the United States by Great Britain after the American Revolution by the Treaty of Paris, the lands north of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachian Mountains became, in 1784, incorporated into the Northwest Territory. White settlers began to encroach on Native American lands in the Ohio Territory. As the new government of the United States began to cast its eye westward, the stage was set for the series of campaigns that culminated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 , and the Treaty of Greenville in 1795. With pioneer settlement within Ohio made legal and safe from Indian raids, developers began to speculate in land sales in earnest.

Knowing that such speculation, combined with Congressional grants of land sections to veterans of the Revolution, could result in a lucrative opportunity, Ebenezer Zane in 1796 petitioned the US Congress to grant him a contract to blaze a trail through Ohio, from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Limestone, Kentucky, (near modern Maysville, Kentucky) a distance of 266 miles (428 km). As part of the deal, Zane was awarded square-mile tracts of land at the points where his trace crossed the Hocking, Muskingum, and Scioto rivers. Zane's Trace, as it has become known, was completed by 1797 , and as Zane's sons began to carve the square-mile tract astride the Hocking into saleable plots, the city of Lancaster formally came into being in 1800. It predated the formal establishment of the State of Ohio by three years.

The initial settlers were predominantly of German stock, and emigrated from Pennsylvania. Ohio's longest continuously operating newspaper, the Lancaster Eagle Gazette, was born of a merger of the early Der Ohio Adler, founded about 1807, with the Ohio Gazette, founded in the 1830s. The two newspapers were ferocious competitors—they were on opposite sides of the Civil War, as was the split populace of the city itself—until they merged in 1937. This was shortly after the Gazette was acquired by glassmaker Anchor-Hocking. The newspaper is currently part of the Newspaper Network of Central Ohio, which is in turn a unit of Gannett, Inc.

Initially known as New Lancaster, and later shortened by city ordinance (1805), the town quickly grew; formal incorporation as a city came in 1831. The connection of the Hocking Canal to the Ohio and Erie Canal in this era provided a convenient way for the region's rich agricultural produce to reach eastern markets.

Modern Lancaster is distinguished by a rich blend of 19th-century architecture (best evidenced in historic Square 13, part of Zane's original plot) and natural beauty (best evidenced by the famous Standing Stone, today known as Mount Pleasant) with all the typical modern accoutrements of a small-medium-sized American city.


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Old July 1st, 2009, 04:52 PM   #84
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Lancaster

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General William T. Sherman. A great Civil War Hero and native son. vvvv









Glass Museum (there use to be a factory on Main, but it closed a few years back and the buildings were leveled.) vvvv






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Old July 1st, 2009, 05:07 PM   #85
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Lancaster

Downtown, around the square. Part Three







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Old July 2nd, 2009, 05:25 PM   #86
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I just thought this was cool. An old mailbox in German Village which is actually in German! Das ist toll!!!!

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Old July 2nd, 2009, 06:52 PM   #87
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Census: Central Ohio keeps growing
Lithopolis, Powell, New Albany, Columbus at top of new statistics
Thursday, July 2, 2009 3:17 AM
By Erin Dostal

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Three of the five fastest-growing cities in the state -- Lithopolis, Powell and New Albany -- are in central Ohio, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau yesterday.

Their population growth reflects a trend throughout the seven-county region, said Nancy Reger, a demographer for the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission.

"It's been a trend for 20 years, and I think the reason for that is that this part of the state is strongest for jobs," Reger said. "Why leave?"

Natural population growth is likely the reason for the numbers in Lithopolis, Powell and New Albany, because people there tend to start families, she said.

Columbus, on the other hand, grows by attracting people from elsewhere. And unlike Ohio's other large cities, which either flat-lined or lost population in the past year, Columbus added people. The Census Bureau said the city had 754,885 residents through July 1, 2008, about 1 percent more than the year before.

The local economy and the presence of Ohio State University are magnets, Reger said.

Lithopolis, a Fairfield County community about 17 miles southeast of Columbus, had about 1,070 residents, according to the census report, for a 7.4 percent increase. It is the third straight year that Lithopolis has had the largest percentage growth in Ohio.

Mayor Eric Sandine said his "small town" has grown since 2000, but he thinks the village's population is higher than reported.

Before 2007, Lithopolis did not report all of the village's ongoing construction to the state Department of Development, Sandine said. Because the number of new buildings in the village affects population estimates, he said, the data may not be accurate until the census in 2010.

Powell spokesman Jeff Robinson said the city has been growing for years. For 2008, the census said it had 12,814 residents, a 5.9 percent increase. That placed it third statewide in change.

"It's not a surprise to us that it has been what it's been," Robinson said. "We anticipate that the growth will continue."

During the past year, Ohio's population grew 0.1 percent, to 11.49 million.

Despite the city's increase in the past year, Columbus fell from being the 15th largest city in the U.S. to the 16th, placing below Austin, Texas. Austin's population was about 757,688 residents. Columbus ranked above Fort Worth, Texas, with a population of about 703,073.

But a lower rank does not mean the city is not growing, said Hazel Morrow-Jones, a professor of city and regional planning at Ohio State University.

"It's not so much that we're getting smaller," she said. "It's that some other city is growing faster."

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Old July 3rd, 2009, 08:49 PM   #88
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Jefferson Place and Jefferson Street, Downtown Columbus, Ohio











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Long Street and the arch which is sort of the gate to the King-Lincoln District vvvv





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Back to Jefferson Place and my car vvvv



This building is on the National Registar of Historic Places, Although I'm not sure why. All I saw was a plaque on the side of the building. vvvv









Driving Down Spring Street vvvv


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Old July 3rd, 2009, 09:32 PM   #89
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THE Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.

Around "the Shoe".

The Shoe from the Woddy Hayes Drive Olentangy River Bridge vvvv




The Schottenstein Center a.k.a. "The Schott" vvvv





Lincoln and Morrill Towers on the right hand side vvvv



St. John's Arena on the left hand side vvvv





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St. Johns again vvvv



































Knowlton Hall vvvv





















Fisher Hall vvvv



Mason Hall, Schoenbaum Hall, and Neilwood Gables vvvv





Fisher Again vvvv



Pfahl Executive Education Building vvvv



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Old July 5th, 2009, 01:59 AM   #91
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Question. Do you think Chillicothe counts as "central Ohio" or is it southern Ohio?
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More from German Village's German past


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High Street from State to Rich Street

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State and High Straße vvvv



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Old Ohio National Bank building @ High and Town Street vvvv









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Update on the Front Street Condo's





















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Walking up Town Street, there are plaques which tell you the History of the Lazarus Co. building and the different stages its gone through the years.







Looking down Town Street towards the Scioto River











The side of the Ohio National Bank vvvv



Inside the Lazarus Co. buiding. The passage vvvv













































City Center Mall. Soon to meet its fate! And Thank God too! vvvv








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Interesting details of the Old Deaf School.

There was talk of turning the building into condo's, but I'm not sure where things are now.

The Topiary Garden is very unique and it is a part of the Old Deaf School Park in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

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Columbus Main Library.



























Looking down State Street. Grant Hopital is on the left and the Boys and Girls Club is on the right. vvvv





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Iranian-Americans protesting the Short North, along High Street. vvvv













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More from Dennison Place..... I Think.

This area is called E.J. Millen Homestead Addition. to the best of my knowledge this area is still considered Dennison Place, although this part of the neighborhood is more populated by off campus student houing and their for isn't as "pretty" as the streets south of King Avenue. Its also home to the Battelle Memorial Insitute













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