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Green Lawn Cemetery is an active historic private rural cemetery located in Columbus, Ohio, in the United States. Organized in 1848 and opened in 1849, the cemetery was the city's premier burying ground in the 1800s and beyond. An American Civil War memorial was erected there in 1891, and chapel constructed in 1902.
Goodale Park is a public park in the Victorian Village area of Columbus, Ohio. It was donated to the city in 1851 by Lincoln Goodale. For a few months during the Civil War, it was a staging area for Union troops known as Camp Jackson. [ 3 ] ComFest, a large, free, multi-day, non-corporate, music and arts annual festival, is held in the park in ...
The High and Gay Streets Historic District is a historic district in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [1] The district includes 18 buildings, including three that are non-contributing, and one contributing building that has since been demolished.
There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [ 1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [ 2] During the Convention, the county was opposed to statehood, and was not only left out of the ...
Valley Dale Ballroom. / 40.002408; -82.937170. The Valley Dale Ballroom is a historic building in Columbus, Ohio. Constructed in 1925, it became a nationally known ballroom during the Big Band era of the 1930s and 1940s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and the Columbus Register of Historic Properties in 1985.
Columbus Union Station was an intercity train station in Downtown Columbus, Ohio, near The Short North neighborhood. The station and its predecessors served railroad passengers in Columbus from 1851 until April 28, 1977. The first station building was the first union station in the world, built in 1851. Its replacement was built from 1873 to ...
May 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Three people died and three others were wounded in an early morning shooting in Ohio's capital over the weekend, authorities said. Columbus police ...
The Columbus Park of Roses is a 13-acre (5.3 ha) park and garden, one of the largest public rose gardens in the country. The park has about 11,000 rose specimens and 350 varieties. [ 1] The park is located within the 148-acre (60 ha) Whetstone Park; both are operated by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department.