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By the early 1990s, Columbus had grown to become Ohio's largest city in land area and in population. Efforts to revitalize downtown Columbus have had some success in recent decades, though like most major American cities, some architectural heritage was lost in the process.
Jun 25, 2008 · At the end of 1862, General Ambrose Burnside had been place in command of the Union Army of the Potomac after General George McClellan had failed to either bring the war to a speedy end or...
Jun 17, 2009 · In 1896, with the construction of a network of arches in the core of downtown, Arch City was born. As we look back at old pictures of Columbus 100 years ago, most of what we now think of as...
Jul 26, 2020 · By the early 1890s, Columbus -- like most Midwestern cities -- had a single, large streetcar company running electric streetcars that were heated in the winter and flew along city streets at...
- ED LENTZ
Dec 6, 2013 · In 1954 Columbus elected a new mayor whose leadership team knew that Columbus did not have to end up strangled by its suburbs. Mayor Sensenbrenner made it the central goal of his administration to keep his city healthy and safe from its suburbs.
Columbus currently has the largest land area of any Ohio city; this is due to Jim Rhodes's tactic to annex suburbs while serving as mayor. As surrounding communities grew or were constructed, they came to require access to waterlines, which was under the sole control of the municipal water system.
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Jun 26, 2024 · Columbus was planned in 1812 as a political centre by the Ohio legislature and was named for Christopher Columbus. The state government moved to the city in 1816 from Chillicothe , and Columbus later absorbed the nearby earlier settlement of Franklinton (founded 1797).
