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Historic site. 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.
Year Name Highest Rank Notability Sources 1802 Joseph Gardner Swift: Colonel Bvt. Brigadier General First graduate ever, Superintendent of the Military Academy (1812–1814) and Chief of Engineers; resigned 1818, surveyor of the port of New York, government civil engineer.
Rush Creek Village Round House. Rush Creek Village is a historic neighborhood in Worthington, Ohio, just north of Columbus.It was founded in 1954 by Martha and Richard Wakefield, who—along with architect Theodore Van Fossen—designed and built a community of 48 houses (later expanded to 51) based on Frank Lloyd Wright's principles of Usonian architecture.
Carr was born Joseph Francis Karr on October 23, 1879, at his parents' home in the Irish neighborhood on the East End of Columbus, Ohio. [1] [2] His father, Michael Karr, was a shoemaker who was born in Ireland in 1841 and immigrated to the United States in 1864. [3] [4] His mother Margaret Karr was born in New York to Irish immigrant parents. [3]
Oktoberfest will be held at the Ohio Expo Center, 717 E. 17th Ave., where hours will be 5 p.m. to midnight Sept. 6, noon to midnight Sept. 7 and noon to 8 p.m. Sept. 8. Admission is free. Parking ...
December 30, 1974. Boundary increase. November 28, 1980. German Village is a historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just south of the city's downtown. It was settled in the early-to-mid-19th century by a large number of German immigrants, who at one time comprised as much as a third of the city's entire population.
Schmidt's Sausage Haus. Schmidt's Sausage Haus und Restaurant is a German restaurant in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The business, in operation since 1886, is a contributing part of the German Village historic district, on the local and national registers of historic properties.
Alfred Kelley mansion. The Alfred Kelley mansion was a historic house in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was the home of Alfred Kelley, built in 1838. The house stayed in the family for decades, and was later an Ohio governor's mansion, and further on, a Catholic school. It was abandoned in the 1950s, and was deconstructed in 1961 in order to build ...