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Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, was founded on the east bank of the Scioto River in 1812. The city was founded as the state's capital beside the town of Franklinton, since incorporated into Columbus. The city's growth was gradual, as early residents dealt with flooding and cholera epidemics, and the city had few direct connections to other ...
Taking down a streetcar arch at Broad and Wall streets, 1915. Arches were first used on streets in Columbus in 1888. The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), a national veterans organization, held its 22nd annual convention in the city that year, bringing about 250,000 people to the city that had held a population of about 90,000.
The Union Station arch is a 35 ft (11 m) Beaux-Arts arch standing at McFerson Commons Park in Columbus, Ohio. The work was designed by renowned architect Daniel Burnham , as part of a grand entranceway to the city's Union Station .
How do the state’s two biggest cities navigate their relationships with state lawmakers? And how does that affect the dollars they get?
The Fort Loudoun Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River comprises Louisville's northern border. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.5 square miles (35.0 km 2), of which 11.7 square miles (30.4 km 2) is land and 1.8 square miles (4.6 km 2), or 13.18%, is water. [6]
Members of the Louisville Rollers, a precision skating club, glide to the music in 1983 in Shawnee Park as part of the West Louisville Appreciation Celebration. The 1940s
Twenty years ago, the future of downtown Louisville, Kentucky's Whiskey Row was hard to see. The block-long stretch of historic buildings dating back to the mid-to-late 1800s was largely empty ...
Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /, kə-LUM-bəs) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.With a 2020 census population of 905,748, [10] it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas).