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Ohio University was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the Board of Treasury of the United States and the Ohio Company of Associates, which set aside the College Lands to support a university, and subsequently approved by the territorial legislature in 1802 and the Ohio General Assembly in 1804, [1] [2] [3] opening for students in 1809. [4]
1914: The Columbus City Charter is adopted. 1917: Women are granted the right to vote in municipal elections. [1] 1919: The Spring Street YMCA opens. [11] 1920. Planning begins for buildings in the Columbus Civic Center. [1] Population: 237,031. [5] 1922: Ohio State University's Ohio Stadium built. [2]
The building also houses Ohio's state archives, also managed by the Ohio History Connection. The museum is located at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, site of the Ohio State Fair, and a short distance north of downtown. The history center opened in 1970 as the Ohio Historical Center, moving the museum from its former site by the Ohio State University.
The Oval on the Ohio State University campus 39°59′58″N 83°0′46″W / 39.99944°N 83.01278°W / 39.99944; -83.01278 ( University, Hayes and Orton No
The city's Mound Street derives its name from a mound that existed by the intersection of Mound and High Streets. The mound's clay was used in bricks for most of the city's initial brick buildings; many were subsequently used in the Ohio Statehouse. The city's Ohio History Center maintains a collection of artifacts from these cultures. [1]
A Centennial Biographical History of The City of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio. The Lewis Pub. Co. 1901. OCLC 6613992. Franklin County at The Beginning of The Twentieth Century. Historical Publishing Company. 1901. Taylor, William Alexander (1909). Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio.
Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, United States. [9] The university was first conceived in the 1787 contract between the Board of Treasury of the United States and the Ohio Company of Associates, which set aside the College Lands to support a university, and subsequently approved by the territorial legislature in 1802 and the ...
The Ohio History Connection operates dozens of state historic sites across Ohio. Its headquarters is the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, a Brutalist concrete structure. [14] [15] Extensive exhibits cover Ohio's history from the Ice Age to the present. The Center includes state archives and library spaces ...