Yes, it was a stagecoach road connecting Greenville, Ohio, and Granville, Ohio. Several buildings that still stand in Dublin were built as hotels for travelers along this route. The building at the corner of Bridge Street and High Street, (today’s Donato’s Pizza) 6 South High Street, built in 1832, was …
Blocks of ice were cut from the river in the winter and stored in special ice houses, then sold during the summer to put up in the kitchen “ice box”. Straw separated the blocks of ice in the ice houses to keep them from sticking together as they melted.
Early phones were on a local network and were operated with a hand-crank to generate a signal that got the attention of an “operator” who connected the caller with the person being called. Telephone numbers were not needed. Then, the system was more sophisticated, with an electrical-mechanical signal transfer or …
Linworth is halfway between Worthington and Dublin, and this community, which formerly was named Elmwood, changed its name to Linworth, taking the “Lin” from Dublin and the “Worth” from Worthington! Deborah A. Black writes in the Horch Family History, in the “Memories” publication of the Dublin Historical Society, 1997, that …
Yes, in the early days the sawmills were water-powered and located on the river, but later there was a steam-powered sawmill located near what is now the intersection of Sawmill Road and Route 161.
It will help for the reader to try to think of what the river might have looked like before the dams were built. The water level would have varied depending on rainfall, and people would have known where the shallow points were. These became convenient fords where riders on horseback, …
Yes, ancient cultures called the Hopewells and the Adenas left behind ceremonial mounds still identifiable at one location. Later, the Wyandot tribe, whose primary town was in the vicinity of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, frequented the area we call Dublin as a hunting ground. The river was a route north and …
The earliest settlers used the rivers the way we use highways and freeways today. The Ohio River and the Scioto River were the direct routes to Dublin. Many early settlers came from Pennsylvania. From interior Pennsylvania, people found their way to the Youghighany River in the southwestern part of the …
The Scioto River provided transportation and at the same time the site was between high limestone bluffs that would prevent flooding the farmland. Large quantities of clay, sand gravel and timber were nearby. These were important building materials. Clean drinking water was plentiful, supplied by at least seven natural springs. …
A few factors may be in play: There already was a German community forming in Columbus, what we know today as German Village Land was cheap for hard-working people who wanted to start a new life. They were only one generation away from the wars and despotism in their homeland …