History, News and Stories of Columbus, Ohio, USA

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• 1812 - Columbus, Ohio founded
  
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• 1816 - Columbus named state capital.
  
• 1854 - Columbus
  Columbus city, capital of the state of Ohio, and seat of justice of Franklin county, is pleasantly situated on the E. bank of the Scioto river, 90... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1868 - THE BURNING OF THE OHIO LUNATIC ASYLUM.
  A Columbus dispatch of the 18th inst., to the Cincinnati Gazette, gives the following additional particulars of the burning of the Central Lunatic... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1872 - February 22 - 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
  
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•   1880 - April 2 - A mother propped up her baby in a chair in a photograph gallery in Columbus, Ohio, to have its picture taken, and then excused herself for a moment. She has not yet returned.
  The Cambria Freemen
  Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
  April 2, 1880
  
•   1888 - The factory of the Buckeye Buggy Company at Columbus, O., was burned on the 13th, causing a loss of $150,000.
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  March 17, 1888
  
• 1895 - Columbus
  Columbus, the capital city of Ohio and the county seat of Franklin co., is situated on the Scioto River, by rail 120 miles N.E. of Cincinnati, 138... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1899 - ENGINE KILLS SIX. SEVEN MEMBERS OF AN OHIO FAMILY RUN DOWN BY TRAIN.
  At Columbus, Ohio, six members of a family of seven were killed at the Woodward Avenue crossing of the Big Four Railroad. The seventh lies in a... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1901 - July 24 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from the First National Bank in Austin, Texas.
  
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  July 24, 1901
  
•   1907 - BIG FOUR TRAIN WRECK. ONE OF THE FASTEST TRAINS ON NEW YORK CENTRAL WENT THRU OPEN SWITCH AT COLUMBUS, O. MANY PASSENGERS ARE INJURED.
  Columbus, O., June 18 - Big Four passenger train No. 19, one of the fastest trains on the New York Central lines, went thru an open switch today in... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1909 - $200,000 FIRE IN COLUMBUS. Blaze Destroys Five-Story Building Opposite the One in Which It Started.
  COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 26. - Fire which started by a gas explosion early to-day in the four-story building occupied by the Brunswick Bowling Company,... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1910 - November 7 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
  
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  November 7, 1910
  
• 1916
  Columbus, the capital city of Ohio and the county- seat of Franklin co., is situated on the Scioto River and on the Baltimore and Ohio, the... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1947 - September 15 - First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Ohio
  
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  September 15, 1947