Columbus, Ohio, USA
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 Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago Mid St. Louis, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis and other railroads, 120 miles NE. of Cincinnati. Lat. 40° N. ; Lon. 83° W. The site of Columbus is an elevated plateau. The streets are broad and traversed by electric railways to all parts of the city. The chief avenues are Broad Street, 120 feet wide, running E. and W. and beautifully planted with shade-trees, and High Street, the principal business street. These avenues intersect each other at right angles, and have at their intersection a public square of 10 acres, in which is situated the state capital, 304 feet long by 184 feet wide, built of limestone quarried in the vicinity. Among the institutions of the city are the Ohio State University, with well-equipped technical laboratories and archaeological and other museums; the Capital University (Evangelical-Lutheran) ; Central Insane Asylum, with accommodations for upward of 1000 patients: the Asylum for Imbecile Youth, the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, Institution for the Blind, and the state penitentiary, adapted to the requirements of 2500 prisoners. Columbus is also the seat of the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Ohio Medical University, Columbus Art Institute, etc., and contains the state library. The city has superior advantages for inland trade, the principal articles of which are grain, wool, live-stock, and iron. Its leading industrial establishments embrace numerous carriage-factories, machine-shops, rolling- and planing-mills, foundries, and manufactories of agricultural implements, edge-tools, mining-machinery, shoes, saddlery and harness, regalia, cars and car-wheels, tile, bricks, soap, etc. Columbus was laid out in 1812, in the midst of an unbroken forest, on the high banks of the Scioto, and the town was incorporated in 1816. In the latter year it became the state capital. Pop. in 1860, 18,564; in 1870, 31,274; in 1880, 51,647; in 1890, 88,150; in 1000, 125.560.

Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher

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