Ed Lentz

By the 1850s, railroads were opening up America's 'west'

Christmas 1910: Everyone enjoyed the Sunday holiday

Downtown was busy on New Year's Eve 1910

State and High streets: A picture from the past

Columbus 1861: growing, --with the pains to prove it

Growing community finds all levels of entertainment

Brother, can you spare a dime for a night's lodging?

Columbus' rivers did not provide a useful waterway

Industry made slow but steady progress in the city

Some of the basics taught 'office boys' still good today

Ralston Steel Car Co. was 'a truly great' enterprise

Foos lobbied for capital tobe named Columbus

Weather, flowers, candy sales all boded fair for Easter 1911

Janney involved himself in work, charity and more

Post-Revolutionary War land was cheap in Ohio

Memorial Day 1911: parades, services, decoration of graves

Trash: an ever-present problem for a growing city

Indian -trail lore doesn't always match up with fact

July 4, 1911, was deadly hot, but "safe and sane"

Modes of transportation evolve with growth of city

When building a capital city, first build a prison

McDowel led small group of volunteers at Bull Run

Early 'lady journalist' was a newsroom-savvy editor

Artists bring their talent to Ohio's 'infant' capital

Living in landmarks is a learning experience

Historian pictures a walk through early Columbus

Settlers' baby grew up in pace with Ohio's capital

Rites of autumn changed little over the years

Political campaigns grew slowly in central Ohio

Thanksgiving 1911: City thankful for prosperity

Early Columbus factories struggled, later flourished

1911 reference questions have contemporary sound

Two unassuming life stories illuminate area's history

Christmas 1911: Downtown was shoppers' destination

Summer 1833 was a time of cholera in Columbus

River names have convoluted origin

Sells family prominent among Dublin settlers

Columbus settlers in early 1800s met with hard times

Truro was carved from Refugee Tract

Tavern Town--Columbus in the early 1830s

Railroad, fair key to Hilliard history

Columbus Memorial Day 1912 was memorable event

Sullivant family guided West Side's growth

In 1812, a capital city was for sale

'Pluggy's Town' was native stronghold

A safe and sane Fourth of July

War hawks, war fears marked 1812

A little war leads to a little town

The Deshlers come to Columbus

College founder reveled in swagger

Working women in Columbus, circa 1912

The benefits of a very big ditch

City's first graveyard a gift from Kerr

Colorful characters mark Marysville's past

Labor Day preceded big vote in 1912

Whitehall owes its success to wars

1852 lithograph touches up statehouse

Local riding clubs date to 1892

Steelton was town's industrial hub

A place determined to be a town

Men loke Frazier made hotels run

Halloween was more slippery in 1912

A place called Pickerington

Cemeteries are windows to the past

Cold out, warm in for Thanksgiving 1912

Johnstown's settlementspans millenia

Grandview: where the river bends

Settlement came slowly to northwest

City saw busy beginning to 1913

Civil War made city 'an armed camp'

African-American community grew with city

A town of 'most excellent neighbors'Ed

We've seen many a January chill before

Columbus has its first birthday

City born as, remains a meeting place

Keeping order in early Columbus

Some found bloomers immodest

Streetcar history could repeat itself

St.Pat brings stormy spring to 1913

1913 flood changed Columbus

Home reached out to city's 'fallen women'

The evolution of getting around town

Early days in Merion Village neighborhoods

Settler's account of Franklinton's start

Joseph Sullivant and the riflemen

Foresight, grace made Gills a power couple

Industry, vision led to Buggy Co.

Century old pic rewards close examination

Memorial Day shapes up as family day

Ambitious Kelton found home in 'country'

Where they lived: The Germans

Fire services grew slowly in Columbus

General, chief meet in Franklinton

City's 4th a quieter affair in 1913

Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Morgan's raid

Brick paving boomed in the 1880s

Pioneer Brickell's path here was harrowing

North Market a memento of city's wild past

Art museum owes all to altruist's travels

We acted differently in Dog Days of old