Ed Lentz

Martin Legacy: early Columbus history

Missive paints picture of early life here

Labor Day typically hot, happy celebration

Sullivant's wife lived well in wild Ohio

An Ohio pursuit in a distant place

Tales to tell behind street, alley names

Hannah Neil was city's 'guardian angel'

City has three statues of namesake

Earliest sewers took quickest path to rivers

Downtown was hub of Halloween 1913

Joseph Vance's service bears remembering

Mound St. mound was one of many

A frontier town comes of age

Board of Trade took awhile to take root

1914 brought record New Year

1864 dawned with hope of victory

City wasn't born with address system

1800s settlers faced difficult times

Famous watchmaker has local ties

Canal connected city to world

Snow marked 1914 St. Valentine's Day

Neighborhood named for Dr. Shepard

Statue honors notable Ohioans

City's early days had character

Otstot home has place in history

St. Patrick's Day 1914 was great

Columbus grew rapidly in the 1840s

City chose to build with much brick

Early banks fraught with peril

Early hotels were simple affairs

To natives, city was crossrods community

Perils, fever killed early settlers

Galloway was a notable woman

War weariness marked spring 1814

Crowds cheered Grant's arrival

Goodale Park gate built in1899

Bellows dad was local architect

Sullivant fathered sons and city

Early hunters saw deer, wolves

First City Hall a site to behold

July 4 feted even amid Civil War

1835 brought city's first theater

America's road comes to town

Epidemics made 1800s perilous

Lavish parties marked social life

Primitive remedies ruled frontier

Township tales are complicated

Brooks built innovative prison

Starling recalls 1840s Columbus

1840s saw push for education

Newspaper history 'convoluted'

City at forefront of Prohibition

Turnpikes debut in early 1800s

Vice found home in city's Badlands

City had ample woods, wildlife

Rail service linked city to world

Maetzel's designs apan Front Street

WWI didn't dampen Halloween

First prison sat on donated land

Veterans' care born from Civil War

1868 fire destroyed Lunatic Asylum

Food, football part of '14 festivities

Allen fought for Urban League

Inns offered respite, meeting space

City evolved over Lincoln Kilbourn's life

City tree brightened Christmas

Local names rooted in wrangling

Power evolved at State and High

Promise of Prohibition fell short

Mound Builders left local mark

Squirrels ran amok in early 1800s

Stagecoach travel less than idyllic

Cemetery origins tied to Sullivant

Powell had entrepreneurial spirit

As it were: Women worked to help soldiers

As it were: Brent helped forge path to West

As it were: Early floods brought destruction

As it were: Settlers built simple log cabins

As it were: North Liberty drew few settlers

As it were: Jubilation marks Civil War's end

As it were: Throngs pay respects to Lincoln

As it were: Trade was scant in early days

As it were: Davises tusseled with natives

As it were: Voters plied with liquor, speeches

As it were: Business scene bustled in 1830s

As it were: Home for Aged grew from war

As it were: Prairies showcase natural beauty

As it were: July 4, 1915 was celebrated on 5th

As it were: Brick, stone gave way to asphalt

As it were: Kerr struck it rich in gold rush

As It Were: Hoge preached progressive ideas

As It Were: Floods spawned wider Scioto

As it were: Sewers flushed out health threats

As it were: Coaches, streetcars drove COTA

As it were: City's seen many a soggy summer

As it were: Frontier folk were polite, mostly

As it were: City physician fought in Civil War

As it were: Labor Day feted with parade, picnic

As it were: Fieser: Voice of city's early Germans

As it were: Police chief moved on to business