Timeline of Columbus, Ohio

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Columbus, Ohio, USA

19th century

1812
- Columbus founded.^[1]
- Population: 300.^[1]
1816 - Jarvis W. Pike elected mayor.^[1]
1817 - Ohio State Library headquartered in Columbus.^[2]
1831 - Columbus connected to Ohio and Erie Canal.^[1]
1832 - Ohio State School for the Deaf established.^[1]
1833 - National Road in operation.^[1]
1834
- Columbus chartered as a city.
- John Brooks becomes mayor.
- Ohio Penitentiary begins operating.^[1]
1837 - Ohio State School for the Blind established.^[1]
1840 - Population: 6,048.^[3]
1845 - Columbus Public Schools established.
1849 - State Convention of the Colored Citizen held in city.^[4]
1850
- Columbus and Xenia Railroad begins operating.^[1]
- Population: 17,882.^[3]
1851 - Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad begins operating.
1853 - Columbus Athenaeum founded.^[2]
1861 - Ohio State Capitol building completed.^[1]
1862 - Fort Hayes established.
1868
- St. Mary's of the Springs school opens.^[1]
- Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway in operation.
1870 - Columbus Circulating Library organized.^[2]
1871 - Daily Dispatch newspaper begins publication.^[5]
1872 - Public Library & Reading Room established.^[2]^[6]
1873 - Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College opens.^[1]
1875 - Union Station rebuilt.
1878 - Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts and Ohio State University Marching Band established.
1879 - Columbus Art School and Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery^[1] established.
1880 - Population: 51,647.^[3]
1887 - Franklin County Courthouse built.^[1]
1894 - "Ugly law" approved.^[7]
1895 - Franklin Park Conservatory opens.
1898 - First Neighborhood Guild organized.^[8]
1899
- Columbus Citizen newspaper begins publication.^[5]
- Masonic meeting hall built.

20th century

1900
- Godman Guild House built.^[8]
- Population: 125,560.^[3]
1904 - Governor's Mansion and Franklin County Memorial Hall^[1] built.
1905 - Indianola Park (amusement park) in business.
1906 - Columbus Public Library building constructed.^[1]
1910 - Streetcar strike.^[1]
1913 - Flood.^[1]
1919 - Spring Street YMCA opens.^[9]
1920 - Population: 237,031.^[3]
1922 - Ohio State University's Ohio Stadium built.^[1]
1927 - American Insurance Union Citadel built.
1929 - Battelle Memorial Institute founded.
1933 - Ohio State Office Building constructed.^[1]
1934 - U.S. Post Office and Courthouse built.^[1]
1936 - White Castle (restaurant) headquartered in city.
1940 - Population: 306,087.^[3]
1947 - National Auto Theatre (drive-in cinema) in business.^[10]
1952 - Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Security Studies established.
1954 - Black Baptist Pastors' Conference organized (approximate date).^[11]
1955 - Sister city relationship established with Genoa, Italy.^[12]
1959 - The Columbus Citizen-Journal newspaper in publication.
1960 - Population: 471,316.^[3]
1964
- Northland Mall in business.
- Bank One Tower built.
1970 - Columbus Free Press begins publication.
1974 - Rhodes State Office Tower built.
1975 - Columbus Monthly magazine begins publication.
1976 - Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center established.
1977
- QUBE television begins broadcasting.
- One Nationwide Plaza built.
1978 - Community Development Task Force formed.^[13]
1980 - Sister city relationship established with Tainan City, Taiwan.^[12]
1984 - Huntington Center built.
1985 - Catco theatre company founded.
1987
- King Arts Complex active.
- Union Station (Mural) painted.
1988
- Vern Riffe State Office Tower and Three Nationwide Plaza built.
- Sister city relationships established with Hefei, China; Odense, Denmark; and Seville, Spain.^[12]
1989 - Columbus City Center (shopping mall) in business.
1990
- The Other Paper begins publication.
- William Green Building constructed.
- Population: 632,910.^[3]
1991
- City government computer network begins operating.^[14]
- Carriage Place Movies 12 (cinema) in business.^[10]
1992 - Sister city relationship established with Dresden, Germany.^[12]
1996
- Sister city relationship established with Herzliya, Israel.^[12]
- Chamber of Commerce city portal online.^[15]^[16]
1998 - City government website online (approximate date).^[17]^{[chronology citation needed]}

21st century

2000
- Michael B. Coleman is first elected as mayor.
- Population: 711,470.^[18]
2001
- Columbus Underground begins publication.^[19]
- Miranova Condominiums built.
- Arena Grand cinema^[10] and Polaris Fashion Place (shopping mall) in business.
2004 - The Northland Mall on Morse Road, which closed in 2002, is demolished to make way for a new commercial development,^[20] ultimately to be called Northland Village.
2008 - Sister city relationship established with Ahmedabad, India.^[12]
2010 - Population: 787,033.^[21]
2011
- Columbus Commons (park) opens.
- Steve Stivers becomes U.S. representative for Ohio's 15th congressional district.^[22]
2013
- Population: 822,553.^[23]
- Joyce Beatty becomes U.S. representative for Ohio's 3rd congressional district.
2014 - Sister city relationship established with Curitiba, Brazil.^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Federal Writers' Project 1940. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFFederal_Writers'_Project1940 (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
^ "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved May 2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)CS1 maint: others (link)
^ ^a ^b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918.
^ Susan M. Schweik (2010). The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8361-0.
^ ^a ^b Peterson 1965.
^ Nina Mjagkij (1994). Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2801-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Movie Theaters in Columbus, OH". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ Alex-Assensoh 2004.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Greater Columbus Sister Cities International". Retrieved December 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ Rimmerman 1985.
^ "NII Awards 1995". USA: National Information Infrastructure Awards. Archived from the original on January 1997. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)
^ "Columbus Supersite". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)
^ "Columbus Supersite Makes its Internet Debut", Columbus Dispatch, July 10, 1996 – via Columbus Metropolitan Library
^ "City of Columbus, Ohio". Archived from the original on November 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ U.S. Census Bureau, "Mini-Historical Statistics: Population of the Largest 75 Cities: 1900 to 2000" (PDF), Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003
^ "Ohio". CJR's Guide to Online News Startups. New York: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ "Northland Mall demolition to begin". Business First of Columbus. January 23, 2004. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
^ "Columbus (city), Ohio". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ "Ohio". Official Congressional Directory. 2011. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
^ "The 15 Cities with the Largest Numeric Increase from July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2014. Vintage 2013 Population Estimates
^ Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Chronology", Ohio Guide, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press – via Google Books {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
^ "Timeline of Ohio History". Ohio History Central. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio History Connection.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

1840s-1860s

Warren Jenkins (1841), "Columbus", Ohio Gazetteer, Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
Columbus Directory. John R. Armstrong, 1843.
John Seibert (1848). Directory of the City of Columbus ... containing a brief history.
Columbus Directory. Glover and Henderson, 1855.
C.A. Poland (ed.). Poland's Columbus Directory. Columbus. c. 1864- .
Williams & Co. (ed.). Williams's Columbus Directory. Columbus. c. 1867- .1883 ed.

1870s-1890s

Columbus Directory. Columbus, Ohio: R.C. Hellrigle & Co. c. 1871- . 1873 ed., 1877 ed.
Bailey's Columbus Directory. Columbus: Directory Publishing Co. c. 1872- .
Columbus, Ohio: its history, resources, and progress. Columbus, Ohio: J.H. Studer. 1873.
Columbus City Directory. Columbus, OH: G.J. Brand & Co. c. 1879- .
Columbus Directory. J. Wiggins & Co., 1884-1888.
Alfred Emory Lee, ed. (1892). History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio. New York: Munsell & Co.

Published in the 20th century

Columbus, Ohio, 1900, Columbus Railway Company, 1900, OCLC 4747615
Columbus City Directory. R.L. Polk & Company. c. 1901- .
"Columbus", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Roderick Duncan McKenzie (1921–1922), "The Neighborhood: A Study of Local Life in the City of Columbus, Ohio", American Journal of Sociology part 2, part 3
Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Columbus", Ohio Guide, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press – via Open Library {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
J. S. Himes, Jr. (1942), "Forty Years of Negro Life in Columbus, Ohio", Journal of Negro History, 27, JSTOR 2714730
James E. Wert (1956), "Small Business Promoters--A Case Study of Columbus, Ohio", Journal of Industrial Economics, 5, JSTOR 2097513
Henry L. Hunker, Industrial Evolution of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus: Bureau of Business Research, College of Commerce and Administration, Ohio State University, 1958)
Jon A. Peterson (1965), "From Social Settlement to Social Agency: Settlement Work in Columbus, Ohio, 1898-1958", Social Service Review, 39, JSTOR 30017591
Columbus, America's Crossroads. Betty Garrett and Edward R. Lentz. Tulsa: Continental Heritage Press, 1980. ISBN 0932986102
Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Columbus, OH", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
Craig Rimmerman (1985), "Citizen Participation and Policy Implementation in the Columbus, Ohio CDBG Program", Public Administration Quarterly, 9, JSTOR 40861102
George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Columbus, Ohio", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO – via Open Library

Published in the 21st century

Ed Lentz (2003). Columbus: The Story of a City. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-2429-0.
Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh (2004), "Taking the Sanctuary to the Streets: Religion, Race, and Community Development in Columbus, Ohio", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 594, JSTOR 4127695
James Fallows and Deborah Fallows (ed.), "City Makers: American Futures", The Atlantic (series of articles about Columbus, OH), 2014-

External links

Columbus Metro Library. Local History
"Columbus, Ohio". Ohio History Central. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio History Connection.
Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Columbus, Ohio, various dates

Template:Years in Ohio

[FOOTNOTEFederal_Writers'_Project1940-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Federal Writers' Project 1940. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFFederal_Writers'_Project1940 (help)

[davies-2] Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[census1998-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998

[ColoredConventions-4] "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved May 2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)CS1 maint: others (link)

[LOC-5] "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[6] American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918.

[Schweik2010-7] Susan M. Schweik (2010). The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8361-0.

[FOOTNOTEPeterson1965-8] Peterson 1965.

[Mjagkij1994-9] Nina Mjagkij (1994). Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2801-3.

[cinema-10] "Movie Theaters in Columbus, OH". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[FOOTNOTEAlex-Assensoh2004-11] Alex-Assensoh 2004.

[sister-12] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Greater Columbus Sister Cities International". Retrieved December 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[FOOTNOTERimmerman1985-13] Rimmerman 1985.

[14] "NII Awards 1995". USA: National Information Infrastructure Awards. Archived from the original on January 1997. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)

[15] "Columbus Supersite". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)

[16] "Columbus Supersite Makes its Internet Debut", Columbus Dispatch, July 10, 1996 – via Columbus Metropolitan Library

[17] "City of Columbus, Ohio". Archived from the original on November 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[statab2003-18] U.S. Census Bureau, "Mini-Historical Statistics: Population of the Largest 75 Cities: 1900 to 2000" (PDF), Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003

[cjr-19] "Ohio". CJR's Guide to Online News Startups. New York: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[20] "Northland Mall demolition to begin". Business First of Columbus. January 23, 2004. Retrieved 2008-03-02.

[quickfacts2010-21] "Columbus (city), Ohio". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved July 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[22] "Ohio". Official Congressional Directory. 2011. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

[23] "The 15 Cities with the Largest Numeric Increase from July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2014. Vintage 2013 Population Estimates

[24] Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Chronology", Ohio Guide, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press – via Google Books {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

[25] "Timeline of Ohio History". Ohio History Central. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio History Connection.

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