Tales of Old Columbus
History & stories of a great American city
The Park of Roses has been a Columbus jewel since it opened to the public in June 1953. The park’s signature...
Wendy’s old fashioned hamburgers jumped into the ‘Burger Wars’ between McDonald’s and Burger King in...
New York City is America’s #1 television market. It’s nineteen licensed television stations enter 7.4...
While Samuel Prescott Bush was busy working in Columbus in the early twentieth century, his wife Flora...
As you walk through the Jack Nicklaus Museum here in Columbus, Ohio you see pretty much what you expect...
Shortly after being hired in 1893 as history professor at the Ohio State University, Wilbur Henry Siebert...
About Us
Columbus, Ohio has been blessed with a number of people destined for greatness here or who found greatness upon arriving here. Some have changed the world. Some became unquestionably the best in their field. Most exuded undeniable passion while others literally came out of nowhere to achieve greatness. And still others aligned with great mentors early and simply outworked their competition to achieve greatness.
Columbus today is the nation’s fourteenth largest city and third largest state capital. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Columbus did not exist.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, former Ohio governor William McKinley was president; Union Station was a bustling confluence of rail;