Tales of Old Columbus
History & stories of a great American city
Charlotte Curtis wanted to escape the women’s pages. The newspaper business in the 1960s and 1970s was...
To honor America’s 250th anniversary, My Brother’s Keeper, a bluegrass band out of Cincinnati, decided...
Entering the college football season in 1919, Ohio State sported a 0-13-2 record against the University...
Sixty-year-old resident and local legend Frank Fetch bought a home on Columbus’ heavily German south...
Before retiring earlier this year, the Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan compared the late...
In 2012, Columbus, Ohio turned two hundred years old. Our mayor at the time – Michael Coleman – was friends...
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;