Tales of Old Columbus
History & stories of a great American city
Salvatore felt the pull early in life to make his way to America, despite growing up an ocean away. After...
“The 250th gives us all this once-in-a-generation opportunity to lean into this thing we continue to...
Phale Hale was introduced to an 18-year-old southern beauty named Cleo Ingram by a friend at Spelman...
“Ben was everybody’s next-door neighbor who leaned over the back fence to tell us the latest in our Columbus...
Legendary football coach Dick Walker led Bishop Watterson High School to its first state championship...
Things happen in our lives that some people would try to explain away as a coincidence. Feeling divinity...
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;