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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8DJ_american-federation-of-labor-united-mine-workers-of-america_Columbus-OH.html
American Federation of LaborSince 1881One this site, December 10, 1886, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Union merged with the trade unionists of the Knights of Labor to create the American Federation of Labor. Delegates elected Samuel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8DH_general-john-hunt-morgan-csa-morgans-escape_Columbus-OH.html
Side A:General John Hunt Morgan, CSAOn this site once stood the Ohio Penitentiary, which was built in 1834 and operated through 1984. Incarcerated here in July 1863 was Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, a cavalry commander known as the "Thunde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8DE_the-irish-in-columbus_Columbus-OH.html
[Marker Front]:Thousands of Irish immigrants came to Columbus to seek personal and religious freedom. With the "Great Hunger" in Ireland and the completion of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the National Road, immigration to Columbus increased in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8D8_the-lane-avenue-bridges_Columbus-OH.html
· In the late 1800's a steel truss was constructed across the Olentangy River at Lane Avenue. Its primary function was to gain access across the Olentangy River from the main campus of The Ohio State University to the agricultural land on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8CP_deaf-school-park_Columbus-OH.html
This ten acre site was purchased in 1829 for the Ohio School for the Education of the Deaf. The first school building opened here in 1834; the school was enlarged in 1845. In 1868 the original school was replaced. Another school building was added…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8CJ_columbus-main-library-judge-noah-swayne-home_Columbus-OH.html
Columbus Main LibraryThe first tax supported free public library in Columbus was formed in 1873 and housed in City Hall. In 1901, City Librarian John Pugh petitioned Andrew Carnegie for funding and was granted $200,000. In 1903, the Swayne home wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8CI_starling-medical-college-and-st-francis-hospital_Columbus-OH.html
This site, now Grant Medical Center, was the original location of the neo-gothic building that housed St. Francis Hospital and Starling Medical College, named for Columbus benefactor Lyne Starling. Established in 1849, Starling Medical College/St.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8B4_monsignor-john-joseph-jessing_Columbus-OH.html
Monsignor John Joseph Jessing, founder of the Pontifical College Josephinum, was born in Germany in 1836. He immigrated to America and, in 1870, was ordained a priest in Columbus. He published a newspaper, the Ohio Waisenfreund (Ohio Orphans' Frie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8B3_ohio-school-for-the-deaf_Columbus-OH.html
The Ohio School for the Deaf was established in 1829 by an act of the Ohio Legislature. Although the fifth school for the deaf in the country, it was the first school to be 100% funded by the state. The school first opened in a small rented buildi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM89G_jesse-owens_Columbus-OH.html
[Marker Front]:James Cleveland Owens was born in Alabama in 1913 and moved with his family to Cleveland at age nine. An elementary school teacher recorded his name "Jesse" when he said "J.C." It became the name he used for the rest of his life. Ow…