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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB2I_the-underground-railroad-on-university-land_Columbus-OH.html
Joseph Sullivant, a member of the first Board of Trustees of Ohio State, was known as a "friend of the colored race." He grew up in Kentucky but developed a distaste for slavery after witnessing a slave auction. Another Ohio State board member (an…
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After 1856, escapees on the Freedom Train followed Neil Run past the Neil Farm and through the swampy hollow that is now Mirror Lake. The stream forked, with the northeastern branch emerging from the marshy land where the Ohio Union now stands, to…
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Browning AmphitheatreDedicated June 11, 1926 for the encouragement of drama, dance and music. Seating restored October 12 1985.Browning Dramatic SocietyOriginally organized 1882 as The Young Ladies' Literary Society. Founded 1908 as Browning Drama…
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The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College grew out of the Cannon Act of March 22, 1870. "But let it be started," Governor Rutherford B. Hayes told the Legislature in 1873, "with the intention of making it a great State University." The little c…
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Built in 1910, the old Ohio Union was the first student union building constructed on a public university campus and the fourth to be built in the United States. Made possible by a direct appropriation from the 77th Ohio General Assembly and priva…
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/HM88S_general-curtis-e-lemay_Columbus-OH.html
[Marker Front]:A primary architect of American air power, Curtis Emerson LeMay was born in Columbus in 1906, attended public schools, and graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in civil engineering. He received his flight training …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88Q_the-king-avenue-bridge_Columbus-OH.html
· Around 1863 a steel truss was constructed across the Olentangy River at King Avenue. It was the first roadway to be extended across the Olentangy River.
· Although the great flood of 1913 destroyed or damaged numerous bridges, …