Timeline of Columbus, Ohio

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Columbus, Ohio, USA

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

19th century

• 1812
  • Columbus founded.[1]
  • Population: 300.[1]
• 1816
  • Columbus becomes the capitol of Ohio.
  • Jarvis W. Pike elected mayor.[1]
• 1817 - Ohio State Library headquartered in Columbus.[2]
• 1832 - Ohio School for the Deaf established.
• 1831 - Columbus connected to Ohio and Erie Canal.[1]
• 1833 - National Road in operation.[1]
• 1834
  • Columbus chartered as a city.
  • John Brooks becomes mayor.
  • Ohio Penitentiary begins operating.[1]
• 1837 - Ohio State School for the Blind established.[1]
• 1840 - Population: 6,048.[3]
• 1845 - Columbus Public Schools established.
• 1849
  • State Convention of the Colored Citizen held in city.[4]
  • Green Lawn Cemetery established
• 1850
  • Columbus and Xenia Railroad begins operating.[1]
  • Population: 17,882.[3]
• 1851 - Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad begins operating.
• 1853 - Columbus Athenaeum founded.[2]
• 1861 - Ohio State Capitol building completed.[1]
• 1862 - Fort Hayes established.
• 1868
  • St. Mary's of the Springs school opens.[1]
  • Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway in operation.
• 1870
  • The Ohio State University founded
  • Columbus Circulating Library organized.[2]
• 1871 - Daily Dispatch newspaper begins publication.[5]
• 1872 - Public Library & Reading Room established.[2][6]
• 1873 - Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College opens.[1]
• 1875 - Union Station rebuilt.
• 1878 - Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts and Ohio State University Marching Band established.
• 1879 - Columbus Art School and Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery[1] established.
• 1880 - Population: 51,647.[3]
• 1887 - Franklin County Courthouse built.[1]
• 1894 - "Ugly law" approved.[7]
• 1895 - Franklin Park Conservatory opens.
• 1898 - First Neighborhood Guild organized.[8]
• 1899
  • Columbus Citizen newspaper begins publication.[5]
  • Masonic meeting hall built.
• 1900
  • Godman Guild House built.[8]
  • Population: 125,560.[3]

20th century

• 1904 - Governor's Mansion and Franklin County Memorial Hall[1] built.
• 1905 - Indianola Park (amusement park) in business.
• 1906 - Columbus Public Library building constructed.[1]
• 1910 - Streetcar strike.[1]
• 1913 - Flood.[1]
• 1912 - Woman Suffrage Parade.
• 1919 - Spring Street YMCA opens.[9]
• 1920 - Population: 237,031.[3]
• 1922 - Ohio State University's Ohio Stadium built.[1]
• 1927 - American Insurance Union Citadel completed, becoming the fifth largest building in the world at the time.
• 1929 - Battelle Memorial Institute founded.
• 1933 - Ohio State Office Building constructed.[1]
• 1934 - U.S. Post Office and Courthouse built.[1]
• 1936 - White Castle (restaurant) headquartered in city.
• 1940 - Population: 306,087.[3]
• 1947 - National Auto Theatre (drive-in cinema) in business.[10]
• 1952 - Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Security Studies established.
• 1954 - Black Baptist Pastors' Conference organized (approximate date).[11]
• 1955 - Sister city relationship established with Genoa, Italy.[12]
• 1959 - The Columbus Citizen-Journal newspaper in publication.
• 1960 - Population: 471,316.[3]
• 1964
  • Northland Mall in business.
  • Bank One Tower built.
• 1969 - First Wendy's founded by Dave Thomas.
• 1970
  • Columbus Free Press begins publication.
  • Columbus surpasses Cincinnati in population.
• 1974 - Rhodes State Office Tower built.
• 1975 - Columbus Monthly magazine begins publication.
• 1976
  • Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center established.
  • Union Station demolished.
• 1977
  • QUBE television begins broadcasting.
  • One Nationwide Plaza built.
  • Clippers begin playing in Columbus.
• 1978 - Community Development Task Force formed.[13]
• 1980 - Sister city relationship established with Tainan City, Taiwan.[12]
• 1982 - Columbus surpasses Cleveland to become the largest city by population in Ohio.
• 1984
  • Huntington Center built.
  • Ohio Penitentiary closes.
• 1985 - Catco theatre company founded.
• 1987
  • King Arts Complex active.
  • Union Station (Mural) painted.
• 1988
  • Vern Riffe State Office Tower and Three Nationwide Plaza built.
  • Sister city relationships established with Hefei, China; Odense, Denmark; and Seville, Spain.[12]
• 1989 - Columbus City Center (shopping mall) in business.
• 1990
  • The Other Paper begins publication.
  • William Green Building constructed.
  • Population: 632,910.[3]
• 1991
  • City government computer network begins operating.[14]
  • Carriage Place Movies 12 (cinema) in business.[10]
• 1992 - Sister city relationship established with Dresden, Germany.[12]
• 1996
  • Columbus Crew begins play with the newly established Major League Soccer.
  • Sister city relationship established with Herzliya, Israel.[12]
  • Chamber of Commerce city portal online.[15][16]
• 1998 - City government website online (approximate date).[17]
• 1999 - Columbus Crew move to newly built Columbus Crew Stadium, now known as Mapfre Stadium.
• 2000
  • Michael B. Coleman is first elected as mayor.
  • Nationwide Arena opens, hosting the newly founded Columbus Blue Jackets.
  • Population: 711,470.[18]

21st century

• 2001
  • Columbus Underground begins publication.[19]
  • Miranova Condominiums built.
  • Arena Grand cinema[10] and Polaris Fashion Place (shopping mall) in business.
• 2004 - The Northland Mall on Morse Road, which closed in 2002, is demolished to make way for a new commercial development,[20] ultimately to be called Northland Village.
• 2008 - Sister city relationship established with Ahmedabad, India.[12]
• 2009 - Huntington Park opens in the Arena District, replacing Cooper Stadium as the home of Columbus Clippers baseball.
• 2009 - 614 Magazine began
• 2010
  • Population: 787,033.[21]
  • Columbus City Center demolished.
• 2011
  • Columbus Commons (park) opens.
  • Steve Stivers becomes U.S. representative for Ohio's 15th congressional district.[22]
• 2013
  • Population: 822,553.[23]
  • Joyce Beatty becomes U.S. representative for Ohio's 3rd congressional district.
• 2014 - Sister city relationship established with Curitiba, Brazil.[12]
• 2016 - Columbus surpasses Indianapolis to become the second largest city in the Midwest.
• 2018 - Columbus surpasses San Francisco to become the 14th largest city in America.
• 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd protests and riots

See also

• History of Columbus, Ohio
• List of mayors of Columbus, Ohio
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbus, Ohio
• Timeline of Ohio[24][25]

Other cities in Ohio

• Timeline of Cincinnati
• Timeline of Cleveland
• Timeline of Toledo, Ohio

References

1. Federal Writers' Project 1940. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFFederal_Writers'_Project1940 (help)
2. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
3. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
4. "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved May 30, 2015.CS1 maint: others (link)
5. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
6. American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. hdl:2027/mdp.39015013751220.
7. Susan M. Schweik (2010). The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8361-0.
8. Peterson 1965.
9. Nina Mjagkij (1994). Light in the Darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2801-3.
10. "Movie Theaters in Columbus, OH". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
11. Alex-Assensoh 2004.
12. "Greater Columbus Sister Cities International". Retrieved December 30, 2014.
13. Rimmerman 1985.
14. "NII Awards 1995". USA: National Information Infrastructure Awards. Archived from the original on January 1997.
15. "Columbus Supersite". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
16. "Columbus Supersite Makes its Internet Debut", Columbus Dispatch, July 10, 1996
17. "City of Columbus, Ohio". Archived from the original on November 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
18. U.S. Census Bureau, "Mini-Historical Statistics: Population of the Largest 75 Cities: 1900 to 2000" (PDF), Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003
19. "Ohio". CJR's Guide to Online News Startups. New York: Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
20. "Northland Mall demolition to begin". Business First of Columbus. January 23, 2004. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
21. "Columbus (city), Ohio". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on July 10, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
22. "Ohio". Official Congressional Directory. 2011.
23. "The 15 Cities with the Largest Numeric Increase from July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2014. Vintage 2013 Population Estimates
24. Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Chronology", Ohio Guide, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press – via Google Books
25. "Timeline of Ohio History". Ohio History Central. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio History Connection.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

1840s-1860s

• Warren Jenkins (1841), "Columbus", Ohio Gazetteer, Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting
• Columbus Directory. John R. Armstrong, 1843.
• John Seibert (1848). Directory of the City of Columbus ... containing a brief history.
• Columbus Directory. Glover and Henderson, 1855.
• C.A. Poland (ed.). Poland's Columbus Directory. Columbus. c. 1864- .
• Williams & Co. (ed.). Williams's Columbus Directory. Columbus. c. 1867- .1883 ed.

1870s-1890s

• Columbus Directory. Columbus, Ohio: R.C. Hellrigle & Co. c. 1871- . 1873 ed., 1877 ed.
• Bailey's Columbus Directory. Columbus: Directory Publishing Co. c. 1872- .
• Columbus, Ohio: its history, resources, and progress. Columbus, Ohio: J.H. Studer. 1873.
• Columbus City Directory. Columbus, OH: G.J. Brand & Co. c. 1879- .
• Columbus Directory. J. Wiggins & Co., 1884-1888.
• Alfred Emory Lee, ed. (1892). History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio. New York: Munsell & Co.
• Columbus, Ohio, 1900, Columbus Railway Company, 1900, OCLC 4747615, OL 6988717M

Published in 20th century

• Columbus City Directory. R.L. Polk & Company. c. 1901- .
• "Columbus", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Roderick Duncan McKenzie (1921–1922), "The Neighborhood: A Study of Local Life in the City of Columbus, Ohio", American Journal of Sociology part 2, part 3
• Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Columbus", Ohio Guide, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press – via Open Library
• J. S. Himes, Jr. (1942), "Forty Years of Negro Life in Columbus, Ohio", Journal of Negro History, 27 (2): 133–154, doi:10.2307/2714730, JSTOR 2714730
• James E. Wert (1956), "Small Business Promoters--A Case Study of Columbus, Ohio", Journal of Industrial Economics, 5 (1): 44–50, doi:10.2307/2097513, JSTOR 2097513
• Henry L. Hunker, Industrial Evolution of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus: Bureau of Business Research, College of Commerce and Administration, Ohio State University, 1958)
• Jon A. Peterson (1965), "From Social Settlement to Social Agency: Settlement Work in Columbus, Ohio, 1898-1958", Social Service Review, 39 (2): 191–208, doi:10.1086/641739, JSTOR 30017591
• Columbus, America's Crossroads. Betty Garrett and Edward R. Lentz. Tulsa: Continental Heritage Press, 1980. ISBN 0932986102
• Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Columbus, OH", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
• Craig Rimmerman (1985), "Citizen Participation and Policy Implementation in the Columbus, Ohio CDBG Program", Public Administration Quarterly, 9 (3): 328–341, JSTOR 40861102
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Columbus, Ohio", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO – via Open Library

Published in 21st century

• Ed Lentz (2003). Columbus: The Story of a City. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-2429-0.
• Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh (2004), "Taking the Sanctuary to the Streets: Religion, Race, and Community Development in Columbus, Ohio", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 594: 79–91, doi:10.1177/0002716204264781, JSTOR 4127695
• James Fallows and Deborah Fallows (ed.), "City Makers: American Futures", The Atlantic (series of articles about Columbus, OH), 2014-

External links

• Columbus Metro Library. Local History
• "Columbus, Ohio". Ohio History Central. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio History Connection.
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Columbus, Ohio, various dates