Worthington real estate

Home Market - Worthington Ohio  - 1941 

The photo is from March 1941, it was Lent...  look up to the right of the shop keepers head. "Birds Eye, Lenten Double Values, Haddock..." 

Home Market was a grocery store on High Street in Worthington. In a 1964 Worthington Chamber publication on Flickr an ad for Home Market gave the address as 660 High St. Worthington.   

660 High St. Worthington Ohio is  Scotties!

Worthington Memory a project of the Worthington Historical Society also tells me that the Home Market is the building which was Scottie Mac Beans for years,  now Scotties Coffee and Teas.

The photo is from Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream.  O'Brien grew up on W.Wilson Bridge Rd in the 1930's and 1940's and has a great collection of Worthington photos.  O'Brien identifies the proprietor of the Home Market as Clyde Bachelor.  The Home Market photo is part of O'Brien's Worthington Business series on Flickr,

Home Market Ad - 1940

Worthington Streets- the business district

A 1980 Worthington Memorial Day Parade Photo on the Worthington Memory site says Home Market is in the background.  1980?  Really?  It is hard to believe a grocery store like that could have survived that long.  In the era when Don O Brien grew up there was a Kroger and an A and P right across the street on High Street in Old Worthington.

Image credit :   http://www.flickr.com/photos/dok1/ / CC BY 2.0

Worthington Ohio  1936 -1937

An abstract photo of a boy and his dog from the 1930s in Worthington Ohio is one of my favorites on Flickr.  It's another photo from Don O'Brien who shares photos on Flickr from his life growing up near Worthington in the 1930s and 1940s.  O'Briens shadow is there on the frozen Olentangy River, along with the reflection of Wilson Bridge.  In the description of the shot he says:  "Chink, the best dog I've ever known, crossing the Olentangy on ice during the winter of 1936-37"

When I drive across the bridge over the Olentangy river on Wilson Bridge Road I don't think of the present day bridge being "Wilson Bridge."    I think of it being a bridge on Wilson Bridge Road.  The bridge was relocated I believe. 

In fact on Worthington Memory (Worthington Historical Society) they have another one of O'Briens photos of the bridge from the 1930s and he says there  "This iron bridge replaced the wooden covered bridge over the Olentangy River at Wilson Bridge Road, which was washed away in 1911. The iron bridge was demolished during the construction of I-270 in the late 1960s."

Worthington Memory has photos of earlier versions of the covered bridge and says "The plot of land on the north side of Wilson Bridge Road was owned by William S. Wilson in 1910.

My favorite photo of Wilson Bridge is the reflection of the bridge with O'Brien on it as he looks down at Chink, his dog.

Worthington Ohio history in photos

Old Worthington really

The Kroger Grocery Store in Worthington   Old Worthington, High Street in 1939

Glee

Image credit and license   http://www.flickr.com/photos/dok1/ / CC BY 2.0 

Worthington Schools a bus on W. Wilson Bridge Rd. Don O'Brien  (Dok1 on Flickr)  calls his photo  "School Bus on Snow-covered Road  (1938)"

Mr. O'Brien who grew up in the Worthington area says  "I don't recall our school having any "snow days". The bus is a 1937 Dodge that replaced the 1929 Ford."

Wilson Bridge Road was north of Worthington in the 1930's. It was an unincorporated area in Sharon Township in the 1930s and after.    On another Worthington photo with a bus on Flickr, Don O'Brien says the Methodist Childrens Home was in the country north of Worthington.  Worthington did not grow much from 1803 to ???  the 1950s?  

130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd. -  Map today.

There is a discussion and another photo on the Flickr  photo showing what is at 130 W. Wilson Bridge today. 

More Old Worthington - not real old but older...  

When Worthington's W. Wilson Bridge Rd. moved

W. Wilson Bridge Road - Worthington history

Worthington Schools

Worthington History - Slate Hill Schools  - this was Sharon Township schools

Glee

Image Credit: Don O'Brien shared this photo with a Creative Commons license.  Visit his Flickr Photostream for lots of wonderful Worthington images   http://www.flickr.com/photos/dok1/ / CC BY 2.0

Worthington History - Slate Hill School was not the elementary school at 7625 Alta View Blvd. or even an earlier building on that site.  Slate Hill Elementary in the 1920's was on Flint Road, in the community of Flint, not City of Worthington.... nor City of Columbus.

The house that used to be the school housed grades one through eight is on the page with the picture of the Slate Hill school children from long ago.   A picture of the former school house from 2008 on Don O'Brien's Flickr photo stream.   The school is now a private home.  According to Worthington Memory the property on the west side of Flint Road's been used as a home since  1947.

O'Brien says of the photo of the school children:

"Grades 1 through 8 at the Slate Hill School in Flint, Ohio. I'm guessing at the 1920's date. Can anyone pinpoint the year more accurately?"

In the original size you can see the children and teachers faces better. 

Slate Hill School started as a one room log cabin according to the history of Slate Hill School on Worthington Memory. The school which is now a house was a two room school house built about  1870. 

According to Worthington Memory the Flint School was built in 1924 (or 1926... It says one, one place...lets just say  mid 1920's. ) Flint School  on Park Road (still standing but not used as a school since the 1960's had different grades in different rooms, each grade did not get it's own room.

Today some of the area is still in Sharon Township but many of the neighborhoods are in the City of Columbus and the Worthington City School District.

Worthington history - Flint Ohio

Worthington Schools  - Slate Hill Elementary School 7625 Alta View Boulevard Worthington OH 43085

Worthington Area History - the Flint Train Station (it's been moved from the original site)

Worthington Area  - Flint

 Photo Credit from Don O'Brien's Flickr photostream licensed licensed with a Creative Commons license.

Worthington, Ohio: 1939 is another of the historic photos in Don O'Brien's  Flickr Photostream. 

The car is a 1939 Packard ambulance according to O'Brien's notes. The owner according to O'Brien was S. E. Corbin and Son Funeral Directors, so it is a hearse?  Ambulance and hearse were the same thing?

In the background you can see the Worthington Village Green, St. John's Episcopal Church and an little bit of the Kilbourne Building which would have been the Worthington Library in 1939.

I'd assume Don took the photo in early December.  No snow.  A picture across the Worthington Green would be white today in 2009, but the snow came after Christmas Day.

Worthington, Ohio history

Don O'Brien's Flikr Photostream is a great place to see Worthington Ohio in the 1930 and 1940's (link below.)   This picture was taken in December 1939 for a full page advertisement for the funeral home in the Worthington News.

More about Worthington, Ohio history:

Worthington, Ohio history

Old Worthington the Old Worthington neighborhood today was the original Village of Worthington which was settled in 1803.  The Village had not grown much (at all?)  by the time Don O'Brien was growing up in the Worthington area in the 1930's and 1940's.

Image credit and creative commons license 

Worthington area history - Flint Ohio

This property is NOT for sale.  This is strictly about the homes history.

The area known as Flint in Ohio was a village north of the Village of Worthington, both villages were in Sharon Township.  

The Park Road area and the area which was Flint  are part of the Worthington City School District.

According to Worthington Memory the former Flint Train Station  was moved from the railroad tracks on Park Road in the 200 block almost to Worthington Galena Road.  Worthington Memory gives the address of the house  as 525 Park Road.

I have known this house for years, I never knew it was the former Flint Train Station though, when I saw the picture of it on the Worthington Memory site I recognized it right away. The picture (link above) of the Former Flint Train Station on  the Worthington Memory site is so much better than mine, here... 

Sadly the auditors photo of the former Flint Train Station is better than mine.  That is really sad. 

Worthington area history - Flint

The Worthington Memory project's exteded information about the property says of the former Flint Train Station: 

"It is the former Flint Train station, built around 1870-1880. It was moved from its original site by the tracks in the early 1930's to what was then the McElvane Orchards."

The auditors site says the house was built in 1920.  Records are kind of garbled.  Transfers only go back to earlier this decade (2001...) and the address has changed.  More than once? Twice since the late 1990's?  This property and the house east of it were both on large lots. The land was developed into a neighborhood earlier this decade.  The numbers on the houses on Park Road may have been changed because of the new houses in the Worthington Trace subdivision.                 

NOT for sale

NOTE: the former Flint Train Station is not for sale. It is owned by the developer.

Was there an address change?  The home which is owned by a real estate developer was in the MLS

Address: 575 PARK RD (1999 and 2001 on the market)

Address: 533 PARK RD  2002 on the market

I saw the former Flint Train Station when it was on the market in 2002.  I did not have a clue about it's history at the time.  The Worthington Memory site says there is still a ticket window in back (I wonder if the back is between the house and the garage.)    I don't remember a ticket window but I remember the house  was different but I did NOT see that it was a former train station.    I can see it now.  A little country train station.   I can see that it was a train startion more from the side now.  I can see it in the  shape of the roof line.  I can see the train station in the eaves. 

I think there is a one story addition on the back which is not original.  I am not sure the front porch is original to the former Flint Train Station either.   The long building would have been parallel to the train tracks in Flint I believe.

More about Worthington area history and the Far North Columbus area

Worthington area Flint

Far North Colubus Identity Crisis

Columbus Far North Area

Flint was a little "village" north of the little village called Worthington. 

The 'Top of the Flint' (the Pub... upstairs?)  at 225 Park Rd. Columbus Ohio 43235  is a place of legend... 

The Flint Carryout is there just west of the railroad track.  I never really thought of Flint having been a train station, or pondered why it says FLINT on the front of the building.  Or a post office but I am sure it was.  Most of the land around it would have been farm land before much of the land in the Far North Columbus area (outside 270) was annexed to the City of Columbus.

Train Station Building?

The building that houses the Flint Carryout does not have that old fashioned train station look.  It is a big two story brick building.

The ForgottenOH.com entry on Flint has it's own pictures of the building at 225 Park Road Columbus, OH 43235 and says:

"One of the old train station buildings, pictured above, still stands alongside the tracks. It's the most identifiable remaining piece of Flint for the simple reason that the name of the town is written across it. As you can see, it's spelled out in white block letters in the bricks of the street-facing wall."

but then ForgottenOH.com says:

"According to an e-mail I got, this building dates back only to the 1960s, and was at one time home to a store called Crowner's."

Forgotten.com is NOT a blog, can't leave comments, that is why someone emailed the writer.

Wrong.. not the part about Crowners, I had never heard of Crowners... so I can not contest that but the part about the  Flint  building dating back to only the 1960s.  I had to look that up.  According to the Franklin County Auditor the building was built in 1890 and remodeled  in 1945. 

The Crowners owned the building from 1920 into the 1970s according to the Franklin County Auditors records.

The building at 225 Park Road Columbus, OH 43235, just east of Flint Road never looked like a 1960's building to me.  I first saw the Flint Carryout back in 1989, if it was the Flint Carryout then... I remember distinctly being lost in the area and trying to find my way back to Worthington.  The brick building looked like an old building then.  Older than 30 years old.

1960?

Or is ForgottenOH.com saying the old building has only been the Flint Carryout since the 1960's?  That I'll buy... but that would be amazing.

Or the Pub upstairs is from 1960?

Even more amazing I have never been inside.  Well to me anyway... I don't expect you to be amazed by that... this is not about me.

I did not go in today.

Worthington Historical Society

The Worthington Historical Society has some information about the Flint area. Flint is an interesting area.  A couple of the houses on Flint Road have interesting backgrounds.

Much of the surrounding area has been annexed into the City of Columbus today.  The Village at Worthington subdivision is in the City of Columbus, as is Christopher Woods.  The Sanctuary which you enter from Route 23 but backs up to the ravines west of Flint Road is in the City of Columbus.     There's still some unincorporated (Sharon Township)  there too.  The Flint Ridge Terrace neighborhood is in Sharon Township. The whole lot is in the Worthington City School District.

P.S. I found the old Flint train station.  Right under my nose. The Worthington Memory site is full of answers. It says the building pictured here is even older than 1890.  I wonder if the original building was razed and this "modern" building replaced it in 1890.

Flint - the Worthington area today

184 Cameron Ridge Dr. Columbus OH 43235 - Village of Forest Ridge Condo open Sunday, December 20, 2009

Village at Worthington a City of Columbus neighborhood Worthington Schools

Columbus OH 43235 the Flint area is part of the 43235 ZIP code today.  The very eastern edge of the ZIP code north of 270.

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A photo taken for the Worthington News by Don O'Brien who grew up north of Worthington. He lived on W. Wilson Bridge Road which was out in the country in the 1930s, and 1940's.

O'Brien was a senior at Worthington High School in December 1941, when he took the photo he labeled "After the Pearl Harbor Attack. "  A recent addition to O'Brien's Flickr Photostream he says of the photo:

"These are the first enlistees from the Worthington, Ohio area being sworn into the Navy. I photographed this event for the Worthington News."

Anyone recognize a father, grandfather, great -grandfather as a young man from the Worthington area who went off to World War II?

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Worthington's  W. Wilson Bridge Rd. moved?

"1967 I-270 and Rt 23 interchange, looking north" Clicking on the photo will take you to the photo on Flickr. 1967-xx-xx I-270 and Rt 23 interchange, looking north

Wilson Bridge Road is the two squares south of the 270 interchange.  Route 23 (High Street)  runs straight down the middle.

W. Wilson Bridge Rd. was moved south?   In reading 'Worthington Neighborhoods' when it came to reading the chapters about the Worthington Estates and Olentangy Hills neighborhoods and the resistance of residents to shopping malls  I understood that W. Wilson Bridge Rd is not exactly where it used to be...  or part of the road was rerouted to make what's now  called Worthington Square Mall north of Wilson Bridge Road.

Worthington Plaza as it was known according to 'Worthington Neighborhoods' was less undesirable to homeowners in Worthington Estates and Olentangy Hills than another proposed shopping center because it was developed close to 270 with Wilson Bridge Road redirected to south of the shopping center.

'Worthington Neighborhoods' written by Jennie McCormick was published by the Worthington Historical Society in 2006.  The book deals primarily with residential neighborhoods in the City of Worthington.

The move south of W. Wilson Bridge Rd, made the west square less square?

Wilson Bridge Rd. - Worthington Ohio

W. Wilson Bridge Rd.  Worthington history 

Worthington Estates

Worthington Estates Elementary School

Worthington October 24, 1938  E. Wilson Bridge Rd. was out in the country

The 1967 photo of 23 and 270 showing Wilson Bridge Rd in 1967 was originally uploaded by geocam20000 to Flickr is shared with a creative commons license.

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A photo from 1941 in Worthington Ohio...a radio used to listen to FDR Worthington Ohio Pearl Harbor Day.  I believe the boy on the right is Don O'Brien who grew up in the Worthington area.  Of this photo he says:

"The radio with which I heard about the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941."

The photo is from Don O'Brien's Flickr photo stream (Mr. O'Brien is Dok1 on Flickr) and is captioned:

FDR's Speech for a Declaration of War December 8, 1941

O'Brien has a link on this photo on his Flickr photostream to Roosevelt's speech both a transcript and an audio tape.

O'Briens first  comment on the photo also looks like he scanned a diary page.  His?

It says:

"Astonishing things happened today.  The United States declared war on Japan" the diary snippet goes on.

Another excerpt from the diary on the Dok1 Flickr photostream from December 7, 1941 leads me to believe the first comment on the photo of the boys on December 8, 1941 is from Don O'Brien's father's diary : December 7, 1941

Worthington Ohio Pearl Harbor Day

Don O'Brien was a senior in high school in 1941, at Worthington High* and he was into photography big time.  O'Brien's photostream has some amazing photos from Worthington from that era to view.   O'Brien's family lived on W. Wilson Bridge Rd. which was "out in the country" at the time.

*I get confused... Was the Packard Building (Now the McConnell Arts Center)  the Worthington High School in 1941?  Or was what is now Kilbourne Middle School s Worthington High in 1941?

O'Brien's Flickr photostream entries about Worthington Ohio Pearl Harbor Day and the next day when World War II was declared are just some of O'Brien's photos that show you a slice of life in Worthington back in the 1930's and 1940's. Visit O'Brien's Flickr photostream for more. 

There are great photos of the streets of Worthington, schools, people, and the surrounding area from the 1930's and 1940's in Dok1's Flickr photostream.

Worthington in the 1930's and 1940's:

Glee - In the Packard Building which was the Worthington High School in 1937  Worthington High Glee Club

The Kroger in Worthington - The Kroger grocery store was on High St.  This photo is used with permission.  Many but not all of O'Brien's photos are licensed with a creative commons license.

October 24, 1938   A local event at a farm in "the country" outside Worthington.  The farm was near the intersection of E. Wilson Bridge Road and Worthington Galena Road. 

Worthington Football Friday Night  1941

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