Worthington Ohio real estate

A photo of W. Wilson Bridge Rd. in Worthington in 1937...

A photo of W. Wilson Bridge Road in Sharon Township in 1937. As Don O'Brien who took the photo of his friend and his brother says at the time, W. Wilson Bridge was not in the Worthington Corporation at the time... it was years before the area was annexed to the city of Worthington. I am guessing the mailing address for W. Wilson Bridge at the time would have been Worthington, Ohio? 

The photo is of course, not of W. Wilson Bridge Road!  The photo was taken in 1937 of his friend, his brother and the O'Brien family's dog "Chink."  W. Wilson Bridge Rd., a country road with telephone lines is just the back drop. 

Worthington including Old Worthington is the back drop for a lot of Don O'Brien's photos.  It is funny how many of his photos were of the cars on High Street. What a boy!  He went to school in Worthington.  If you look at his present day photos on Flickr many of Don O'Brien's photos are of old cars. 

Wilson Bridge Road, Worthington, Ohio 43085

Worthington: Wilson Bridge Corridor

Worthington Mall - The Shops at Worthington Place

The Shops at Worthington Place: Ground Breaking News

When Worthington's Wilson Bridge Moved

More photos from Don O'Brien (dok1 on Flickr.com) on Worthington Old and News

Worthington, Ohio: December 8, 1941 (the day after Pearl Harbor)

Wilson Bridge  - another photo of "Chink" the O'Brien family dog

Worthington Schools  - another view of W. Wilson Bridge Road

W. Wilson Bridge Road - Worthington history

Photo Credit photo is part of Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream - Dok1.  Don O'Brien has shared a number of photos of the Worthington area from the 1920s on, on his Flickr photostream.  This photo is licensed with a Creative Commons license which allows commercial use.  Visit Mr. O'Brien's Flickr photostream for a unique view of Worthington in the past. He started out shooting photos very young, became a professional photographer so some of his photos were taken for the Worthington News, the newspaper of the time, or for other Worthington businesses. 

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Worthington, Ohio October 24, 1938  - corn husking

 A photo from a farm on the east side of Worthington in 1938.  Don O'Brien (Dok1 on Flickr) took the photo at a corn husking. This photo is of the starting gun at the corn husking.

Mr. O'Brien identifies the event as taking place at the Walter Williams farm on Galena Road at the juncture with E. Wilson Bridge Road.

A map of that area today:

Map - the intersection of Worthington Galena and E. Wilson Bridge Road today.  It is not rural now.  There are businesses on the north-side of E. Wilson Bridge Road backing to 270 now. Wonder if there was a Huntley Road back in 1938?  Now east of the junction of Worthington Galena Road and E. Wilson Bridge is the Budweiser brewery.  The Wilson Bridge Corridor in  Worthington Ohio is just south of 270. 

It's been a number of years since there'd be a corn husking in the Worthington area.

The photo is of girls selling candy at the corn husking.  Five cents for a candy bar?

Recycling is good? Worthington - October 24, 1938  The same photos in a post in 2009 about the same corn husking.  I believe Don O'Brien has at least one more photo of the day.   He has lots of photos from the 1930s and 1940s Worthington, it's worth a visit to his Flickr photostream. Don O'Brien (dok1)  grew up on W. Wilson Bridge Road. There is lots of Worthington history on his Flickr photostream. Many of Don O'Brien's photos are licensed with a Creative Commons license which allows commercial use.

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According to a joint project  by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, called Chronicaling America the first volume of the Western Intelligencer, the first volume of the Worthington Ohio based newspaper was published July 17, 1811. 

The Western Intelligencer was published as a weekly newspaper from 1811 to 1817.  James Kilbourne was the publisher of the Western Intelligencer, Franklin County's first newspaper.

The Worthington Historical Society

Follow the Worthington Historical Society on Facebook.

I believe The Western Intelligencer was published in the Kilbourne's building at 681 High St. in Worthington pictured.

Worthington in Franklin County Ohio - 200 +/-  years 

Worthington Ohio, a New England Village 

Worthington - National Historic District

Old Worthington real estate office - 2011

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The Village of Worthington, Ohio - the history of water...

Early settlers would have used the Olentangy River water?  Then the individual properties would have had wells?

According to the timeline on Worthington Memory, June 25, 1912 Worthington, Ohio got public water. Or a decision was made that day to provide public water to residents of the village of Worthington. That's  99 years ago today!

A Worthington water tower.... later.

The photo of High Street in Worthington, Ohio is years later, 1948. 

I believe I remember a photo of water towers on Dublin Granville Road at some point.  Where the swimming pools are?  Near Thomas Worthington?  Later than this 1948 water tower?

The timeline says of June 25, 1912:  "Worthington Council passes resolution to install a public water works and water becomes available throughout the village the next year. "

A comment on Dok1's Flickr photostream about this photo said high school seniors painted their year on the water tower in the 1950s.  If they could get away with it.

Worthington Businesses 1948

High St. Worthington, Ohio 1939

The Kroger in Worthington

Image credit, the photos is part of Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream - Dok1.   He grew up in the Worthington area and has some great photos of Worthington. This one is licensed with a Creative Commons license.

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Old Worthington Businesses in the 1940's?

The photo is compliments of Dok1 on Flickr, Don O'Brien.  Don O'Brien grew up in the Worthington area and photographed the streets of Worthington, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s.  The businesses are car dealerships and a gas station?  Looks like there was a car wash... maybe  "service station."

Don O'Brien wrote about the photo on Flickr:

"The view is of the east side of High Street (US23) just north of New England. Clark Chevrolet is at the left and Worthington Motor Sales in the center."

He identifies the photo as 1949 and says he took it for a geography class at OSU.

Old Worthington Businesses today...

I think from Don O'Brien's description Clark Chevrolet is Graeter's today....  This photo of the north east corner of High Street and New England Avenue would be where House Wine is now.... and other Worthington businesses including Rivage Atlantique, the new restaurant in Worthington.

Across the street on the west side of High St. today, the Blue Frost Cupcake  opened on High St. in late 2010. Formerly 'Fine Lines' a stationary store  and long ago a general store? In 2009 I wrote:

 "Fine Lines' is at 657 High Street in Worthington, in Old... Olde Worthington. The story goes the building on High Street just north of the Worthington Inn was built in 1890 as a general store."  Or is that just a ghost story?  There are some newer buildings mixed in among the true old buildings.

New businesses in Old Worthington - Future

Real Living HER Worthington is moving to the Kilbourne Commercial Building. Real Living HER is moving downtown... Most recently housing The Curio Cabinet, the building known as the Kilbourne Commercial Building has been many things before.  The Kilbourne Commercial Building was Corbin's Funeral Home.   It was an inn or tavern in stage coach days.  It was a residence.   A surveyors office, James Kilbourne, founder of Worthington was a surveyor.

The south end of the Kilbourne Commercial Building is going to be an "oil" business.  My source for "what's going on in Worthington?" assures me that it is not a Jiffy Lube going in next door to Real Living HER, Ohio's oldest continually used commercial building.  I read someplace that is the claim to fame for the Kilbourne Commercial Building.  

Peacock Lane Home opened in the building that was Connells Maple Lee Flowers...  Maple Lee before that... we visited a week ago Saturday.

Further south... south of South Street, the restaurant that was Guido's then something else... combination of the words Clintonville or Beechwold and Worthington? On High St. just south of W. Selby.  The building had been a Thai or other Asian restaurant in the early 90s... I asked what was going there recently and was told it was going to be shops. 

Don O'Brien Dok1 on Flickr's photo is shared with a Creative Commons license which allows me to use this photo here. Visit his Flickr photo stream for lots of old photos of the Worthington area intermixed with photos of his other interests and travels.

A Moving Experience - Real Living HER Worthington

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Worthington, Ohio to Columbus: "Can you hear me now?"  - May 23, 1881. That's 130 years ago*.

"Telephone communications between Worthington and Columbus were completed Saturday, May 23, 1881. "

According to page 16 in  "An Historical Sketch of Worthington, 1803-1953" a "Worthington Sesquicentennial Celebration Booklet"  on the Worthington Memory site, telephone communications were completed between Columbus and Worthington in 1881.

Worthington in 1881 was a sleepy little village.

Worthington was still a village in 1953, when Worthington celebrated it's Sesquicentennial.   Colonial Hills was not annexed for a few more years... that's how Worthington grew to a city, since the Colonial Hills neighborhood in Sharon Township had more population than the Village of Worthington did. 

The Old Worthington neighborhood today is what the original Village of Worthington was when it was founded in 1803.

More Worthington History on Worthington Old and News

Darn...  I meant to publish this on May 23, 2011. OK 130 years and a day.*

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The Worthington Historical Society said yesterday was Worthington's Annivesary.

I started to write this post saying  that today was Worthington's Anniversary, then realized the Worthington Historical Society said "Today"  on Facebook yesterday.  I just did not see it until today.

Happy Belated Anniversary Worthington.

Worthington incorporated on March 9, 1835. Worthington was founded in 1803 and incorporated in 1835.

The Worthington Historical Society is on Facebook.

If I am not mistaken Worthington did not become a city until almost 100 years later.  That's on the Worthington Timeline somewhere. The Worthington Historical Society  has a relatively new website.  The link in the first line of this post is to their website with information on the Worthington Historical sites and museums and Worthington history.

On Facebook the Worthington Historical Society also says James Kilbourne was the first mayor of Worthington.

Worthington Happy Anniversary of incorporating... belatedly.

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Christmas Morning in Worthington Ohio 1928

Don O'Brien and his younger brother David on Christmas morning in 1928, in one of black and white photos he shares on Flickr.   Actually their house on W. Wilson Bridge Road was north of Worthington.  The house at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd. was out in the country north of the Village of Worthington in the 1920s. The Village of Worthington, what is now called "Old Worthington" was from North St. to South St. and Morning St. to Evening St., West Wilson Bridge Rd. was way out in the country in Sharon Township.  In the 1930s at least W. Wilson Bridge Road was in the Worthington school district of the time, there was a Sharon Township school district too.

On his Flickr page on this and another Christmas 1928 photo, Mr. O'Brien describes the flash powder used to take the indoor photos.  They had to open the windows to clear the smoke after the photos were taken.

Look at those toys!  I tried last year to find something on Delko Dumper or Delko Wagons but was not able to.  See the Tinker Toy container on the right?

Another Christmas Morning with the O'Brien family?  Christmas Morning 1935 - Don O'Brien got his first camera. This photo is "All Rights Reserved" it is one of my favorites on Flickr.  Don O'Brien has a great collection of his own photos of Worthington Ohio from the 1930s and 1940s.

Christmas in Worthington Ohio 1928 - Winter is colorful, after all

I wondered if there was snow on the ground on Christmas morning 1928.  From his father's diary describing their Sharon Township Property at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd.:

"Wandering around outdoors in the bright, snappy air this afternoon, I looked at the Euonymus patens or spreading euonymus, the Viburnum rhytididiphyllum and the Oregon hollygrape, each green in the shrub border. Berries still cling to the highbush cranberry, some of the cotoneasters and the barberry. Many of the rock garden plants not yet covered were still green and fresh. Winter is colorful, after all."

just  part of a commment that Mr. O'Brien (Dok1 on Flickr) added last year to the photo of him and his brother on Christmas 1928.  O'Brien's father wrote a column for Better Homes and Gardens magazine and wrote extensively for Country Gentleman, a magazine for farmers.  The father's diary tells about Christmas Eve preparation for Donald and David's Christmas morning, what he got for Christmas 1928 and about a walk outside, "Winter is colorful, after all."    The photo of the O'Brien brothers in front of their Christmas tree in 1928 is linked to the photo, so you can read more of what Don O'Brien shares from his father's diary.

Wilson Bridge 1936 or 1937

Worthington School Bus 1938

The Christmas Morning 1928 photo is part of Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream - Dok1.  Just today Mr. O'Brien  added to Flickr a photo of himself on Christmas 1933, with his main gift, a desk.  A few days ago he shared a card his mother made for Christmas 1930.  The photo of Christmas Morning 1928 is licensed with a Creative Commons license which allows me to use it here.

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St. Johns Episcopal Church, Worthington Ohio

St. Johns Episcopal Church bell first rang on December 24, 1933 according to a 1960s  Worthington Chamber Booklet on Flickr.  In 1933 the first church in Worthington got a bell, finally.  Or was it a replacement for an earlier bell?  The Worthington church already had a long past by 1933 when it got a bell:   

"On February 6, 1804, the Articles of Agreement establishing St. John's Church of Worthington were executed" 

From the Timeline on the Worthington Memory Site.

Worthington was established in 1803.

Life in 1933 

1933  was the Great Depression

1933 Hitler came to power in Germany

1933 Prohibition ended in the United States, I believe in December

1933 FDR became the United States President

Life in Worthington Ohio in 1933

Worthington would have been a little village out in the county... not a suburb of Columbus Ohio.  Columbus would have been small too. Worthington would have been what we call "Old Worthington" now. 

There would be no Colonial Hills, no Wilson Hill neighborhood, certainly no Worthington Estates. Olentangy Hills and Worthingway.  No Wilson Bridge Rd. corridor with a shopping mall and office buildings. 

In 1933 the area surrounding Worthington would be rural.  There'd be farms everywhere.  Cornfields? Other nearby villages would be Linworth or was it Elmwood Station in the 1930s? Also Flint.  Further away Dublin and Powell would still be villages for many years to come.

The photos the front and back of St. John's Episcopal Church on December 24, 2010.

Old Worthington

Worthington Christmas Eve 1941

Happy Birthday St. John's Episcopal

Worthington St. Johns Episcopal Church

An October Worthington Wedding  -  October 1948

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Worthington Ohio Christmas Eve 1941

Worthington school students caroling on Christmas Eve 1941.  

This is one of Don O'Brien's Worthington photos from his Flickr photostream.  I am sharing this photo today December 7, 2010 because of a comment left on it...  a couple of months ago.  I keep thinking of the comment left by Toureasy47201 on Mr. O'Brien's photo:

"I wonder what thoughts they had, this being a little over two weeks after Pearl Harbor had been attacked."

The description of the photo says the carolers were on W. Stafford Avenue, Worthington Ohio at the Worthington Presbyterian minister's house.

Worthington Ohio History - 1941

Worthington Ohio Pearl Harbor Day

Worthington News - Pearl Harbor Attack

Home Market Worthington Ohio

Visit Don O'Brien's Flickr photostream for photos from the 1930 and 1940's in his hometown, Worthington Ohio. This particular photo is licensed with a Creative Commons license.  Don O'Brien shares photos on Flickr as Dok1. He lives in southern Ohio and still takes a lot of photographs there and in his travels.

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