Worthington real estate

The Village of Flint in northern Franklin County has been annexed to the City of Columbus for some time.  Or perhaps there are still unincorporated areas along Flint Rd. and Park Rd. mixed in among the City of Columbus neighborhoods in the area: 

• The Village at Worthington
• The Village at Forest Ridge
• Christopher Woods
• The Sanctuary

Maybe The Sanctuary is NOT really part of what was Flint, but doesn't it back up to the Flint Cemetery? I don't think of neighborhoods like The Sanctuary, Seven Oaks,  or Worthington Highland being Flint.  To me Flint is the intersection of Flint Road and Park Rd. and the streets,  West St., Station St., Oak St.  but I am sure homes in the surrounding area had Flint Ohio mailing addresses before the area became part of the Columbus and Worthington mailing addresses.

Homes for sale in Flint area neighborhoods - Search

Worthington area - Flint

Worthington area history

Slate Hill School

The area that was formerly the Village of Flint is # 17 of '365 Places to Live in Columbus' a page on Facebook and ColumbusBestBlog.com

If you use link for homes for sale in Flint area neighborhoods above you will search the online inventory of homes on the Real Living HER site. You will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service) in real time. You can know the true status of the properties you are interested in.

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.

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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