Worthington Ohio real estate

The Mystery of the Missing Cornerstone

The cornerstone of the Flint School disappeared in March 2011 according to the  Worthington Suburban News, (SNP.)

In "Flint School now just a memory" Bret Liebendorfer of ColumbusLocalNews.com (Suburban Newspapers online) wrote: 

"A memorial was to include the well-known pillars, but they were pushed over by vandals; similarly, the school's 800-pound cornerstone also was to be included, but it was stolen."

800 pounds? 

Worthington area history

The village of Flint was down the road from the village of Worthington, Worthington was itty bitty until the 1950s.  Northern Franklin County was rural.

There is a great photo of the pillars standing in front of the rubble after the Columbus Parks and Recreations crew demolished the old school building on the corner of Flint Road and Park Road in Far North Columbus in the SNP Online story of the old building being torn down.  The article also lends some history I can never remember.  The village of Flint area became part of the Worthington City School District in 1949.  The school was abandoned in 1963.

"According to worthingtonmemories.com and research by Worthington Libraries librarian Meredith Southard, the three-room building was constructed in 1927 after residents of the district voted 113-81 in favor of a bond issue that paid Clara and Ellis Gardner $1,839 for the 3.5-acre site and $30,528 for construction."

There was a time capsule found in the demolition of Flint School according to Liebendorfer.  A Bell Jar with coins and a note.  The note was illegible.

Does that corner stone say 1927?  It looks like it says 1926 to me.   I took this photo in March 2010.

Worthington area history

Slate Hill School 

Flint, Ohio September 1921

Linworth - Another Central Ohio Village, Linworth was annexed to the city of Worthington.

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Flint School is gone. 

The Flint School sat there at the corner of Park and Flint Roads from the 1920s until a few weeks ago.  The school had NOT been used since the 1960s.  I believe since 1963.  On a site called 'Forgotten Ohio on the page about Flint' it says of the Flint School building "The small school building where Flint's children attended class is still standing, neatly boarded up, in a park at the corner of Park Street and Flint Road."

Something about the old school public school building that served the Flint and Sharon Township area reminded me of a shrine.  I believe the cornerstone says 1926.

The Flint School building in March 2010. 

"The small school building where Flint's children attended class is still standing, neatly boarded up, in a park at the corner of Park Street and Flint Road."  from Forgotten Ohio

Not anymore.

The grass will grow this summer and any scars the building and it's demolition left will be gone soon.  The building was razed in March 2011.  The photos of the corner stone, the name over the door and the front of the building were taken in March 2010.  The old school building, that served Flint, Ohio in the past was owned by the City of Columbus and they razed it a few weeks ago. The grounds became a City of Columbus Park a number of years ago.   I drove by the intersection a few times when there was a pile of rubble.  I wish I would have got a photo.   The first time I saw the pile of rubble I was surprised.  It was after dark so I thougt I would come back by and get a photo. 

An earlier Sharon Township School, Slate Hill School on Flint Rd. is now a home.  It has been used as a home for years.  The area in northern Franklin County is mostly annexed to the City of Columbus now.  The area has been part of the Worthington school district for years.   The Worthigton area today,  Flint, Ohio

The Flint train station was relocated to east of Sancus Blvd. at some point.  It is used as a home now.  The brick builiding with the word Flint on it was a department store, Crowders at the railroad stop that was Flint, Ohio.

The Village of Flint and the surrounding area is part of the Far North Columbus area, which includes City of Columbus neighborhoods in Franklin and Delaware Counties. 

Far North Columbus Identity Crisis

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In 1921 Flint Ohio was a little village in Sharon Township that is now mostly annexed into the City of Columbus.  The area south of the Franklin County line is in the Worthington City School District today.

Map -  Flint Ohio is near the intersection of Flint Rd. and Park Rd.   The Flint Carryout just west of the railroad tracks is a sure sign you've found Flint.  The train station that sat in Flint was moved further east long ago and is a residential property.

Today in the Flint Ohio area as all over Central Ohio you'd see  Honda Accords, a Toyota Prius or two, a Ford Fusion or a Focus, a Chevy Malibu... what are contemporary Dodge automobiles?  I am just not a big car person. Don O'Brien is and always was a real car buff.  This is Don O'Brien's father in his new 1921 Dodge on his wedding day:

Don O'Brien wrote about the photo " After a garden wedding 87 years ago at Grandmother and Grandfather Kingery's home near Flint, Ohio they left in Dad's new 1921 Dodge."   The new Mrs. O'Brien was a Kingery?  Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien's wedding date was September 21, 1921 according to their son's Flickr photostream.

Christopher Woods, Seven Oaks, The Village at Forest Ridge (condos)  and The Village at Worthington are some of today's neighborhoods near the Village of Flint Ohio.  There are historic homes on Flint Road that would have been there in 1921 but much of the area was farm fields or ... just land?   I guess there is at least one old house on Park Rd.  too.  There is a private road too... (no trespassing territory.)

I love old photos of Columbus, Worthington, Flint.  Visit Don O'Brien's Flickr photostream to see what Worthington looked like when he was growing up in the 1930s and 1940s.  Worthington was still a village when he was a child. He lived out in the country on Wilson Bridge Road and went to Worthington schools.

More Flint Ohio history:

Slate Hill School - Worthington History  - now a residential property

Worthington area history - the Flint Train Station is now a residential property too

Don O'Brien's photo is licensed with a Creative Commons license.  As always I thank him for a glimpse of the Worthington area in a time gone by and for allowing me to share it with more people.

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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

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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.

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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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