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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Great post Maureen. Love the history of Southwest and Central Ohio. Found Central Ohio to be more difficult to trace. Seem to be a lot more records the closer you get to the Ohio River or the Great Lakes.
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