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.*
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This post provided by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER
Contact 614.388.8249
Website: MaureenMcCabe.com
email: MaureenatMaureenMcCabe.com @
Information is deemed to be accurate but should be verified to your satisfaction. Information provided herein is supplied by several sources and is subject to change without notice. Opinions expressed are solely those of Maureen McCabe.
Non Member comments occasionally closed due to heavy spam!
OK you are a day off, you are fogiven lol. So I wonder if the day texting started will ever go down in the history books??
hard to imagine and what a long way we have come. now we can't even leave our office, go to the stre or even bathroom without our phone! what would the oldtimers think of this?
Nice! I found a newspaper from the 1940's in a house that was being renovated. It's amazing how things that are trivial today made front page back then.