Columbus
Details
- Names
Columbus
Franklinton
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on flat till plain at junction of Scioto & Olentangy rivers; planned in 1812 as political center for Ohio General Assembly; grew when National (Cumberland) Road and branch of Ohio and Erie Canal reached here in 1840; damaged by floods in 1913.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Died
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