Discover the history of the first African-American recreation retreat in Columbus and one of the first African-American country clubs in the nation. Big Walnut Country Club was founded in Gahanna in the 1920s. Charlene Brown sits down with Gahanna Mayor Tom Kneeland and Niel Jurist, the city’s public information manager, at Creekside Cafe in Downtown […]
Columbus Metropolitan Library Gahanna Branch, 310 Granville St in 1999.
Jesse Baughman came to Mifflin township in 1805. He became Franklin County Commmissioner in 1851, and in 1853 founded the village of Bridgeport, which became Gahanna on 10/6/1881.