The Ohio Central Normal School was housed in the old Worthington Female Seminary building on the east side of High Street in downtown Worthington, Ohio. The seminary closed in 1857 as students chose to go to the new Ohio Wesleyan Female College in Delaware. The Normal School opened in the 1870’s, a time when the […]
The west side of High Street in Worthington’s downtown business district is shown in this postcard. Taken about 1895, the new interurban tracks and wires are visible in the middle of High Street. The horse was still the favored mode of transportation, as can be seen by the hitching posts with horses and buggies. Contributor: […]
Construction of St. John’s Episcopal Church, located on the southwest quadrant of Worthington’s Village Green probably began in 1827; the first service was held in the church in 1831. The gifted brick mason and church trustee Arora Buttles, who was responsible for Worthington’s finest early brick buildings, almost certainly had a hand in the construction […]
This automobile was built by Worthington’s Howard Lee Griswold (b. 1878) for the president of Columbus Railway, Power and Light Company in the early 1900’s. Howard is seated in the driver’s seat next to his wife, Cora (b. 1884, d. 1949). The invention of the automobile transformed American life. Henry Ford and his famous Model […]