Legg Family
Here are two wonderful pictures of the Legg family. Emma Legg married James Harvey Zinn, born 1 October 1871 Ohio, in 1895. J. Harvey Zinn was the President of the Zinn Lumber Company located at Hudson and North High Streets. Emma and James lived at 285 Kenworth, located on the Olentangy River just north of West North Broadway. (Their house still exists in Clintonville.) [Photos courtesy of John Clark. Thanks also to his wife Lauren for sending them to me.] For more information on the Leggs see here; For more information on the Zinns see here; and/or listen to Robert [...]
The Leggs
This is a reprint of an article by Mary Rodgers, originally appearing in the newsletter of The Clintonville Historical Society. A brief history of Charles T and Sadie M. Legg--long time Clintonville residents--based on The Booster news article dated February 12, 1937, with additions Charlie Legg was born on the Legg farm on April 23, 1871. This farm, a dairy, was located North of Clintonville. The lane leading to the Legg homestead would have been near where Webster Park Avenue is today. Charlie’s mother was Orell E. Webster, daughter of Amazon Webster and a direct descendant of Noah Webster of [...]
Researching Your Address
A fun tip for researching your address, from Clintonville Historical Society's Jeffrey Carter: --Go to the Columbus Library's web site. --Go to Research. --Find Columbus Dispatch. --Put in your library card and pin number. --Enter keyword and search by date. {Shirley suggests: try using your street address in quotes.] Jeffrey says, "I researched my address and found that during prohibition 3 people were arrested for bootlegging at 265 Brevoort!"
Creative Reuse of a Garden House
This little gem was once the garden house at Edgewater, summer home of Harvey and Emma Legg Zinn. (Harvey was founder of the Zinn Lumber Company.) It dates to the 1920s. Zinn's property at the west end of Kenworth was eventually subdivided and several years ago an additional new house was built on the property. During construction of the new house, the builder, Kevin Clausen, used the garden house as an office for the building project (shown here in 2014). Upon the house's completion, the new homeowners, Gary and Kathy Flynn, donated this lovely shed to Clintonville Resource Center (CRC) [...]
Post Office
Clintonville was never platted as a formal village. Alanson Bull, the son of Thomas Bull, sold several small lots to tradesmen for their shops. Located at the northwest corner of High Street and Orchard Lane, a post office opened in 1847, in a two-story frame building on the northwest corner of High Street and Orchard Lane, and was given the name Clintonville because it was located at the center of Clinton Township. (This building has since been torn down.) The postmaster conducted a rag rug business upstairs. High Street at that time was a dirt and plank turnpike connecting Columbus [...]