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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S7S_mount-vernon-community-school_Columbus-OH.html
Side A Until the 1970s, Pilgrim Elementary school was different from today. Pilgrim had a smaller playground with a brick wall around it. The gym was used only for physical education classes and most students went home for lunch, while others at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHW6_asians-in-the-american-civil-war_Columbus-OH.html
Side A:Despite exclusionary laws preventing U.S. citizenship, Asians served in the Union and Confederate armies and navies during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Many of these soldiers were denied citizenship following their services due to th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBFL_st-clair-hospital_Columbus-OH.html
In 1911 local doctors founded the St. Clair Hospital. The home adjacent to the hospital served as a residence home and training school for nurses. In 1940, the hospital was converted into a convalescent home. In 1948, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Garre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBFK_shiloh-baptist-church_Columbus-OH.html
The Shiloh Baptist Church was completed in 1923. Founded in 1869, Shiloh is the third oldest African-American church in Columbus and is a descendent of the Second Baptist Church. The church is located in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood, which is adjac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBFJ_mount-vernon-avenue_Columbus-OH.html
The commercial area of Mount Vernon Avenue originated in the early 1900s as a safe haven for African-American people segregated from the primarily white community of the time. Not permitted to enter many businesses in downtown Columbus during the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBFI_formerly-maryland-park_Columbus-OH.html
Maryland Park was opened in 1921. It served as the site of the annual Emancipation Day Celebration until 1933. The first Columbus public pool was constructed here in 1929 as the Center of Eastside Social and Recreation Activities. It was home to m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBD0_the-lincoln-theatre_Columbus-OH.html
The Lincoln Theatre, originally known as Ogden Theatre Lodge, opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1929. Developer Al Jackson was spurred to build the theatre because African-Americans were segregated from the other area theatres. Among the bands that ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB7W_second-baptist-church-james-p-poindexter_Columbus-OH.html
Side A: Second Baptist Church - Columbus' Oldest Black Baptist Church, 1836Second Baptist Church cordially received its independence as a mission church from the First Baptist Church on January 7, 1836. Rev. Ezekiel Fields was chosen as pastor fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB2P_war-it-is-all-hell_Columbus-OH.html
General William Tecumseh Sherman made this now famous statement on August 11, 1880, in a speech at a reunion of Civil War veterans, held on this site, then the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Erected August 11, 1949
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