To reach our destination of Columbus, OH, aim for 46,400
steps this week. (9,257 per day)
Did you know...
Evidence of ancient mound-building societies abounds in the region near the
confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers. Mound Street, located in
downtown Columbus, was so named because of its proximity to a large Native
American burial mound. Numerous other earthworks were found throughout the
area, including a surviving edifice on McKinley Avenue. Those ancient
civilizations had long since faded into history when European explorers began
moving into the region south of Lake Erie.
After Ohio achieved statehood in 1803, political infighting among Ohio's
more prominent leaders resulted in the state capital moving from Chillicothe to
Zanesville and back again. The state legislature finally decided that a new
capital city, located in the center of the state, was a necessary compromise.
Several of Ohio's small towns and villages petitioned the legislature for the
honor of becoming the state capital, but ultimately a coalition of land
speculators, with Sullivant's support, made the most attractive offer to the Ohio
General Assembly. Named in honor of Christopher Columbus, the capital city was
founded on February 14, 1812, on the "High Banks opposite Franklinton at
the Forks of the Scioto known as Wolf's Ridge." At the time, this area was
a dense forestland, used only as a hunting ground.
On January 7, 1857, the Ohio Statehouse finally opened to the public after
eighteen years of construction.
Columbus earned its nickname "The Arch City" because of the dozens
of metal (formerly wooden) arches that spanned High Street at the turn of the
twentieth century. The arches illuminated the thoroughfare and eventually
became the means by which electric power was provided to the new streetcars.
The arches were torn down and replaced with cluster lights in 1914, but were
reconstructed in the Short North district in 2002 for their unique historical
interest.
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