 | Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1903 - 876 pages
...Doric style of architecture. They cover nearly three acres, and their total cost has been $2,500,000. As early as 1812 Columbus was surveyed in rectangular...west respectively. The uniform width of the former is 100 feet, and the breadth of the latter is 120 feet. Broad Street is planted with four rows of shade-trees... | |
 | 1908 - 1004 pages
...and Olentangy rivers. It was made the State capital by an act of the legislature in 1810. In 1812 it was surveyed in rectangular squares. It was incorporated as a village in 181G and chartered as a citv in 1834. In 181G it also became the permanent capital — the original... | |
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As early as 1812 Columbus was surveyed in rectangular squares; it was incorporated as a village in 1816, and chartered as a city in 1834. In general outline the city resembles a Maltese cross. It extends eight miles north and south, and seven miles east... 