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Western Union Telegraph Building, lithograph. The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado.. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, [3] the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with several other telegraph ...
List of counties in Ohio. There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [ 1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [ 2] During the Convention, the county was opposed to statehood, and was ...
Camp Chase was an American Civil War training and prison camp established in May 1861, on land leased by the U.S. Government. [ 4 ] It replaced the much smaller Camp Jackson which was established by Ohio Governor William Dennison Jr as a place for Ohio's union volunteers to meet. [ 4 ] It originally operated from a city park.
The remaining three public institutions— Shawnee State University, Central State University and Northeast Ohio Medical University —are relatively small. Case Western Reserve University is the state's largest private university by enrollment, followed by the University of Dayton, Xavier University, Franklin University, Ashland University ...
The Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of the AT&T Corporation for most of its lifespan, Western Electric was the primary manufacturer, supplier, and purchasing agent for all telephone equipment for the Bell System from 1881 until 1984, when the ...
1938. Toledo and Ohio Central Railway. Electric railways. Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Railroad. Akron and Cuyahoga Falls Rapid Transit Company. Blissfield Railroad. Canton and Massillon Electric Railway. Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo Traction. Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway.
The High and Gay Streets Historic District is a historic district in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [ 1 ] The district includes 18 buildings, including three that are non-contributing, and one contributing building that has since been demolished.
ZIP Code. 43215, 43201. Area code. 614/380. The Short North is a neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, United States, centered on the main strip of High Street immediately north of the Arena District and extending until just south of the University District and Ohio State University. It is an easy walk from the convention center or Nationwide Arena ...