Fifty-two students enrolled in the school, which taught first through ninth grades. King and Ben Thompson , the forward thinking brothers behind the development of Upper Arlington, were committed to education.
In , Prior to the construction of the frame schoolhouse, King Thompson's basement at Cambridge Boulevard was being used as a school for more than a dozen children in first through third grade. Children in upper grades attended Grandview Heights. It was the Thompson brothers through their company, the Upper Arlington Company, who put up the funds necessary to build the temporary school for all the children in the village. The school was completed and opened for class in October The Board of Education named its secretary-treasurer, Evan L.
Mahaffey , as the first superintendent of the school district. The financial burden of running a school district not fulfilled by local taxes during that school year was assumed by the Upper Arlington Company. The generosity of King and Ben Thompson continued.
Moody Nolan Inc. Check out the latest renderings in the attached gallery. Upper Arlington City Schools' enrollment has climbed steadily from 5, students in to 6, last school year, and based on these trends the district expects to grow to 7, students in the next decade. Grades have been steady around 1,, but that's projected to increase to 2, by The school says this is the final phase of its programming process for the schools, with plans and renderings expected to be drawn up through February before they can be put out to bid.
Runyon did the writing, targeting a middle-school-aged reader. Starr did the marketing. Born in , Litchford became a blacksmith, a trade that he passed along to his sons. He brought his family to the Columbus area, and in , he purchased a small farm near the Scioto River. Over the ensuing decades, he made many additional land purchases.
To repay that debt, Litchford indentured his eldest son, Miles, to Neil. Miles later moved to Utah and became estranged from his father, although he inherited a share of the Litchford property. Litchford joined a diverse community in the wilds of Perry Township: Native Americans, descendants of Revolutionary War veterans, immigrants, freed Black people and others looking to make a good life for their families.
He joined the First Baptist Church, which had been formed in ; of its 11 founding members, three were Black. His grandson William H. Litchferd the name turns up with various spellings across the family tree established the elegant Litchford Hotel at 90 N. Fourth St. Its Club Litchford hosted many well-known musical acts, such as Nancy Wilson. Also related to Pleasant was C.
Bryant, founder of a company that played a key role in the construction of many important Columbus buildings. In the cemetery office, she was told that Laura Walker had turned up on the family tree of Pleasant Litchford.
She went home and did some research. Because of the break in her own family story, Runyon and Starr had not located her earlier, when they were looking for Litchford relatives. After reading their book, she reached out to them.
Williams takes pride in her newfound family history. Through Starr, Williams made the acquaintance of relatives she never knew. The same year that Williams learned of her connection to Pleasant Litchford, Upper Arlington celebrated its th anniversary. A plan created by land developer and city founder King Thompson.
In , Thompson and his brother Ben purchased acres south of Lane Avenue and began subdividing it to create a type of neighborhood that had been springing up across the U. S for a couple of decades: a planned community. Before planned communities, areas outside U. But in the late 19th century, investment groups began to pour capital into real estate development, opening up the possibility of creating something more uniform and regulated.
Thompson was partial to the Garden City concept, with curving streets that created a parklike atmosphere. The earliest deeds did not exclude people by race or religion; rather, they banned uses associated with the poor and minorities, such as subsistence farming.
They specified minimum sizes and minimum prices for homes. Upper Arlington was not alone. During the s, the book reveals, Most common was the prohibition of Blacks In a landmark case, Shelley v.
Kraemer, the U. Supreme Court determined that it was unconstitutional for state courts to enforce racially restrictive covenants. But the exclusionary practice continued. In Upper Arlington, a group was formed, the Northwest Arlington Association, and in some developments, homeowners were required to join before purchasing. If an applicant for membership was Black, the association would exercise its right of first refusal and purchase the home itself and sell to a white person.
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