WOSU’s locally produced series, Columbus Neighborhoods is a great resource for teachers and students to learn more about their city’s history, culture and geography.

Lesson Plans For All Ages

WOSU’s locally produced series, Columbus Neighborhoods is a great resource for teachers and students to learn more about their city’s history, culture and geography.

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Hebrew School class in Bexley

Bexley

Learn about life in the largest Jewish neighborhood in central Ohio, Bexley’s commitment to schools and explore the natural beauty of the only municipality to be designated an arboretum.

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King-Lincoln music

King-Lincoln

A self-contained and self-reliant African American community developed and flourished on the city’s Near East side. The area features a rich and vibrant music heritage. Explore the neighborhood’s demise as the interstate separated it from the rest of the city and shows how the renovation of The Lincoln Theatre may be a sign of the community’s rebirth.

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German Village Houses

German Village

One of the nation's early and most successful urban revitalization campaigns, this charming and vital neighborhood was once home to working-class German immigrants.

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New Americans

The immigrant experience not only defined the character of Columbus during its foundation and early growth, but find out how immigrants now are adding to our culture, supporting our economy and reshaping the American dream.

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The Union Station Arcade in Columbus was located on High Street in the Short North.

Short North

The story of one of the city’s most vibrant and exciting neighborhoods includes the tale of the arches, the rise—and abrupt fall—of Union Station, an incredible reunion of Civil War soldiers, the transformation of a tough, gritty neighborhood to an arts district, and the emergence of local festivals and traditions that have become part of the Short North’s character.

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Olde Towne East

From the 1890s to the 1920s, Olde Towne East was the place to live in Columbus, where the barons of industry and business built their dream houses. The area went through a period of decline when people moved to the suburbs, but today the neighborhood is experiencing a resurgence of residents motivated to fix up the houses and make it a thriving community again.

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Buckeye Steel mill on the South Side of Columbus

South Side

Once an industrial powerhouse, the South Side’s “Steel and Glass” heritage is still honored by the people who live there today. In a neighborhood created by everyone from Appalachian migrants to Hungarian immigrants, it remains a place of strength, diversity and resolve.

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Tri Village

Although connected through history, Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff and Upper Arlington have evolved into three unique communities; a tribute to the legacies of those leaders and dreamers who collectively made Tri-Village what it is today.

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University District

The Old North was the first neighborhood here, and a series of remarkable transformations has seen this area change from farm to campus to streetcar suburbs to a center of education, recreatio, and culture.

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Worthington

Founded by settlers from New England and through pioneer hardships, economic depressions and world wars, the citizens of Worthington have held fast to the principles of fellowship and lifelong learning.

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