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Marble Cliff |
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Address
1600 Fernwood ave.
Marble Cliff, OH 43212
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Phone
614.486.6993 |
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Ohio was Indian territory before 1795, the year the Indians agreed, in the Treaty of Greenville, to move west. Only a few white hunters, hardy pioneers and surveyors ventured across the Ohio River to explore its tributaries.
One such surveyor was Lucas Sullivant. In the spring and summer of 1796, using Indian foot paths, his surveying party followed the Scioto River northward to where it joined the Whetstone (Olentangy) River.
Sullivant filed claim to huge tracts of land and began laying out plats for his town, Franklinton, on the west side of the Scioto River. Thomas Hutchins, geographer of the United States, and Mathews and Buckingham, official surveyors, platted what is now Columbus, Grandview and Marble Cliff. Lucas Sullivant was the original owner of the area, purchasing the land at the land grant office in Chillicothe from an agent of President James Madison.
Grandview and Marble Cliff were included in the Refugee Tract of the Congress Lands and the Virginia Militia District, which came about after the Revolutionary War. The land known as the Refugee Tract was designated for the Canadian "Refugees" who aided the American Colonists and could not return to their homes.
Virginia gave up her claim to land northwest of the Ohio River in 1795 for the benefit of the union. However, if its Kentucky lands would not be sufficient to satisfy Virginia's land grants to soldiers, then lands between the Little Miami and Scioto Rivers would make up the deficiency. Thus was created the Virginia Military District between the rivers, extending north as far as their headwaters.
When Ohio became the 17th state in 1803, Franklin County extended as far north as Lake Erie.
By 1816, the town of Columbus was laid out 1832 found many farms in our area, including the one sold by Joel Buttles for a County Poor Farm.
In 1842, the present Grandview Heights area was divided into 12 plots; while A. O'Harra, J. O'Harra and A. Sperry owned most of the present Marble Cliff, with county roads situated at the locations of Dublin Road, Olentangy River Road, and Fifth Avenue. By 1850, the Columbus and Xenia passenger train steamed into Columbus, accelerating growth of business there.
The first school was established at the corner of Dublin and Grandview Avenue (unofficially called Walcutt's School), and its designation was Franklin Township School.
George Urlin, John Tilton, Fred H. Croughton and Edward Denmead bought tracts of land and laid out the streets of the future Grandview Heights. J. Slyh, J. H. and J. Miller and A. Wood owned the farms that became Marble Cliff.
In 1901, the entire area between the two rivers, and roughly King Avenue, became united as the Hamlet of Marble Cliff for the first and last time. In 1902, Marble Cliff detached all but its present area and what was to become, in 1906, a separate village called Grandview Heights. The latter included both sides of Lincoln Rd. (then Paul Ave.), the northern boundary went east on a line with Third Avenue to the center of Glenn Avenue. It turned south and ran east along the north edge of the lot lines of houses facing West First Avenue to Fairview. It included the future Edison School and the Harding School tracts going south to the center line of Broadview at First Avenue, then east to the center line of Grandview Avenue, and hence south to a distance just below the railroad tracks, returning west to the Marble Cliff corporation line.
The Grandview of today was formed by annexation after 1912, including some Northwest Boulevard tracts after 1920.
S. C. Jones, president of city council, was the first mayor of Grandview in 1906, followed by James T. Carman in 1912, C. K. Seibert in 1916 and John Ryder from 1918 to 1940.
Schools were important to the Tri-Village (Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff and Upper Arlington) residents. The Harding School was built in 1895, Edison east 1911, Edison west 1922, Grandview High School in 1923 and the Robert Louis Stevenson School in 1926.
The Grandview Avenue Bank Block, one of the first of its kind, was constructed in 1927.
In 1920, the whole area presented a quiet, sedate appearance. After World War II there was a growth spurt that saw many multiple family units built. Industry and shopping centers arose.
After Grandview became a city in 1931, it did not lose its small town charm. It remained the same in many ways. There is still a close-knit feeling and neighborliness among the people. Few neighborhoods in a city have remained so delightfully unspoiled for nearly a century.
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