Mar., 1917] Columbus, Ohio, Quadrangle 155 



any other, hence its name. The intersection of High and 

 Broad streets, both leading far into the country, became the 

 chief center and the State House corner. This pre-eminence 

 was further augmented when Broad Street west became the 

 national pike and High Street north the Columbus-Sandusky 

 pike. Main Street lies along the national pike east and early 

 became a leading street. Because of the relation of High 

 Street to the river, and of the relation of the two leading streets 

 to the incoming pikes, the town has pushed out in four direc- 

 tions, making a great Greek cross, (Fig. 1) ; and not until quite 

 recently has there been much filling in of the corners. Ten or 

 twelve years ago Columbus reached seven miles north and 

 south and almost seven miles east and west, with an area of 

 scarcely twenty square miles and nearly two of these bare 

 flood plain. 



The older manufacturing plants, such as the carriage factories 

 and shoe factories were located in the heart of town, in order 

 to be in touch with river, canal and later the first railroads. 

 Of course they still remain there and enjoy these locational 

 privileges. Several later plants, as the Kilbourne-Jacobs and 

 Kinnear machinery factories, and the Pennsylvania railroad 

 shops and some of the State Institutions have been built up 

 on the periphery of the old town, the former along the railroads, 

 the latter on the attractive streets, east, north and west. And 

 now, a later chain of manufacturing plants has been swung 

 around the recent city three or four miles from the center and 

 along the railroads; — the steel plant (Fig. 9), starch factory and 

 fire apparatus factory on the south, where the Hocking, Toledo 

 & Ohio Central and Norfolk & Western railroads part company; 

 the lithograph company, at the intersection of the Big Four 

 and Fifth Avenue east; foundaries, machine shops and cold 

 storage and butterine plants along the west side of the north 

 arm of the city on the short spur from the railroad yards just 

 north of the mouth of the Olentangy. The asylums for the 

 insane (Fig. 11) and the feeble-minded stand on beautiful sites 

 on the Scioto bluffs far out in the western arm. Many other 

 plants owe their general location away from the center to their 

 late arrival and the crowded condition of the business district; 

 and their specific location to the intersection of two railroads 

 or to some other transportational facility. 



