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Wayne Carlson
Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society
The April 4, 1923, issue of a weekly magazine called Fire and Water Engineering (V73, #14) had a short paragraph describing the conflict between Grandview Heights and Columbus related to the purview of their respective fire departments. This conflict began in 1922, when the city of Columbus, which had been providing fire service to the community, began charging Grandview for fire-service runs.
The period leading up to this point was a time of tremendous growth in the Grandview and Marble Cliff area. Homes were being built in the community at a rapid rate, and Columbus saw the number of fire runs increasing. Its fire department maintained that it couldn’t continue to service Grandview at no charge.
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The maypole dance is a form of folk dance that originated in Germany, England and Sweden about the same time. The most popular version of the dance consists of eight to 16 girls (the traditional dance alternates girls and boys around a circle) that perform circle dances around a tall, sometimes garland-festooned pole.
These 1918 photographs are from the Grandview Heights/Marble Cliff Historical Society s Alleyne Higgs collection. It shows a group of Grandview girls participating in the maypole dance. Each dancer holds a different-color ribbon and moves in a circle around the pole. As they continue, the dancers intertwine their ribbons either in a web around the pole or to plait it to the pole itself. The pattern on the pole is determined by the choreography of the dance.
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In 1916, brothers King and Ben Thompson, who eventually were responsible for the early planning of what would become Upper Arlington, established the Northwest Boulevard Co. to realize a dream of developing the community, which they had envisioned to be similar to one they had visited in Kansas City.
The plan of development was to be executed on the Miller farm north of Fifth Avenue due to the land’s location, attractiveness and environment. The Miller farm was close to Columbus’ city center (“within three and one-half miles, in a straight line, from the business center of Columbus”) and was on high ground – an aspect especially important in the context of the Great Flood of 1913 that severely affected central Ohio.
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