Down by the Old Farm Traditional Cache
Backwoods Reviewer: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.
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In a wooded ravine with a small stream running through it. There is a small pull-off parking area on the shoulder of the road, just west of the best place to access the ravine. Parking coordinates: N39 59.661, W083 03;848. Easy route (nice set of stairs and rock foot stones) situated between parking and cache: N39 59.668, W 083 03.847. Please CITO, the GZ area is a mess, thanks to (possibly young??) party people.
Upper Arlington was founded by brothers King and Ben Thompson, real estate developers, who purchased farmland in 1913 from James Terrell Miller. Inspired by the garden city movement, the Thompsons envisioned an idealistic residential community. The brothers engaged William Pitkin Jr., a prominent landscape architect from Rochester, New York, to provide the most modern concepts of city planning. Over the years, Upper Arlington annexed land to reach its current boundaries. Upper Arlington has had a Native American trail and a military training camp, and its historic district earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places.
The original purchase included almost a thousand acres of rolling, partly wooded Ohio farmland – a working farm on high ground. In 1914, laborers and teams of horses were hired by the Thompson brothers to construct the first street, Roxbury Road, to lead into this lovely new subdivision of 2500 lots.
The land for what is now Upper Arlington was directly adjacent to the Marble Cliff Quarry Co. The originators wanted to call their project the "Country Club District" after the Country Club development in Kansas City, but by 1917, the community became known as "Upper Arlington," in reference to its southern neighbor of Arlington (now known as Marble Cliff). The Upper Arlington Company was incorporated that year as the developer for the area, and operated out of a field office built on the former Miller farm. The field office building is used as the Miller Park branch of the Upper Arlington Library. Even though the Miller Park Library has recently been expanded and renovated, the core of its structure is the original field office building. The Library is worth a visit, since you’ll be in its vicinity.
This cache is adjacent to some of the oldest and grandest homes in Upper Arlington and literally just around the bend from what had been the old Miller Farm house (now the site of First Community Village – a senior community). The area nearby to this cache reminds us that anyone who characterizes Columbus as boring and without geographic features of interest has not done much exploring.
Congratulations to BuckeyeBeth for FTF -- her first!
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