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Website. Official website. Quarry Trails Metro Park is a 220-acre (89 ha) metropolitan park in Columbus, Ohio, owned and operated by Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks. The park opened on November 30, 2021, as Central Ohio's 20th metro park. Portions of the park remained under construction, although 200 acres opened, including a 25-foot ...
A prison riot developed and firefighters arriving to fight the blaze were attacked with rocks. [8] A cordon of penitentiary guards was deployed about the towering prison walls. Other squads took up vantage points in guard towers and by this time 500 soldiers from Fort Hayes, a local military post, were on the scene. Machine guns were placed at ...
Athens is a city and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio, United States.The population was 23,849 at the 2020 census. [5] Located along the Hocking River within Appalachian Ohio about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Columbus, Athens is best known as the home of Ohio University, a large public research university with an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 21,000 students. [6]
Topiary Park is a 9.2-acre (3.7 ha) public park and garden in Columbus, Ohio 's Discovery District. The park's topiary garden, officially the Topiary Garden at Old Deaf School Park, is designed to depict figures from Georges Seurat 's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It is the only park based entirely on a ...
The Point Pleasant Formation is the oldest rock unit exposed at the surface in Ohio and formed during the Late Ordovician, outcropping along the Ohio River near Cincinnati. The formation records a transition from shallow-water limestone reef formation to a deeper water environment, marked by overlying shale and limestone, which form the ...
Ohio Caverns. / 40.233°N 83.683°W / 40.233; -83.683. Ohio Caverns is a show cave located 30 miles (48 km) from Dayton, Ohio near West Liberty, in Salem Township, Champaign County, Ohio in the United States. A popular tourist destination and member of the National Caving Association, it is the largest of all the cave systems in Ohio ...
The Olentangy River is the primary source of drinking water for much of Delaware County. Both the City of Delaware and Del-Co Water Company, the supplier of drinking water to most of rural Delaware County (and other communities beyond), draw the majority of their water supplies from the Olentangy system. Twenty-two miles of the Olentangy have ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Performing and Cultural Arts Complex is a historic building in the King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. It was built in 1925 as the Pythian Temple and James Pythian Theater, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places and Columbus Register of Historic Properties in 1983.