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| Description | Perhaps no other name is as synonymous with Upper Arlington as that of its founder, King Gibson Thompson. In 1913, with a clear vision of an "ideal community" King and his brother, Ben, purchased 840 acres of the "most suitable, most convenient and the most beautiful rolling, partly wooded Ohio farmland" from James Terrell Miller. The land appealed to the Thompsons as a residential site because of its location on high ground, its proximity to both downtown Columbus and The Ohio State University campus, and its position upwind from larger cities. The beautiful land that was once a "well-managed, immaculately kept, working farm" was subdivided into 2500 lots. The King Thompson Company was started in 1914 to sell the new subdivision to the public. In August of 1914, laborers and teams of horses were hired by the Thompson brothers to construct the first street, named Roxbury Road, leading into this pristine new subdivision. |
| Date | Published November 1918. |
| Source | Scan donated by and available online at UA Archives (Upper Arlington, Ohio) |
| Author | Upper Arlington Community (Ohio) |
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