With the coming of Intel, the transformation of central Ohio with new factories and new people seems to be forthcoming.
With the coming of Intel to Ohio, the transformation of central Ohio with new factories and new people seems to be forthcoming. One might wonder if this part of the world ever had seen such rapid change.Thomas Kelah Wharton came to Columbus in 1832. He was 17 and traveling with his family to a new life in a new land, having recently arrived from Great Britain. His father was a promoter of people and property.
In his personal journal kept through these years, he never explained other than to say he spent some time “making a picture.”He made this picture because he saw something worth remembering — the coming of the canal. With Clinton as the strong and strenuous supporter of canals in general and his in particular, it did not take long for other states to seek canals of their own. In Ohio, the main promoter was politician and eventual governor Ethan Allen Brown. As early as 1818, he was urging Ohio to build a canal linking the Ohio River to Lake Erie. It took until 1825 to get the project underway.
“The workmen who were exposed to the malarial atmosphere of the swamps were often scourged by the febrile disorders of the period.”
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