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 "title": "Clintonville and Old North Columbus: from the village on High Street to Blueprint Columbus",
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   "claim": "Clinton Township, the township Clintonville is named for, was created by the Franklin County commissioners on July 1, 1811.",
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   "quote": "Clinton Township was created by the County commissioners on July 1st, 1811.",
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   "claim": "Clinton Township was named for Vice President George Clinton, and the settlement at its center took the township's name.",
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   "quote": "named after Vice President George Clinton",
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   "id": "C3",
   "claim": "Clintonville grew from a cluster of shops and houses built along the Columbus and Worthington road, now High Street.",
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   "quote": "grew up a little town, and took the name of Clintonville",
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   "id": "C4",
   "claim": "Williams's 1880 county history says the first Clintonville building lots were laid out in 1846 or 1847 and that no plat of them was recorded, so the place began without a recorded plat.",
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   "quote": "had no plat of his lots recorded",
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     "publisher": "Williams Brothers",
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   "id": "C5",
   "claim": "A post office was established at Clintonville in October 1847.",
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   "quote": "A postoffice was established there in October, 1847",
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    {
     "publisher": "Williams Brothers",
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   "id": "C6",
   "claim": "North Columbus was a separate plat on High Street about a mile south of Clintonville, laid out for Solomon and George W. Beers by the surveyor Samuel Kinnear.",
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   "quote": "named the place North Columbus",
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     "publisher": "Williams Brothers",
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   "id": "C7",
   "claim": "The same county history gives three different years for the North Columbus plat, so no single year for it is given here.",
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   "quote": "In 1842 Solomon and George W. Beers laid out forty acres into lots",
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     "publisher": "Williams Brothers",
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   "id": "C8",
   "claim": "Columbus took in the village of North Columbus in 1871.",
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   "quote": "gobbled up, in 1871",
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    {
     "publisher": "Jacob H. Studer",
     "title": "Columbus, Ohio: Its History, Resources, and Progress, increase in extent of territory, page 98, and the fire department chapter, Wells and Cisterns, page 136",
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    {
     "publisher": "Williams Brothers",
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   "id": "C9",
   "claim": "That annexation took 1,312 acres from Clinton Township, part of a 4,052-acre enlargement of the city.",
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   "quote": "and from Clinton township, 1,312 - making an addition of 4,052 acres",
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    {
     "publisher": "Jacob H. Studer",
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   "id": "C10",
   "claim": "Lee's 1892 city history instead dates the extension of the corporate limits that brought in the North Columbus schoolhouse to 1872.",
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   "quote": "By the extension of the corporate limits of the city in 1872",
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    {
     "publisher": "Alfred E. Lee",
     "title": "History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio, volume I, schools chapter",
     "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcityofc01leea/historyofcityofc01leea_djvu.txt",
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   "id": "C11",
   "claim": "Studer wrote in 1873 that the city water works had been established within the city limits as they stood before the recent annexation of territory.",
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   "quote": "fully established in the city limits, as they were before the recent annexation",
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    {
     "publisher": "Jacob H. Studer",
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   "id": "C12",
   "claim": "The city's northeast and northwest trunk sewer ordinances were passed on August 11, 1879.",
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   "quote": "The northeast and northwest trunk sewer ordinances were passed August 11, 1879",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Alfred E. Lee",
     "title": "History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio, volume II, street transportation pages 309 to 313 and streets, sewers and parks pages 531 to 533",
     "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcityofc02leea/historyofcityofc02leea_djvu.txt",
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   "id": "C13",
   "claim": "As Lee's 1892 history describes it, the Northwestern Trunk Sewer and its extension ended at Sixth Avenue, well south of the ground annexed in 1871.",
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   "quote": "An extension of this sewer begins at Fifth Avenue",
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    {
     "publisher": "Alfred E. Lee",
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   "id": "C15",
   "claim": "An ordinance of June 12, 1876 authorized a track on High Street from Naghten Street to the north corporation line, and by October 9 of that year cars were running two miles north of Naghten Street.",
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   "quote": "cars were running on the track for a distance of two miles",
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    {
     "publisher": "Alfred E. Lee",
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   "id": "C16",
   "claim": "WOSU Public Media says that by the early 1900s downtown residents and Ohio State professors had built summer homes in Clintonville, and that the farmland around them became housing developments shortly after the streetcar lines were extended north.",
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   "quote": "shortly after the extension of the streetcar lines northward from Columbus",
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     "publisher": "WOSU Public Media",
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   "id": "C17",
   "claim": "In April 1898 the City of Columbus's Director of Public Improvements, in a letter printed by the Ohio State Board of Health, called North Columbus the highest elevation in the city and proposed running mains east to it to connect with the city's mains.",
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   "quote": "directly east to North Columbus, the highest elevation in the city",
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     "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
     "title": "Thirteenth Annual Report, letter of Felix A. Jacobs, Director of Public Improvements, Columbus, dated April 20, 1898, page 89",
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   "id": "C18",
   "claim": "In 1913 the Ohio State Board of Health approved a private sewer and sewage treatment plant for six residences on Mill Road in Clinton Township, two miles above the north corporation line of Columbus.",
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   "quote": "from High Street to Olentangy River along Mill Road in Clinton Township",
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     "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
     "title": "Twenty-eighth Annual Report, report on proposed private sewer and sewage treatment plant in Clinton Township, near Columbus, pages 470 to 471",
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   "id": "C19",
   "claim": "The board's report on that project says the water supplies there came from private wells, with storage for indoor plumbing provided by individual tanks in the houses.",
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   "quote": "The water supplies are obtained from private wells",
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    {
     "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
     "title": "Twenty-eighth Annual Report, report on proposed private sewer and sewage treatment plant in Clinton Township, near Columbus, pages 470 to 471",
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   "id": "C20",
   "claim": "That private sewer was to be 8-inch vitrified pipe, 2,400 to 3,600 feet long, discharging to the Olentangy River through a two-story settling tank set entirely underground and vented by two 6-inch pipes.",
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   "quote": "it will be constructed of 8-inch vitrified sewer pipe",
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    {
     "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
     "title": "Twenty-eighth Annual Report, report on proposed private sewer and sewage treatment plant in Clinton Township, near Columbus, pages 470 to 471",
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   "id": "C21",
   "claim": "The board's approval capped the population connected at thirty and was void unless the works were built before October 1, 1913.",
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   "quote": "the population connected to the proposed sewer shall not exceed thirty",
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    {
     "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
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   "id": "C22",
   "claim": "Fourteen annual reports of the Ohio State Board of Health from 1893 to 1913 were searched for Clintonville and for North Columbus as places with a public water supply or a sewer plan, and neither appears; the only Franklin County item found under Clinton Township is that 1913 private sewer.",
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   "quote": "Residential Sewage Disposal Plants - Clinton Township, Franklin County",
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    {
     "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
     "title": "Twenty-eighth Annual Report, report on proposed private sewer and sewage treatment plant in Clinton Township, near Columbus, pages 470 to 471",
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     "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
     "title": "Thirteenth Annual Report, letter of Felix A. Jacobs, Director of Public Improvements, Columbus, dated April 20, 1898, page 89",
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   "id": "C23",
   "claim": "The City of Columbus's own Clintonville plan traces the city limit north from Chittenden Avenue to Arcadia Avenue by 1870, to Oakland Park Avenue in 1910, to Glencoe Road in 1921, and to Rathbone and Morse roads in 1924.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "In 1910 the city limit moved north to Oakland Park Avenue",
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     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Clintonville Neighborhood Plan, adopted by Columbus City Council March 2, 2009, introduction and history pages 2 to 4, natural environment page 25",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/files/sharedassets/city/v/1/building-and-zoning/bzs-boards-and-commissions/planning-document-library/clintonville-neighborhood-plan-2009.pdf",
     "published": "2009-03-02"
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   "id": "C24",
   "claim": "Columbus next annexed parts of Clintonville north to Worthington in 1956, and that annexation took in Beechwold.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "This annexation also absorbed the community of Beechwold",
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    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Clintonville Neighborhood Plan, adopted by Columbus City Council March 2, 2009, introduction and history pages 2 to 4, natural environment page 25",
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     "published": "2009-03-02"
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     "publisher": "WOSU Public Media",
     "title": "Columbus Neighborhoods, Clintonville",
     "url": "https://devcolumbusneighborhoods.osu.edu/neighborhood/clintonville/",
     "published": "undated"
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   "id": "C25",
   "claim": "Beechwold takes its name from Beechwalde, the house of the manufacturer Joseph Jeffrey; the developer Charles Johnson bought the property in 1914 and began building the community in 1915.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Jeffrey's property was bought by developer Charles Johnson in 1914",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Clintonville Neighborhood Plan, adopted by Columbus City Council March 2, 2009, introduction and history pages 2 to 4, natural environment page 25",
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   "id": "C26",
   "claim": "The Beechwold Realty Company's own pamphlet of about 1915 says the plat was engineered and designed by the landscape architect William Pitkin, Jr., of Rochester, New York.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "engineered and designed by Mr. William Pitkin, Jr., of Rochester, N. Y.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus Memory",
     "title": "Beechwold the Beautiful, a pamphlet of the Beechwold Realty Company, item 151966",
     "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/memory/id/151966/",
     "published": "1915 circa"
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  {
   "id": "C27",
   "claim": "The Old Beechwold Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1987, under reference number 87001146.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Old Beechwold Historic District",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "National Park Service",
     "title": "National Register of Historic Places locations map service, points layer 0 and polygons layer 1, cultural resources",
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     "published": "undated"
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  {
   "id": "C28",
   "claim": "The Glen Echo Historic District, roughly bounded by the Glen Echo Ravine, the Big Four railroad tracks, Indianola Avenue and Hudson Street, was added to the National Register on October 24, 1997, under reference number 97001241.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Roughly bounded by Glen Echo Ravine, Big Four RR tracks, Indianola Ave.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "National Park Service",
     "title": "National Register of Historic Places locations map service, points layer 0 and polygons layer 1, cultural resources",
     "url": "https://mapservices.nps.gov/arcgis/rest/services/cultural_resources/nrhp_locations/MapServer/1/query",
     "published": "undated"
    }
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  },
  {
   "id": "C30",
   "claim": "Hooper's 1920 city history says Olentangy Park was laid out and completed by the Columbus Street Railway Company in 1896 and run by that company until 1899, when it was leased.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "laid out and completed by the Columbus Street Railway Company in 1896",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Osman Castle Hooper",
     "title": "History of the City of Columbus, Ohio, street railway and biographical sections",
     "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcityofc00hoop/historyofcityofc00hoop_djvu.txt",
     "published": "1920"
    }
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  {
   "id": "C31",
   "claim": "Two publishers give different spans for the park, so no single opening and closing year is printed here.",
   "status": "conflict",
   "quote": "opened as an amusement park in 1899",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Memory, a program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio",
     "title": "Columbus Bicentennial: Amusement Parks of the Past, by Lily Birkhimer, Digital Projects Coordinator, Ohio History Connection",
     "url": "https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/735",
     "published": "2012-06-29"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "WOSU Public Media",
     "title": "Columbus Neighborhoods, Clintonville",
     "url": "https://devcolumbusneighborhoods.osu.edu/neighborhood/clintonville/",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "Osman Castle Hooper",
     "title": "History of the City of Columbus, Ohio, street railway and biographical sections",
     "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcityofc00hoop/historyofcityofc00hoop_djvu.txt",
     "published": "1920"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C32",
   "claim": "Ohio Memory says the park's swimming pool was added in the 1920s, had filtered water and a diving board, and, in its words, was the world's largest at the time.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "At the time, the pool was the world's largest.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Memory, a program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio",
     "title": "Columbus Bicentennial: Amusement Parks of the Past, by Lily Birkhimer, Digital Projects Coordinator, Ohio History Connection",
     "url": "https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/735",
     "published": "2012-06-29"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "WOSU Public Media",
     "title": "Columbus Neighborhoods, Clintonville",
     "url": "https://devcolumbusneighborhoods.osu.edu/neighborhood/clintonville/",
     "published": "undated"
    }
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  {
   "id": "C33",
   "claim": "The park's ground is now the Olentangy Village apartments.",
   "status": "verified",
   "quote": "Olentangy Park, present day location of Olentangy Village",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "Ohio Memory, a program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio",
     "title": "Columbus Bicentennial: Amusement Parks of the Past, by Lily Birkhimer, Digital Projects Coordinator, Ohio History Connection",
     "url": "https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/735",
     "published": "2012-06-29"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Clintonville Neighborhood Plan, adopted by Columbus City Council March 2, 2009, introduction and history pages 2 to 4, natural environment page 25",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/files/sharedassets/city/v/1/building-and-zoning/bzs-boards-and-commissions/planning-document-library/clintonville-neighborhood-plan-2009.pdf",
     "published": "2009-03-02"
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  },
  {
   "id": "C34",
   "claim": "The Census Bureau's 1950 tract map draws the tracts covering Clintonville and Old North Columbus between the Olentangy River and the railroad, from Tompkins Street and Clinton north to the city limits: tract 6 north to Parkview Drive, tract 5 to Weber Road, tract 4 to Orchard Lane and Oakland Park Avenue, tract 2 to Cooke Road, and tract 1 north of Cooke Road.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Part 1.-Tracts in Columbus city",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "United States Bureau of the Census",
     "title": "U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Volume III, Census Tract Statistics, Chapter 13, Columbus, Ohio and Adjacent Area (Bulletin P-D13): comparability panel page 6, Table 1 page 7, Table 3 page 25, and the map Part 1, Tracts in Columbus city",
     "url": "https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-3/41557421v3p1ch8.pdf",
     "published": "1952"
    }
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  {
   "id": "C35",
   "claim": "The bulletin's comparability panel says 1950 tract boundaries match the 1940 tracts of the same number except for a listed few, and tracts 4 and 5 are on that list, which is why no 1940 population is published for either.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Boundaries of 1950 census tracts are the same as for 1940 tracts",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "United States Bureau of the Census",
     "title": "U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Volume III, Census Tract Statistics, Chapter 13, Columbus, Ohio and Adjacent Area (Bulletin P-D13): comparability panel page 6, Table 1 page 7, Table 3 page 25, and the map Part 1, Tracts in Columbus city",
     "url": "https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-3/41557421v3p1ch8.pdf",
     "published": "1952"
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  {
   "id": "C36",
   "claim": "The Census Bureau counted 6,944 people in tract 1 in 1950 against 2,618 in 1940, and 7,615 in tract 2 against 6,308; tracts 6 and 10 barely moved, at 5,409 against 5,287 and 6,563 against 6,372.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Total population, 1940",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "United States Bureau of the Census",
     "title": "U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Volume III, Census Tract Statistics, Chapter 13, Columbus, Ohio and Adjacent Area (Bulletin P-D13): comparability panel page 6, Table 1 page 7, Table 3 page 25, and the map Part 1, Tracts in Columbus city",
     "url": "https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-3/41557421v3p1ch8.pdf",
     "published": "1952"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C37",
   "claim": "Under the column heading No private bath or dilapidated the 1950 tract bulletin counted 12 of 2,221 dwelling units reporting in tract 1, 21 of 2,423 in tract 2, 60 of 2,655 in tract 4, 33 of 1,660 in tract 5, 125 of 1,737 in tract 6 and 166 of 2,092 in tract 10, against 19,458 of 108,286 for the city of Columbus.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "No private bath or dilapidated",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "United States Bureau of the Census",
     "title": "U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Volume III, Census Tract Statistics, Chapter 13, Columbus, Ohio and Adjacent Area (Bulletin P-D13): comparability panel page 6, Table 1 page 7, Table 3 page 25, and the map Part 1, Tracts in Columbus city",
     "url": "https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-3/41557421v3p1ch8.pdf",
     "published": "1952"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C38",
   "claim": "Of the sixty-one tracts inside the city of Columbus in that table, tract 1 had the smallest share of dwelling units under that heading and tract 2 the second smallest.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "No private bath or dilapidated",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "United States Bureau of the Census",
     "title": "U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Volume III, Census Tract Statistics, Chapter 13, Columbus, Ohio and Adjacent Area (Bulletin P-D13): comparability panel page 6, Table 1 page 7, Table 3 page 25, and the map Part 1, Tracts in Columbus city",
     "url": "https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-3/41557421v3p1ch8.pdf",
     "published": "1952"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C39",
   "claim": "The same table's year-built rows put most of the housing in these tracts in the 1920s and later: of the units reporting a year built, tract 2 shows 1,100 of 2,375 from 1920 to 1929, tract 4 shows 1,290 of 2,495, tract 1 shows 1,305 of 2,135 built in 1940 or later, and tract 10 shows 1,090 of 1,895 built in 1919 or earlier.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "1919 or earlier",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "United States Bureau of the Census",
     "title": "U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Volume III, Census Tract Statistics, Chapter 13, Columbus, Ohio and Adjacent Area (Bulletin P-D13): comparability panel page 6, Table 1 page 7, Table 3 page 25, and the map Part 1, Tracts in Columbus city",
     "url": "https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-3/41557421v3p1ch8.pdf",
     "published": "1952"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C40",
   "claim": "The City of Columbus's Clintonville planning area covers about 3,926 acres, roughly six square miles, bounded by the Worthington limits on the north, the CSX railroad tracks on the east, the Glen Echo ravine on the south and the Olentangy River on the west.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "covering an area approximately 3,926 acres (six square miles)",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Clintonville Neighborhood Plan, adopted by Columbus City Council March 2, 2009, introduction and history pages 2 to 4, natural environment page 25",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/files/sharedassets/city/v/1/building-and-zoning/bzs-boards-and-commissions/planning-document-library/clintonville-neighborhood-plan-2009.pdf",
     "published": "2009-03-02"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C41",
   "claim": "Four wooded ravine streams cross Clintonville on their way to the Olentangy: Bill Moose Run, Adena Brook, Walhalla Ravine and Glen Echo Ravine.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "Bill Moose Run, Adena Brook, Walhalla Ravine, and Glen Echo Ravine",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Clintonville Neighborhood Plan, adopted by Columbus City Council March 2, 2009, introduction and history pages 2 to 4, natural environment page 25",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/files/sharedassets/city/v/1/building-and-zoning/bzs-boards-and-commissions/planning-document-library/clintonville-neighborhood-plan-2009.pdf",
     "published": "2009-03-02"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C42",
   "claim": "Whetstone Park came out of the city's 1944 purchase of land originally owned by John Rathbone, and holds the 13-acre Park of Roses with more than 11,000 rose bushes.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "the city's 1944 purchase of land also originally owned by John Rathbone",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Clintonville Neighborhood Plan, adopted by Columbus City Council March 2, 2009, introduction and history pages 2 to 4, natural environment page 25",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/files/sharedassets/city/v/1/building-and-zoning/bzs-boards-and-commissions/planning-document-library/clintonville-neighborhood-plan-2009.pdf",
     "published": "2009-03-02"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C43",
   "claim": "The City of Columbus says it is under orders from Ohio EPA to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows, and that Blueprint Columbus is its answer to those orders, including eliminating the overflow into Adena Brook in Whetstone Park.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "eliminating the overflow into Adena Brook in Whetstone Park",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Blueprint Columbus, Clintonville Area",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Services/Public-Utilities/About-Public-Utilities/Office-of-Sustainability/Blueprint-Columbus/Clintonville-Area",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C44",
   "claim": "The city points anyone asking about that overflow to sanitary sewer overflow discharge number 30, and says homes in the Clintonville project area are connected to a city sanitary sewer that contributes to the overflows.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "please reference SSO discharge number 30",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Blueprint Columbus, Clintonville Area",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Services/Public-Utilities/About-Public-Utilities/Office-of-Sustainability/Blueprint-Columbus/Clintonville-Area",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C45",
   "claim": "The city describes the program's four pillars as lateral lining, roof water redirection, a voluntary sump pump program and green infrastructure.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "lateral lining, roof water redirection, a voluntary sump pump program",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Blueprint Columbus, Sustainability at Columbus Water and Power",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Services/Columbus-Water-Power/About-Columbus-Water-Power/Sustainability-at-Columbus-Water-Power/Blueprint-Columbus",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C46",
   "claim": "The city divides the Clintonville work into project areas, and its Blueprint Clintonville 2 project set out to reline about 135 sanitary sewer service laterals in Old Beechwold, in ground bounded by West Rathbone Avenue, North High Street, Rustic Place and the Olentangy River, with construction expected from the second quarter of 2024 to the second quarter of 2025.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "approximately 135 sanitary sewer service laterals",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Blueprint Clintonville Area Projects, Blueprint Capital Improvement Projects",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Business-Development/Capital-Improvement-Projects/Blueprint-CIPs/Blueprint-Clintonville-Area-Projects",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "C47",
   "claim": "Columbus City Council established the Historic Resources Commission by Ordinance No. 2638-80 on November 3, 1980, and the commission issues Certificates of Appropriateness for exterior alterations at properties in Columbus Register districts.",
   "status": "single",
   "quote": "The Historic Resources Commission was established by Ordinance No. 2638-80",
   "sources": [
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Historic Resources Commission By-Laws, Article I and Article VIII",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/files/sharedassets/city/v/1/building-and-zoning/bzs-boards-and-commissions/planning-boards-and-commissions/historic-resources-commission-bylaws.pdf",
     "published": "undated"
    },
    {
     "publisher": "City of Columbus",
     "title": "Historic Preservation and Design Review: Historic Resources Commission",
     "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Business-Development/Building-Zoning-Services/Boards-and-Commissions/Historic-Preservation-Design-Review-Boards-Commissions-Panels/Historic-Resources-Commission",
     "published": "undated"
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "conflicts": [
  {
   "claim_id": "C7",
   "a": "1842",
   "a_source": "S1, page 408",
   "b": "1852, quoting Martin's history (S1, pages 567 to 568); and 1854 in the biographical sketch of Josiah Kinnear, sheriff, a different Kinnear than the Samuel Kinnear named as surveyor on pages 567 to 568 (S1, biographical section)",
   "b_source": "S1, pages 567 to 568, and S1 biographical section",
   "printed": "print neither as the plat year; print that one county history gives three years and name them; do not attribute the 1854 date to the same surveyor named for the plat, since the source itself credits it to a different, differently-named Kinnear"
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "C8",
   "a": "1871",
   "a_source": "S2 and S1",
   "b": "1872",
   "b_source": "S4",
   "printed": "print A because two publishers give 1871 and Studer wrote two years after the event; say the 1892 history dates it a year later"
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "C31",
   "a": "Laid out and completed by the Columbus Street Railway Company in 1896, leased in 1899; nothing about 1880",
   "a_source": "S5",
   "b": "Originally The Villa, opened as an amusement park in 1899 after the Dussenbury brothers bought it, closed 1938 (S10); operated from 1880 to 1939 (S11)",
   "b_source": "S10 and S11",
   "printed": "print both and give no single opening or closing year; the three publishers agree only that something changed hands about 1899"
  },
  {
   "claim_id": "C4",
   "a": "Alonson Bull laid out the first lots in 1846 or 1847",
   "a_source": "S1",
   "b": "Thomas Bull, a Methodist minister, bought the land in the early 1800s and his son Alanson built the trade businesses (S8); Thomas Bull bought the land in 1813 and offered free houses and shops (S13)",
   "b_source": "S8 and S13",
   "printed": "print both, attributed; the three accounts agree on the Bull family and on High Street and disagree on which Bull and which decade"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "id": "S1",
   "publisher": "Williams Brothers",
   "title": "History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio, Clinton Township villages, pages 408 to 409, and North Columbus, pages 567 to 568",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyoffrankli0000vari/historyoffrankli0000vari_djvu.txt",
   "published": "1880"
  },
  {
   "id": "S2",
   "publisher": "Jacob H. Studer",
   "title": "Columbus, Ohio: Its History, Resources, and Progress, increase in extent of territory, page 98, and the fire department chapter, Wells and Cisterns, page 136",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/columbusohioitsh00stud/columbusohioitsh00stud_djvu.txt",
   "published": "1873"
  },
  {
   "id": "S3",
   "publisher": "Alfred E. Lee",
   "title": "History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio, volume II, street transportation pages 309 to 313 and streets, sewers and parks pages 531 to 533",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcityofc02leea/historyofcityofc02leea_djvu.txt",
   "published": "1892"
  },
  {
   "id": "S4",
   "publisher": "Alfred E. Lee",
   "title": "History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio, volume I, schools chapter",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcityofc01leea/historyofcityofc01leea_djvu.txt",
   "published": "1892"
  },
  {
   "id": "S5",
   "publisher": "Osman Castle Hooper",
   "title": "History of the City of Columbus, Ohio, street railway and biographical sections",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcityofc00hoop/historyofcityofc00hoop_djvu.txt",
   "published": "1920"
  },
  {
   "id": "S6",
   "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
   "title": "Twenty-eighth Annual Report, report on proposed private sewer and sewage treatment plant in Clinton Township, near Columbus, pages 470 to 471",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/annualreportofst1913ohio/annualreportofst1913ohio_djvu.txt",
   "published": "1913"
  },
  {
   "id": "S7",
   "publisher": "Ohio State Board of Health",
   "title": "Thirteenth Annual Report, letter of Felix A. Jacobs, Director of Public Improvements, Columbus, dated April 20, 1898, page 89",
   "url": "https://archive.org/download/annualreportofst1898ohio/annualreportofst1898ohio_djvu.txt",
   "published": "1898"
  },
  {
   "id": "S8",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus",
   "title": "Clintonville Neighborhood Plan, adopted by Columbus City Council March 2, 2009, introduction and history pages 2 to 4, natural environment page 25",
   "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/files/sharedassets/city/v/1/building-and-zoning/bzs-boards-and-commissions/planning-document-library/clintonville-neighborhood-plan-2009.pdf",
   "published": "2009-03-02"
  },
  {
   "id": "S9",
   "publisher": "United States Bureau of the Census",
   "title": "U.S. Census of Population: 1950, Volume III, Census Tract Statistics, Chapter 13, Columbus, Ohio and Adjacent Area (Bulletin P-D13): comparability panel page 6, Table 1 page 7, Table 3 page 25, and the map Part 1, Tracts in Columbus city",
   "url": "https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-3/41557421v3p1ch8.pdf",
   "published": "1952"
  },
  {
   "id": "S10",
   "publisher": "Ohio Memory, a program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio",
   "title": "Columbus Bicentennial: Amusement Parks of the Past, by Lily Birkhimer, Digital Projects Coordinator, Ohio History Connection",
   "url": "https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/735",
   "published": "2012-06-29"
  },
  {
   "id": "S11",
   "publisher": "WOSU Public Media",
   "title": "Columbus Neighborhoods, Clintonville",
   "url": "https://devcolumbusneighborhoods.osu.edu/neighborhood/clintonville/",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S12",
   "publisher": "Clinton Township, Franklin County, Ohio",
   "title": "A History of Clinton Township",
   "url": "https://www.clintontownship.org/193/History",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S13",
   "publisher": "Clintonville Historical Society",
   "title": "Clintonville Historical Society home page",
   "url": "https://www.clintonvillehistoricalsociety.org/",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S14",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus",
   "title": "Blueprint Clintonville Area Projects, Blueprint Capital Improvement Projects",
   "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Business-Development/Capital-Improvement-Projects/Blueprint-CIPs/Blueprint-Clintonville-Area-Projects",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S15",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus",
   "title": "Blueprint Columbus, Clintonville Area",
   "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Services/Public-Utilities/About-Public-Utilities/Office-of-Sustainability/Blueprint-Columbus/Clintonville-Area",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S16",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus",
   "title": "Blueprint Columbus, Sustainability at Columbus Water and Power",
   "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Services/Columbus-Water-Power/About-Columbus-Water-Power/Sustainability-at-Columbus-Water-Power/Blueprint-Columbus",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S17",
   "publisher": "National Park Service",
   "title": "National Register of Historic Places locations map service, points layer 0 and polygons layer 1, cultural resources",
   "url": "https://mapservices.nps.gov/arcgis/rest/services/cultural_resources/nrhp_locations/MapServer/1/query",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S18",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus",
   "title": "Historic Resources Commission By-Laws, Article I and Article VIII",
   "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/files/sharedassets/city/v/1/building-and-zoning/bzs-boards-and-commissions/planning-boards-and-commissions/historic-resources-commission-bylaws.pdf",
   "published": "undated"
  },
  {
   "id": "S19",
   "publisher": "Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus Memory",
   "title": "Beechwold the Beautiful, a pamphlet of the Beechwold Realty Company, item 151966",
   "url": "https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/memory/id/151966/",
   "published": "1915 circa"
  },
  {
   "id": "S20",
   "publisher": "City of Columbus",
   "title": "Historic Preservation and Design Review: Historic Resources Commission",
   "url": "https://www.columbus.gov/Business-Development/Building-Zoning-Services/Boards-and-Commissions/Historic-Preservation-Design-Review-Boards-Commissions-Panels/Historic-Resources-Commission",
   "published": "undated"
  }
 ]
}