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Doug Slusher wrote in to ask, How did Northridge Road in Clintonville get its name?

We asked Mary Rogers of the Clintonville Historical Society to tell the story.

The Northridge neighborhood was established in 1913 and it is developed by Ben and King Thompson.

But interestingly, it's on land that was owned by the Fuller family, which a lot of people up in Clintonville know the Fuller family name because that is the farm that became Whetstone Park.

What they don't know is that the Fuller family owned both sides of High Street and in 1903, they basically took what was to the east of High and created a neighborhood that they called Kennyotto, which is an Indian name.

I believe it means something along the lines of the snake eating its tail or something like that.

There's a couple other Kennyottos in the United States.

They name the street Fuller Avenue and Ellington, but they weren't very successful in selling the land.

So in 1913, they vacated the street names.

That means they erased them off the books of the county.

And Ben and King Thompson came along in May of 1913 and renamed those two streets Northridge and Chatham.

Now, the reason Thompson chose the name Northridge is because earlier that year there was a major flood that totally devastated the Franklinton area.

And it was a major selling point here in Columbus to be able to have building lots that were on high ground.

So the advertisements for Northridge talk about how this neighborhood is built on a ridge to the north of Columbus.

So that's where the name came from.

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