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One curious resident wrote in to ask about the history of the Colonial Hills neighborhood in Worthington.

Was it developed for workers during World War II?

We asked local historian Doreen Uhas Sauer to tell the story.

Colonial Hills was started as a very small little settlement, first conceived of in about 1927 by a private development company, but the plans were shelved and it never came back again for consideration until the late 1930s 40s, when it was obvious that war executives needed housing -- and I want to stress that-- because this is not for veterans, these are for people working in military essential jobs on the executive level, probably about when Curtiss-Wright airplanes were being made and they needed housing desperately.

So there were eventually 200 homes built in about 1942.

And then from there, it gradually grew and grew.

It was restricted to whites only by the 1938 deed put on by the original company, but never removed.

Later in the 1950s, probably another hundred homes were built.

So it depends on what corner of Colonial Hills you're standing in that can best explain when those houses came in.

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