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>>> THERE ARE MANY WAYS WE MEMORIALIZE OUR LOVED ONES TODAY, THROUGH PHOTOS, WRITTEN WORDS AND OF COURSE, PHYSICAL MONUMENTS.

IT'S PRETTY EASY TO DO THAT THESE DAYS, BUT THROUGHOUT HISTORY PEOPLE HAVE NOT HAD THE MEANS TO MAINTAIN THEIR ANCESTORS' HISTORY.

PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO LOOK AT HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF MEMORIALS LEFT BEHIND.

IN OUR FIRST STORY A GROUP OF STUDENTS RESEARCHED AFRICAN-AMERICAN BURIALS AT GREENLAWN CEMETERY IN COLUMBUS.

THEIR PURPOSE WAS TO DISCOVER HOW GENEALOGY AND HISTORIC RESEARCH COULD COME TOGETHER TO FURTHER EDUCATE STUDENTS AS THEIR ROLE IN PUBLIC HISTORIANS AND STORY TELLERS.

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>>> HE WAS BORN FREE IN 1775 AND WAS ONE OF THE CHILDREN OF THE FIELDS FAMILY.

EZEKIEL FIELDS MOVED TO SOUTHERN COLUMBUS AROUND 1828.

HE MUST HAVE BEEN IN HIS LATE 20s OR EARLY 30s AROUND THEN.

HE WAS A CIRCUIT WRITER MEANING HE WOULD PERFORM MINISTRY DUTIES IN RURAL CHURCHES, THINGS LIKE MARRIAGES, BAPTISMS.

>> I TEACH AMERICAN HISTORY TO TENTH GRADERS IN FORT HAYES.

PART OF THAT HISTORY IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY.

>> IN THE EARLY 1800s, OHIO ACQUIRED FREED PEOPLE OF COLOR TO BE LEGALLY REGISTERED AND THEY COULDN'T SETTLE IN OHIO AND THEY HAD A BOND OF $500 AND THEY HAD TWO CITIZENS VOUCH FOR THEIR CHARACTER AND $500 IN THE 1800s WAS NOT EASY TO COME BY.

IT'S AROUND $8,000 TO $10,000 IN TODAY'S MONEY.

>> WE BRING STUDENTS OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND INTO THE COMMUNITY TO BRING NOT ONLY COLUMBUS HISTORY ALIVE, BUT IN DOING SO, BRING AMERICAN HISTORY ALIVE.

PERHAPS SHEDDING NEW LIGHT ON HOW THEY PERCEIVE THEIR OWN COMMUNITY TO REALIZE THAT IT HAS A DEEPER, RICHER HISTORY AND A DEEPER, RICHER TASK.

>> IN THE 1830s AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE COLUMBUS CHURCH SEPARATED AND FORMED THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH AND THAT'S WHEN EZEKIEL FIELDS BECAME THE MINISTER AND THE SECOND CHURCH SPLIT INTO MEMBERSHIPS AND ONE OF THOSE MEMBERSHIPS WAS SOLELY DEDICATED TO CARRYING OUT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.

>> I AM A MEMBER OF THE JEAN LOGICAL SOCIETY AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTERESTS GROUP.

SINCE 2016 OUR GROUP HAS BEEN DOING RESEARCH ON AFRICAN-AMERICANS, THE PIONEERS.

>> THIS IS WILBUR KING, HE WAS BORN IN 1866 DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

HIS FATHER WAS A SHARPSHOOTER FOR THE UNION ARMY ANY DIED IN THE WAR.

THE MYTH FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO DO RESEARCH IS THAT WE WERE NOT INCLUDED ON THE CENSUS AND WE WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE HISTORY BOOKS.

THAT'S A MYTH.

AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE INCLUDED ON CENSUS.

WE MAY HAVE BEEN UNDERREPRESENTED.

>> KING BECAME A LAWYER IN 1896.

HIS SKILLS WERE SO WIDELY RECOGNIZED THAT THE OHIO SUPREME COURT WAIVED THE CUSTOMARY PROBATION PERIOD REQUIRED OF NEW LAWYERS MEANING HE COULD IMMEDIATELY START PRACTICING LAW.

>> WE DECIDED TO DO A WALKING TOUR USING HIGH SCHOOL KIDS AND WOULD THEY LIKE TO HELP US BECOME PUBLIC HISTORIANS AND THEIR RESPONSE HAS BEEN VERY POSITIVE AND OVERWHELMING.

>> HE WAS BORN IN 1855 IN VIRGINIA AS A SLAVE.

GRAYS WAS KNOWN AS A BUFFALO SOLDIER, A NAME GIVEN TO DESCRIBE THE CURLY HAIR AND SHINING SPIRIT.

>> AND THE STORIES STARTED COMING OUT AND THEY WERE VARIED AND RICHER THAN I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.

>> THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS A GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO REALLY DOES CARE ABOUT OUR HISTORY.

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>> NEXT, TO POINDEXTER'S LOT THERE'S A BENCH WHICH UNDER IT ARE BRICKS SAVED FROM THE POINDEXTER VILLAGE.

THESE BRICKS WERE LAY BY STUDENTS AND THE TEACHER WHICH IS POIGNANT BECAUSE POINDEXTER VILLAGE WAS THE FIRST PUBLIC HOUSING AND APPOINTED BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION IS OUR HIGH SCHOOL'S MOTIVATION TO DO THIS BECAUSE NOT ANYONE WOULD GO FOR SUMMER BREAK AND CHOOSE TO COME OUT HERE IN THE HOT, SWEATY DAYS.

I CHOSE TO DO THIS BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING.

I'M INTERESTED IN IT AND I'M MOTIVATED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TASKS AND MOTIVATED TO LEARN ABOUT U.S. HISTORY MORE.

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>> WASHINGTON TOWNSEND, HE WAS ACTUALLY THE SLAVE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ANDREW JACKSON AND HE ESCAPED AROUND THE AGE OF 17.

HE HEARD ABOUT A NEW UNIVERSITY THAT WAS BEING STARTED WHICH WAS THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, AND HE APPLIED AS THE ROLE OF CUSTODIAN WHICH HE GOT HIRED TO AND HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST 39 PEOPLE TO WORK AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.

HE WAS ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD, CLOSE FRIENDS WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY AND THEY WOULD OFTEN BE SEEN HAVING REALLY DEEP AND MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS.

>> THE QUESTION THAT WE CAN ANSWER THROUGH THIS PROJECT IS THAT AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE DOCUMENTED AND WE CAN RESEARCH THEM AND YOU CAN GET THE BEAUTY OF THEIR LIVES AND THE WORK THAT THEY PROVIDE.

SO YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT EMPLOYMENT.

YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THE CHURCH HISTORY.

YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT THEM THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL NETWORKS AND I THINK IN THE STORIES YOU HEARD TODAY THOSE THINGS HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTED IN THAT WAY.

>> AT THE TIME WASHINGTON TOWNSEND PASSED AWAY THE PRESIDENT HAD ALREADY PASSED AWAY, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S THE ONLY GRAVE THAT'S, LIKE, RISEN HERE AND THE SON FELT LIKE IT WAS NEEDED BECAUSE HE WAS SO IMPORTANT TO THE UNIVERSITY TO GIVE HIM THIS GRAVE AND HE HAD PAID FOR IT OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET.

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>> THE EARLIEST BURIAL OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESIDENT IF GREENLAWN WAS OF ARTHUR BOKE.

HE WAS BORN JANUARY 19, 1803, AND HAD BEEN LEFT BY HIS MOTHER AS A NEWBORN WITH SARAH SULLIVAN.

HIS MOTHER WAS A FUGITIVE SLAVE FLEEING CAPTURE THROUGH THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.

SARAH RAISED BABY ARTHUR WITH HER SONS JOSEPH, WILLIAM AND MICHAEL.

>> I WAS IMPRESSED BECAUSE IT TAKES STRENGTH TO GET OUT AND SHARE.

YOU ARE IN THOSE FORMATIVE YEARS.

YOU'RE NOT SURE ABOUT THAT AND IT'S GREAT EXERCISE TO BE ABLE TO STUDY SOMETHING AND THEN PRESENT IT AND TO PRESENT IT FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE.

THEY'RE PUTTING VALUE ON THEIR OWN THOUGHTS AND OWN PROCESSES.

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NOT AT ALL.

WILLIAM LOOKS AT HIS SON AND HE THOUGHT OF ARTHUR AS A BROTHER.

HE LOVED HIM TO DEATH AND WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HIM.

THEY PERSONALIZED IT AND BROUGHT THE PEOPLE ALIVE.

I THINK AS GENEALOGISTS THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO HAPPEN AND WE WANT THE FAMILY NARRATIVE TO BE TOLD, BUT WE WANT IT TO BE TOLD IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SETTING AND THE TIME PERIOD.

I REMEMBER AMIRAH WAS SAYING WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT ARTHUR SHE MENTIONED THAT WE LOVED HIM AND SAW HIM AS A BROTHER, AND I THINK THAT'S THE KIND OF NARRATIVE THAT YOU WANT.

>> ARTHUR DIED BEFORE GREENLAWN WAS ESTABLISHED AND HIS BODY WAS MOVED TO GREENLAWN FROM ANOTHER CEMETERY ALONG WITH LUCAS SULLIVAN AND FAMILY MEMBERS.

>> I THINK FOR THEM TO HAVE THEIR EYES OPENED TO ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING, THE IMPORTANT THING ABOUT DEALING WITH WHAT I CALL DIFFICULT HISTORY AND THAT IS A BRANCH OF HISTORY IS MAYBE NOT THE CONCLUSION THAT YOU'RE GOING TO COME UP WITH, BUT IT'S THE QUESTIONS YOU ASKED TO GET THERE AND THE AWARENESS THAT YOU'LL DEVELOP AND THAT TO ME IS REALLY WHAT CRITICAL THINKING IS ALL ABOUT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE ALL WANT AND CHOSEN TO BE IS CRITICAL !

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>> RECENTLY, THE HOPEWELL EARTHWORKS SITE HERE IN OHIO WERE DESCRIBED AS WORLD HERITAGE SITES WHICH IS A BIG DEAL.

EVEN THOUGH THE EARTHWORKS HAVE BEEN AROUND THERE'S SO MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT THEM.

WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO TAKE A WALKING TOUR AROUND ONE OF THE SITES TO TALK ABOUT THE ANCIENT CULTURE SO FAR.

YOU KNOW, I CAN GET USED TO TAKING TOURS FROM THE COMFORT OF MY OWN COUCH.

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>> GOOD MORNING.

MY NAME IS RANGER MYRA AND WELCOME TO HOPEWELL HIFT EARTHWORKS HISTORICAL PARK.

WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE HOPEWELL CULTURE AND WHAT WE KNOW OF IT IS JUST THE NAME.

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>> ARCHAEOLOGISTS DECIDED THERE'S A SET OF UNIQUE FEATURES THAT THIS COUNTRY, AND IT NEEDED A NAME AND THEY DECIDED TO NAME IT THE HOPEWELL CULTURE AFTER WHAT THEY STUDIED.

IT'S NOT WHAT THEY CALLED THEMSELVES.

THIS IS A PREHISTORIC CULTURE, 2,000 YEARS AGO.

THE HOPEWELL CULTURE INFLUENCE WAS THE EASTERN UNITED STATES.

IT WAS BASICALLY A BIG, RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT.

SO NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME PEOPLE SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGES, BUT IMPORTANT ENOUGH THAT THEY WANTED TO TRAVEL TO A CERTAIN PLACE TO BE A PART OF THIS CULTURE.

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>> AS WE'RE WALKING YOU WILL NOTICE THE WALL THAT GOES ALONG WITH US.

ALL OF THIS WAS MADE BY HUMAN HANDS.

WE'VE CREATED A WORD CALLED A SQURCLE.

THE ROUNDED SHAPE AND WE CALL IT A SQUIRCL.

EARTHWORKS IS THE SHAPE THAT WE REFER TO AND THE MOUND IN THE MIDDLE AND YOU HEAR THE NAME A LOT, THE EARTHWORKS VERSUS MOUNDS AND IT WAS USED FOR AROUND 400 YEARS.

SO FROM 0 TO 400 IS BASICALLY WHEN WE'RE THINKING THEY WERE ACTIVE.

THEY SAY THERE ARE ABOUT 24 ROUNDS AND NOT ALL OF THEM ARE VISIBLE ANYMORE.

THE OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT IS THE STRANGE BLOB SHAPES ON THE OUTSIDE AND THEY'RE BORROW PITS.

YOU BORROW THE MATERIAL THAT WAS IN THERE BUILD SOME OF THE MOUNDS HERE AND THE OTHER INTERESTING THING THEY FOUND IS THAT IT WAS LINED WITH CLAY AND THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HOLDING WATER, AND SO THE QUESTION IS WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS WATER?

SOME PEOPLE THINK IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN FOR CLEANSING PURPOSES PRIOR TO ENTERING THIS AREA BECAUSE IT WAS A CEREMONIAL SITE.

OTHERS THINK IT'S JUST LIKE A REFLECTING POOL, ADDING TO THE CONNECTION OF THE SKY, THE LAND AND EARTH BELOW AND THIS IS WHERE IT ALL COMES TOGETHER BECAUSE SOME OF THE CEREMONIES THAT THEY DID HERE WERE FUNERALS AND THEY WERE SAYING GOOD-BYE TO PEOPLE.

I KIND OF LIKE THE VIEW FROM THIS CORNER AND IT COVERS A WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS THAT YOU CAN'T SEE FROM ANY OTHER AREAS AND SITES AND 2,000 YEARS AGO THEY WOULD HAVE CEREMONIES AND THEY DECIDED WE WERE DONE AND THEY DESTROYEDED IT BY EITHER BREAKING IT DOWN AND THEY STARTED THE MOUND BUILDING PROCESS AND ERECTED A NEW !

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>> I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT WATER, NECESSARY FOR LIFE, NECESSARY FOR FARMING, BUT ALSO THEY USED IT FOR TRAVELING.

SO THIS IS THE RIVER HERE THAT'S FLOWING FROM THE NORTH, FLOWING SOUTH.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO ENTRANCES TO THE EARTHWORKS AND GENERALLY WE LIKE FOLKS TO ENTER FROM THIS SIDE IF POSSIBLE BECAUSE THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE HIGHWAY.

PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN TRAVELING ALONG THE RIVER SO WE FEEL THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE NATURAL ENTRANCE THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THIS AREA.

BELOW GROUND IS WHERE WE FIND A LOT OF THE ITEMS AND SOME OF THE ITEMS, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THEM, THIS IS WHERE THE RIVER COMES INTO PLACE AND THEY ITEMS LIKE A SIT-IN.

WE NEED A VOLCANO FOR THAT AND THEY PIPED IT TO YELLOWSTONE AREA AND HERE ARE SEASHELLS THAT THEY FOUND AND THIS WAS NOT FROM OHIO.

TOPPER WAS SOMETHING COMMONLY FOUND AND THAT WAS FROM THE NORTH IN THE U.P.

MICA, THIS WOULD BE THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK IT WAS A TRADE.

WHAT ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND IS THERE ARE NOT A LOT OF HOPEWELL GOODS ALONG THE ROUTE.

IF THEY WERE TRADING THINGS YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND THAT ALONG THE WAY.

WE HAD A LARGE AMOUNT NORTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

NO ONE HAS THAT.

HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN THAT?

>> PAR OF IS THE JOURNEY AND WHAT WAS DONE ON THE POWER OF THE MATERIAL ITSELF AND YOU GO ON THE VOYAGE AND YOU BRING IT BACK AND THAT'S WHERE THE POWER COMES FROM IS HAVING THAT CONNECTION PLACE.

>> IF YOU GO TO THAT LOCATION THERE'S'S LOT OF POWER IN THAT.

THE SQUIRCLE IS THE LAST THING THAT WAS BUILT HERE.

THEY DID THE MOUND BUILDING PROCESS AND THIS IS KIND OF AN IDEA OF WHAT THE BUILDINGS LOOKED LIKE AND THEN WHEN THEY WERE DONE THEY BROKE IT DOWN AND THEY STARTED THE MOUND BUILDING PROCESS, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE ONCE THEY WERE COMPLETELY DONE, THE MOUNDS WERE ALL BUILT AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY MORE BUILDINGS IN HERE AND THAT'S WHEN THEY STARTED THE BUILDING OF THE SQUIRCLE AROUND HERE AND THEY WERE MEANT TO STAND FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND THEY DID.

THEY CERTAINLY DID.

OKAY.

WE CAN KEEP WALKING AND JUST TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW, THIS SITE IS ABOUT 13 ACRES IN HERE.

TO UNDERSTAND, THEY SAY IT'S ABOUT TEN FOOTBALL FIELDS THAT YOU CAN FIT WRITH COME THE SQUIRCLE.

THIS IS A MOUND THAT'S NOT A MOUND ANYMORE, AND WE PUT THE POSTS HERE AND WHAT THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND IS WHEN THEY REMOVE THE LAY ERS OF MOUNDS THE DIRT WAS A DIFFERENT COLOR.

THEY REALIZED THERE WAS DECAY AND THERE WAS A PATTERN.

THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN AN ENTRANCE AND ANOTHER ENTRANCE ON THE OTHER SIDE AND THE SQUIRCLE SHAPE.

ALL OF THE BUILDINGS HAD A SQUURCLE SHAPE.

THEY WERE ALL CREAMATIONS IN MOUND CITY.

THAT LARGEST MOUND WAS DUG DOWN AT LEAST SIX FEET DEEP AND THERE WAS A CREMATORIUM AND THERE WAS A RAMP THAT YOU COULD GO DOWN TO AND THAT'S WHERE THEY WOULD BRING THE REMAINS OF PEOPLE.

WHO WERE THE PEOPLE WHO WERE LEFT IN THIS AREA?

THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS BELIEVE THEY WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE VERY IMPORTANT AND THEY WERE TRAVELING FROM FAR DISTANCES AND THIS WAS THE PLACE TO GO IF YOU WERE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.

THIS IS WHERE YOU BROUGHT THAT PERSON TO SEE THEIR FINAL GOOD-BYE.

SO WITH WE ARE THINKING IS PART OF THE REASON THAT FOLKS TRAVELED TO THIS AREA IT WASN'T JUST TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO SOMEONE.

IT WAS A PART TO BE A PART OF THE PROCESS AND IT WAS TO TRAVEL TO THIS AREA AND IT WAS BEING PART OF THAT.

>> SO WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT THERE ARE MORE THAN A HUNDRED HUMAN REMAINS AND THIS IS A SACRED SITE.

WE ASK FOLKS NEVER TO WALK ON THE MOUNDS OR SURROUNDING AREA, TO BE RESPECTFUL OF ANY CEMETERY YOU VISIT.

>>> IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO DELVE DEEP INTO HISTORY, A GREAT PLACE TO GO IS THE OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION.

THE LIBRARY OVER THERE IS FULL OF RECORDS DATING BACK TO THE EARLY DAYS OF OHIO HISTORY.

IN FACT, ONE FAMILY WANTED TO RESEARCH RECORDS ABOUT A RELATIVE WHO WAS AT THE HARE ORPHANS' HOME AND FOUND SOME OF THE RECORDS WERE STILL SEALED.

HISTORIAN DOREEN SAUER WENT TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY DO HAVE ACCESS TO.

HERE'S WHAT THEY FOUND.

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>> YOU HAVE THE BEGINNING OF A STORY THAT WE ARE HOPING TO SHARE SOME OTHER INFORMATION.

WE FOUND OUT ABOUT A RELATIVE OF YOURS.

SO WHY DON'T YOU START BY TELLING ME WHO THIS MYSTERY PERSON IS THAT YOU'RE INVESTIGATING?

>> MY FATHER WAS IN THE HARE ORPHANAGE.

HIS NAME WAS BYRON BLAKE AND HE WAS BORN IN 1927.

I KNOW THAT HE WAS IN AND OUT A COUPLE OF TIMES AND WAS IN FOSTER HOMES.

>> THIS WOULD BE MY HUSBAND, 61 YEARS AGO JUST BEFORE WE WERE MARRIED HE WANTED TO SHOW ME WHERE HE LIVED IN THE ORPHANAGE AND IT WAS OFF OF HIGH AND LANE AVENUE, AND IT WAS A DREARY DAY, I REMEMBER, AND I'M 22, 23 YEARS OLD, AND I'M CRYING AND IT WAS A STONE BUILDING AND IT SEEMED SO SAD.

AND I DID SAY TO HIM, I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THIS AGAIN BECAUSE IT SEEMS SO SAD.

AFTER HE PASSED AWAY I DECIDED ABOUT A YEAR AGO THAT I WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT ORPHANAGE.

PROBABLY MY ULTIMATE IS THAT I WOULD SEE HIS NAME WRITTEN DOWN THERE, BYRON T. BLAKE IN SOME RECORD KNOWING THAT HE WAS REGISTERED THERE.

>> THE STORY BEHIND IT IS FASCINATING BECAUSE IT'S SO OLD.

IT TURNS OUT THAT JACOB HARE WAS AN EARLY PIONEER IN COLUMBUS.

SO HE COMES IN COLUMBUS IN 1812, AND HE IS ABLE TO BUY ONE OF THE FIRST LOTS IN DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS.

SO HE BUYS CORNERS AND LOTS PROBABLY AROUND RICH AND HYDE STREET WHICH AS YOU KNOW IS IN THE MIDDLE OF HUGE DEVELOPMENT.

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>> WHAT I DIDN'T REALIZE LATER UNTIL I WENT INTO THE RECORDS IS HOW EXTENSIVE SOME OF THOSE LOTS WERE.

SO MR. HARE WAS ABLE TO PURCHASE LOTS THAT EVENTUALLY WOULD GO UP TO 4th STREET WHERE THE OLD CENTRAL MARKET WAS AND ALL OF THE WAY OUT TO MAIN STREET.

SO HE'S SITTING ON QUITE A CHUNK OF LAND.

SO WHEN MR. HARE ARRIVED IN COLUMBUS, HE'S ACTUALLY COMING IN BEFORE THERE IS COLUMBUS.

PART OF HIS FORTUNE MAY HAVE COME BECAUSE HE WAS AGE TO SELL TO THOSE PROPRIETORS TO PUT TOGETHER THE PACKAGE DEAL AND BUILD THE CAPITAL.

>> HERE HE IS IN THE CENTER OF TOWN AND AS THE OTHER HOTS COME INTO THE CITY AND THEY'RE BEING SOLD OFF AND PEOPLE ARE GUYING THE THINGS AND THAT WILL BE CRITICAL LATER WHEN THE ORPHANAGE WAS, BECAUSE IT'S A CONSTANT STREAM OF RENTALS.

HE IS DESCRIBED, THAT HE WAS PLAYING AND HIS INVESTMENTS TURNED OUT WELL AND BY THE INCREASED INVESTMENTS, AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS WORTH $50,000.

HE DIED IN THE CITY ON THE 3rd OF NOVEMBER 1860 IN THE 80th YEAR OF HIS AGE.

MR. HARE LEFT EIGHT OR NINE CHILDREN AND HE MADE NO REQUESTS IN HIS WILL.

HE ESTABLISHED AN ORPHANAGE AND DOESN'T LEAVE ANYTHING TO HIS CHILDREN.

LATER, RECORDS WILL CONTINUE TO SAY THAT THEY WERE OKAY.

THEY HAD MADE THEIR MONEY.

SO FOR WHATEVER REALLY, DEEP PERSONAL REASON HE HAD ABOUT CREATES THIS ORPHANAGE IS SORT OF A MYSTERY.

COLUMBUS HAS A NUMBER OF ORPHANS.

WE'RE TALKING FROM 1840s TO 1860s UNTIL THE CIVIL WAR.

MANY OF THE CHILDREN ACTUALLY HAVE ONE PARENT AND I KNOW FROM OTHER RECORDS I'VE SEEN IT'S THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER DIES AND THERE ARE FIVE VERY YOUNG CHILDREN AND HE CAN'T TAKE CARE OF THEM SO HE TAKES THEM TO AN ORPHANAGE AND THIS GENTLEMAN BRINGS A MILK COW.

THAT'S ALL HE CAN GIVE.

MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1861, AT 7 1/2 O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING, THE CIVIL WAR IS RIGHT ABOUT RAGING RIGHT ABOUT THERE, AND THEY ARE GOING TO ESTABLISH WHAT WILL BE THE HARE CHARITY FUND COMMITTEE.

THIS WILL NOW EXIST FROM THIS PERIOD OF TIME ALL OF THE WAY INTO THE 1950s.

THE CHARITY WAS SUPPORTED NOT JUST BY THE CITY AND THE FROM SEEDS OF MR. HARE AND THE RENTALS AND OTHER THINGS, BUT THESE ARE WONDERFUL CHECKS THAT PEOPLE WERE SENDING IN AND BUSINESSES.

>> THIS IS A LOT OF MONEY.

$2300 IN 1863.

>> WHEN YOU THINK THERE IS A WAR GOING ON THE AMOUNT OF SUPPORT THAT IS POURING OUT FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ORPHANAGE WAS EXTRAORDINARY.

THERE WAS A PREVIOUS EAST SIDE THAT WAS USED FOR THE HARE ORPHANAGE AND WHAT WE FOUND IS TO TALK ABOUT THE PROPERTY ON COLLAR STREET.

WHATEVER THE EXISTING HOUSE IS IS NOW BEING PURCHASED AND THIS IS THE ONE THAT'S REPORTED IN THE PAPER IN 1907 HAVING THE FRONT LAWN.

19th CENTURY CHILDREN COULDN'T PLAY IN PARKS.

THEY WERE EXPECTED TO PLAY IN THE STREET AND THE PARKS WERE FOR ADULTS TO RIDE THEIR CARRIAGES THROUGH.

THERE IS SO LITTLE INFORMATION, THAT IN 1906 THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN THE HOME FOR THE YEAR WAS 32, AND THE CHILDREN'S RECORDS THEMSELVES ARE SEALED AND THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY RECORDED WHO HAD BROUGHT THEM INTO THE ORPHANAGE, WHAT WAS THE, PERHAPS, CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THEY WERE THERE.

IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE IN 1929, THE FATHER HAS BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS.

THERE ARE FIVE GIRLS, THREE BOYS.

THEY ARE LIVING ON THE WEST SIDE OF COLUMBUS AND THERE IS ANOTHER YEAR -- WHO THE MOTHER HAS BEEN DEAD FOR A YEAR.

TWO BOYS AND ONE GIRL IN THE FAMILY AND THE FATHER WORKED FOR THE RAILROAD AND WAS TRANSFERRED OUT OF COLUMBUS TO OHIO.

ALTHOUGH THESE CHILDREN HAVE ENTERED IN 29, 28, 32, 31, WE ARE NOW IN THE DEPRESSION AND WE KNOW OF THE FALL IN THE STOCK MARKET IN '29.

>> OH, MY GOSH.

THERE IT IS.

>> READ IT.

>> 12633, MOTHER, UNMARRIED, WORKS AT STATE HOSPITAL.

RECORD NOT SUBMITTED TO HARE.

>> I TURNED THE PAGE.

>> HE WAS 5 YEARS OLD.

>> HE WAS STILL 6 HERE.

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>> SO THIS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AN OFFICIAL RECORD.

THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN EMBEDDED IN A LETTER.

SO THE OFFICIAL LETTER IS PROBABLY SEALED AND WOULD BE FOUND IN THE ARCHIVES.

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>> IN ESSENCE, THE HARE ORPHANAGE IS BECOMING A CONCERN OF BUREAUCRACY.

IT IS, IN ITSELF, TAKING UP A GREAT DEAL OF THE CITY'S TIME.

BETWEEN THAT AND THERE IS A BIG DISCUSSION AND CHILD WELFARE ABOUT FOSTER CARE.

IS AN ORPHANAGE THE BEST PLACE FOR CHILDREN?

BY THE TIME WE GET TO 1935 THE CITY ITSELF IS NOW MOVING?

OTHER BUREAUCRATIC WAYS AND ONE OF THE WAYS IS THE REGULATION OF DAY CARE AND WITH DAY CARE THEY INSIST THERE HAVE TO BE WALLS THAT HAVE FIRE RETARDANT IN THEM AND THE ORPHANAGE ITSELF, IS, BOW CITY'S OWN RECOMMENDATION, THE CITY IS OBSOLETE AND POSSIBLY A DANGER TO THE CHILDREN AND IT'S CLOSE BY ABOUT '57.

THE CITY HAS TO MAKE A DETERMINATION, WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS BUILDING AND THAT'S THE DECISION THAT WAS MADE TO GIVE IT TO BIG BROTHERS AND NOT BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

THE RECORDS ARE PUT INTO THE BASEMENT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS UNTIL THEY'RE FOUND WHICH IS RIGHT IN HERE.

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>> THANKS FOR BEING WITH US AND REMEMBER, YOU CAN CATCH ALL OUR EPISODES ON YOUTUBE OR COLUMBUSNEIGHBORHOODS.ORG, PLUS SEE OUR STORIES ON THE WOSU MOBILE APP AND YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

WE'LL SEE YOU BACK HERE NEXT WEEK ON "COLUMBUS !

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