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Highway Chronicle Chapter V:
Population
Blossoms, County Surveyor Adopts Road Duties
Along
the bustling highways came a great wave of westward migration. Between 1830 and
1840, Franklin County’s population grew by nearly 70 percent from 14,741 to
25,049.
The
1842 county map shows a vast sea of farms, villages and township communities
encircling Columbus, all joined together by an evolving street and roadway
system.
It
was during this growth that the Franklin County Surveyor’s Office, which had
set many of the original property boundaries and roads, adopted the
responsibility of highway engineering. One of the first duties of the “county
engineer” was to represent the board of county commissioners in the review of
petitions requesting road construction.
Many
of these new thoroughfares, such as Agler Road, Havens Road, Henderson Road,
Lane Avenue, McCoy Road, Morse Road, Neil Avenue, Sullivant Avenue, Taylor Road
and Trabue Road, were named for Franklin County’s “first” families, and
became major components in the establishment of a countywide network of
contiguous roadways.
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