Westerville, Ohio Westerville, Ohio Location of Westerville in Ohio Location of Westerville in Ohio Location of Westerville in Franklin County Location of Westerville in Franklin County Westerville is a town/city in Delaware and Franklin counties in the U.S.
Throughout the Antebellum era, a several homes in Westerville were stations on the Underground Railroad.
Benjamin Russell Hanby had moved to Westerville in 1849, at the age of sixteen, to enroll at Otterbein University. Hanby went on to write many familiar hymns and songs, among them "Darling Nelly Gray" (inspired by his compassion for Southern slaves), "Who is He in Yonder Stall?", and the Christmas favorite "Up On The Housetop".
His home in Westerville, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was dedicated as a exhibition in 1937 and is now owned by the Ohio Historical Society and managed locally by the Westerville Historical Society.
It is the only state memorial to a composer in the state of Ohio.
The League's Westerville command posts was given to the Westerville Public Library in 1973 and now serves as a exhibition attached to the library. After Prohibition ended, Westerville remained dry for most of the twentieth century. In 1916, Westerville became the first village (and second municipality) in Ohio to adopt a council-manager form of government, in which a town/city council makes policy but the town's administrative and many of its executive governmental functions are vested in an appointed, experienced manager.
In 2006 Michael's Pizza served the first beer in Uptown Westerville in over 70 years. Westerville is positioned at 40 7 25 N 82 55 17 W (40.123496, -82.921432). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.61 square miles (32.66 km2), of which 12.47 square miles (32.30 km2) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) is water. Shops lining State Street in uptown Westerville In the town/city the populace was spread out with 26.9% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 26.5% from 45 to 64, and 10.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
Other universities and universities in Westerville Ohio include Hondros College, Franklin University (branch), Dominion University, The Ohio State School of Cosmetology, Columbus State Westerville Center (branch) and Fortis College.
Westerville is served by the Westerville City School District (Franklin County, Ohio)|Westerville City School District.
The District operates three high schools: Westerville South High School, an International Baccalaureate School, which opened in 1960 as Westerville High School; Westerville North High School (opened 1975); and Westerville Central High School (opened 2003).
In addition, Westerville has four middle and sixteen elementary schools.
In the early days before the town's incorporation, Westerville was connected to Columbus by a plank road with a toll of ten cents. Today, Westerville borders Interstate 71 and Interstate 270 (the Columbus Outerbelt), expressways that connect it with Columbus and other suburbs.
Via the interstates, central Westerville is 16 miles (26 km) from downtown Columbus and 12 miles (19 km) from Port Columbus International Airport, Central Ohio's major terminal for air passengers.
State Route 3, the "3-C Highway" which joins Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, is the chief north-south thoroughfare of the old town center, known as Uptown Westerville, through which it is called State Street.
Streetcars plied the avenues of Westerville from the late nineteenth century but service was discontinued in 1929. Today, Westerville offers little in the way of enhance transportation.
The town/city itself operates no enhance buses, but the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) serves Westerville with five bus lines. According to Westerville's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 3 Westerville City School District 2,231 8 City of Westerville 834 Cheryl&Co., originally and popularly known as Cheryl's Cookies, was established in Westerville in 1981 and is still based there.
The American Ceramic Society, a non-profit experienced organization established in 1899 in Columbus, has its command posts in Westerville.
Westerville is served by the Westerville Public Library.
Westerville is served by the small-town journal This - Week Westerville News & Public Opinion, as well as by the newspapers of Columbus, including the daily Columbus Dispatch.
The Ohio to Erie Trail runs through Westerville and provides miles of maintained bike paths as part of the Heart of Ohio branch.
Westerville is home to a lesser and lesser-known Hoover Dam, where the Westerville Crew high school rowing team and the Ohio State University and Denison University sailing squads practice.
Central High School is further north than North High School, a fact featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in March 2008. Central High, Genoa Middle and Hawthorne, Fouse and Alcott Elementary are outside of town/city limits. Westerville was ranked #15 on Money magazine's list of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2009 and ranked #46 on the list in 2007. The Westerville Parks and Recreation Department has won the gold medal for Excellence in Parks and Recreation Management for Class IV in its last three years of eligibility (2001, 2007, and 2013), as a winner must wait five full years before applying again. Westerville was titled Sports Illustrated's "Sportstown Ohio" in 2003 as part of the magazine's 50th anniversary. On the musical comedy tv series Glee, Westerville is the locale for a fictional private school, Dalton Academy, home to the Dalton Academy Warblers, a rival show choir.
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Lin Rice, "Westerville Council set to hire town/city manager," Dispatch - Politics.com, Oct.
Mark Major, "Michael's uncorks Uptown liquor sales," Westerville News & Public Opinion, Jan.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Population of Civil Divisions Less than Counties" (PDF).
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"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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"Ohio History Central, Westerville".
"Central Ohio Transit Authority System Map" (PDF).
City of Westerville CAFR "2005 Ohio Public Library Statistics:Statistics by County and Town".
"'This - Week Westerville News & Public Opinion' to debut April 26".
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