Hartman Farm School House - Columbus, OH
N 39° 51.788 W 083° 00.226
17S E 328611 N 4414487
Quick Description: This old one room school house is located just south of Columbus, Ohio, USA, at the corner of Rathmell Road and US23 North.
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 12/4/2007 2:16:58 PM
Waymark Code: WM2Q09
Views: 81
Long Description:
This building was in use as a school from 1897 until roughly 1910,
after which it was used as a kind of town hall for some time. The
school served the families of the workers on what was once the
largest functioning farm in the United States: the Hartman Farm.
Around the turn of the century, most of the area that is now the
far south end of Columbus belonged to Dr. Samuel B. Hartman, who
became rich by selling a patent medicine called Peruna. This
building was once the entire Hamilton Township School district -- a
one-room school house serving all grades. Then, before 1910, it was
given over to local government use when the new school was built on
Rohr Road. After the farm shut down in the 1940s, the school house
was given to a loyal farm employee, who lived there with his family
until the mid-1960s. The old school house is now abandoned. Several
times it has been slated for destruction and each time private
groups have come forward preventing its destruction.
Address:
Intersection of Rathmell Road & US23 North
Columbus, OH USA
43207
Web Site: [Web Link]
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