Summit Street

i don't know how familiar you are with columbus, but it is sitting on the parcel where the 'fire exit' music venue was....then the fire department shut it down because it was about to collapse :lol: . it's also really close to the big hat that crosses over the road...and what cmh_downtown said

no. i prefer locally owned establishments(bars restaurants and music stores) to the gap. even if the area was a little rundown...don't expect to see me shopping there

oh.....and actually that picture isn't from the seneca hotel. the seneca hotel is on grant at broad. this photo is from nearly as far south as main st.

how did you get on top!?

yay! i think i'm in love with dayton... seriously.

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McConnelsville, Ohio population: 1,676. seat of morgan county. not a bad looking place for the size. and maybe the only place to have 3 double letters in the name New Lexington, Ohio population: 4,689. seat of perry county. nice courthouse. 6 pictures of a county seat...my new record lowest. i did four county seats today with a combined total population less than my census tract. but somehow i ended up taking 12 hours to do it :| whatever..here is lancaster's courthouse and goodnight

Elyria, Ohio population:55,953. seat of lorain county. (lorain the city is bigger though) the place where the sewing machine got a patent, the term hamburger was coined, the padded bicycle seat and the colored golf ball, the single headlighted car, and the rubber heel were invented. at least that's what they say. founded by Heman Ely in 1817. the courthouse had it's head chopped off! original courthouse(not my pic, obviously): would've definately been one of my favorites if it still looked like that. but here it is today. still not bad well, i just now found out about the old lorain county courthouse, so i'm too upset to do any commentary, so here is more elyria

Medina, Ohio population: 24,139. seat of medina county, which has 150000 people. surely none of that is because of cleveland... a city built around a square of a park. the kind where the roads make intersections at the corners, not meet on the sides of the perimeter. the courthouse is on the perimeter of the square, and is not the focal point of medina. okay, i don't know anything about medina, thats why i keep rambling above. originally named mecca, changed name to medina. i heard about 150 years ago someone kicked over a lamp and started a big fire here, but it stopped right in front of the courthouse...and that the city is known for beekeeping or something. gee, i can't even find much history on the internet either. here it is: the current courthouse the good courthouse and let's around walk the square... some jammin' in the gazebo whoa... i like this side the best

hamilton is one of those in between the two category cities. it has it's main street with a square right on that street. delaware i had thought of as a main street, with any intersections popping up as an addition, but the one street (sandusky st.?) is where the action is. dayton i'm baffled as to how to categorize it now, and i don't know enough about it's origins to put anything for it(i said intersection above, now disagree with myself)...it's probably too big for these options anyway...same thing with youngstown, cincinnati and toledo. i haven't been to eaton, so i can't comment on it, but xenia i thought of as an intersection with one corner a courthouse square...but not a square city, just a city also with a square (bellefontaine would also match the not a square city, but there is a courthouse square) for the true 'main street' towns, i'll say that marysville would qualify. nearly everything is on one street, and the courthouse is a few blocks off of it. sandusky's square is kind of offset by the lake being so close that they built between the courthouse and the lake all that stuff eighth and state said sounds good i think the best way to show an intersection example is mt. gilead, the square would be sidney, and marysville a main street now if only circleville would have kept it's original design :lol: a lot of these are too hard to classify... :( thanks for all the input.

yes, that is a median with flowers in it

i started talking about this in a photo thread, and thought to make it one of it's own. i've noticed a city can be grouped into 3 catagories: a square, a main street, or an intersection as the center of the town. (except toledo) the square surrounds either the courthouse or a park. an intersection is almost like a tiny square, and sometimes has a monument in the middle can anyone think of more to add or changes to put on here? is some of this wrong? am i crazy for even doing this? :lol: Square: chardon newark mansfield (a square with a street going through the middle) medina elyria columbus cleveland(like 5 squares) kenton troy warren mt vernon sidney Main Street: youngstown cambridge conneaut delaware findlay hamilton lebanon marion marysville millersburg wapokeneta lancaster circleville ashland akron london tiffin ravenna port clinton fremont lorain bowling green bellefontaine coshocton batavia wooster Intersection: upper sandusky dayton norwalk hillsboro mt gilead xenia washington c.h. new philadelphia jefferson bucyrus ?: zanesville painesville toledo sandusky springfield canton lima cincinnati

Wooster, Ohio population: 24,811. seat of wayne county. has the college of wooster. named for revolutionary war Brigadier-General David Wooster of Connecticut. courthouse built in 1878. wayne county has a large amish population too so there was a festival here too? come on, i'm getting sick of these things getting in my way :sad: . bad for me but i guess good for the cities. this one was their oktoberfest. schmidt's made it up here and blocked the courthouse for me street scene that's more like it anarchy sign on the courthouse!? those statues are crying they have no legs, so they didn't chase after the vandal :lol: on the square?...i'm sorry but its not really a square in the usual sense of a town square, just 4 streets on a grid...what i'm saying makes more sense if you see it (see bottom of post for more about this) board of education the clouds return the blue building looks pretty nice bringing people to downtown around the corner from main street the courthouse again natural foods store. thats gotta be because of the college nearby looks like a neat place okay, now more about the 'square' that they have. in visiting these county seats i've noticed there are mostly 3 kinds of layouts: the square(sidney, medina), the main street(marion, coshocton), and the intersection(hillsboro,mt. gilead). the squares are usually surrounding either the courthouse or a park, and the intersections sometimes have a monument or other small thing with a traffic circle in them. i feel that wooster is a main street type, even though they sometimes try to say they have a square :D anyone follow that? i'm gonna make a topic devoted to this

the pavlov music center is just a music store. can't help you on the mud puddle though.

maybe there's some rule saying that all counties get a minimum number of historical markers?....and thats all they could come up with. or the county blackmailed them for it...

cool!

New Philadelphia, ohio population: 17,056. seat of tuscarawas county. (tusk-a-row-uhs). battled dover(neighboring city) for county seat title back in 1808. named because the founder came from philadelphia. they planned the place based on things that philadelphia has. more can be read on the marker below.

Cambridge, Ohio population: 11,520. seat of guernsey county. home to john glenn, the astronaut and senator. and something about glass too.

lebanon, ohio population: 16,962. seat of warren county. has the golden lamb, the oldest inn in the state oooh, is that the courthouse? no, its town hall. the Golden Lamb. famous and popular. sorta like how montgomery has the rib inn there were people out too. just not in my pictures an old ice cream place. they have an apple festival and lotsa antiques stores and a bank. often the trees were uncooperative shops were aclosin' for the night oh no, the flowers are falling down! see....a bunch of trees more antiques cafe other things The knickerbocker gallery why not fix your clocks? signs the rundown area of downtown back to the golden lamb library something historical looking museum ok, the courthouse. one ought to scream say it ain't so when the story is told of the piece of junk they have now. once upon a time they had a good one. now its something off the highway far away from where it should be too. but downtown lebanon is very impressive. which makes the corthouse thing more confusing. maybe i put to much into the courthouse things. but don't expect a photo of it in here.(the reason for my 54 1/2 county seats done thing)

i just went to the browns game today....(free tickets) pretty fun, and the browns won. although i'm not a fan of them it was the fourth time in two weeks i've been in cleveland now :makot: and the buckeyes lost this weekend

Losantiville. oh wait, you mean they changed that name?... well then i'm all at a loss. i have been asleep since 1790. well i awoke by the river. at The north bend. wow, there's been some high water onto civilization, i stumble across this. one of the real skyline chili parlors left in existance. and there are hills everywhere and churches too and whatever that is too and holy crap! it's all coming back to me now...was it all a dream? no! it's just 1940 i went to city hall to ask what is going on wow, carew towers over all (except for the things outside the glass :D ) like music to my ears anybody need some soap? now let's go down to street level what a magical building! what? you mean i've been in cincinnati the whole time?

Erie, Pennsylvania population: 103,717. seat of erie county, which has 279,966

well, at the time i lived about a block from coldayman. one day he decided to get a gun, walk around to every house in the area and made people look at his website. so i did. okay, so not really. i was just looking at ssp and saw links to here