Talk:Clintonville, Ohio

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[edit] Druid Street in the Crestview Addition of Clintonville

I lived on the Crestiew block between Calumet and Druid for many years. The abstract for the house (from 1919) showed the original platts for the Crestiew Addtion from Aracadia up to Weber. Interestingly, Druid street was originally named Dresden, but the name appears to have been changed sometime after World War I, possibly to distance any association with the east German city of the same name. If so, then it seems perhaps unlikely that Mathias Armbruster would have named Druid street originally, at least given the probable timeline.

I raise this issue for two reasons:

(1) There may be a factual fallacy of attributing Druid street to Armbruster. For further information see the Clintonville website at: http://www.clintonville.com/history/h_street.html

(2) The re-naming of the street from Dresden to Druid seems historically interesting in its own right, particularly if it ties in with any broader post-war de-germanification in the area.

[edit] I couldn't find the plaque

"One of the curiosities of the community is a plaque in the sidewalk at the corner of Torrence and Brevoort reading "On This Site in 1897 Nothing Happened."" says the article, but I couln't find the plaque. Did I just miss it or is there no such thing? --Seth.josephson 01:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

-It's definately there, its embeddened in the sidewalk next to the stop sign on the west corner