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Founded" in 1847, Clintonville is a vibrant Columbus community of 28,000 residents residing in more than 80 differing subdivisions.  

Well, the Clintonville/Beechwold area of Columbus is also a very interesting place. Is there even any places by that name? You see neither "Clintonville" nor "Beechwold" ever existed as political or formally recognized entities.  Thus it is difficult for even Realtors to know exactly what to tell someone, especially if they are out of town. As a matter of fact the Clintonville area is made up of parts of two zip codes, 43202, near The Ohio State University and 43214 further North.

Here is what Paul Bingle has to say about the Clintonville, Beechwold area and history. You can read more at  http://www.clintonville.org

The story begins in the 1800s, with the creation of Franklin County and its Clinton Township.  In 1847, the US Post Office employed a postmaster to open a post office in the center of Clinton Township, near the corner of Oakland Park Avenue and the former Sandusky Turnpike, a plank covered toll road that we today know as High Street.  The post office was designated as "Clintonville", recognizing the center of the township and the hamlet of a few dozen homesteads.

By the early 1900s, Columbus residents, a majority of whom lived downtown, along with professors from the new Ohio State University, began to build summer homes in the areas around the ravines and the river.  Visitors were lured into the country to enjoy the Olentangy Amusement, and later, the short lived Columbus Zoo Amusement Park (where the "Old" Beechwold Subdivision is today).  With the arrival of the automobile, developers turned the area farms and woodlots into more than 80 subdivisions - eventually constructing thousands of new homes.

During the 1940s, as the area's population expanded northward, towards Rathbone (now Morse) Road, a new northern branch of the Post Office was created, being designated as the Beechwold Post Office, recognizing the clustering of businesses in the area north of the Overbrook Ravine, along High Street - then State Route 23.

The southern Clintonville business area had its drug stores, groceries, banks, hardware store, auto service stations, churches, and theater.  The northern area also had its own business clustering.  Nearly a mile of residences lined High Street in-between, including the large Fuller Farm (today's Whetstone Park) and the Indian Springs Golf Course, east of High Street at Henderson Road.  Residents naturally adopted the names "Clintonville" and "Beechwold" to designate their local neighborhoods.

By the 1950s, the City of Columbus had annexed all of the area into the City, erasing any formal separation between the two business centers.

In late 1974, the City of Columbus created the "Clintonville Area Commission", designating its governance area (south: the Glen Echo Ravine, west: the Olentangy River, north: the City's border with the unincorporated Sharon Township and the City of Worthington, east: the Big Four Railroad).  Although the CAC's name includes the word "area" - as time passed, most residents within the geographical area of the CAC's oversight, including residents north of Clinton Township, believed that they resided in "Clintonville".  Thus the imaginary boundaries grew.