A fascinating and insightful look at a forgotten era in Columbus, Ohio's history, today the state's largest city with a robust and exciting past. Columbus, Ohio, an odd amalgam of the planned and the spontaneous, was founded on the banks of the Scioto River in 1812 as the new seat of this young state's government. Located in the wilderness of central Ohio, nearly equidistant to the real cities of Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo,...