Present-day West Columbus is a collective of neighborhoods born from the western banks of the Scioto River in what became Franklin County on April 30; 1803. The first settlement; Franklinton; was founded by Lucas Sullivant in 1797; platted two years after he received 6;000 acres in payment for surveying the central Ohio portion of the Virginia Military District. Later expansions included the areas of Sullivant�s Hill; Rome; and Camp Chase. While the first settlers were farmers and ex-soldiers; the land would also attract Quakers; rail men; real estate moguls; and manufacturers. The neighborhoods found success even though the Scioto River; which birthed the region; on multiple occasions threatened to wash them off the map during three great floods. Characterized by a hardworking and driven population; the community attracted major investments by the mid-1900s; including the expanded operations of the General Motors Fisher Body Plant.
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