Columbus History, A Journal of the Columbus Historical Society: Vol 3, No. 1

Historical stories about Columbus and central Ohio by the Columbus Historical Society. This issue includes a story about the history of Engine House No. 6, the West Broad Street fire house that is the future home of the CHS by Doug Tracy; a story about Columbus naturalist, taxidermist, author and bookseller Oliver Davie by Genie Hoster; a story about singer Madam Rose Brown, who went from local bars and clubs to Broadway and back before becoming a local television and radio personality by David Meyers; a story about the 1939 Ohio State basketball team, which wasn’t too thrilled about having to play in the first NCAA basketball tournament because they didn’t know what it was (but finished second), by Columbus History editor Bob Hunter; a story by Jeff Coon that examines Civil War letters that show what life was like in Camp Jackson and Camp Chase in Columbus; two stories about Camp Jackson and Camp Chase by Jim Tootle, one of which explains how and why they got there and the other of which tells the importance of a letter that mentions a baseball game being played on the grounds of Camp Chase.. Tootle also has a book review of Roger Jerome’s book Dickens in Ohio: The Neglected Story..