”Columbus and Portsmouth Turnpike.—A graveled toll road built in 1847 on subscriptions taken separately in each of the counties through which it passed. Three directors and $8,800 of the capital stock were assigned to Franklin County. Dividends were paid on the stock at the office of Robert W. McCoy in Columbus, November 6, 1848, and in May, 1850. Pursuant to an act of the General Assembly, the State’s interest in this road was sold November 20, 1865, to Henry E. Ware, of Waverly, for $8,000.”

Reference Data:

History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio, Vol. 1, Alfred Emory Lee, 1892, page 316