The Mystery of the Missing Cornerstone The cornerstone of the Flint School disappeared in March 2011 according to the  Worthington Suburban News, (SNP.) In "Flint School now just a memory" Bret Liebendorfer of ColumbusLocalNews.com (Suburban Newspapers online) wrote:  "A memorial was to include the well-known pillars, but they were pushed over by vandals; similarly, the school's 800-pound cornerstone also was to be included, but it was stolen." 800 pounds?  Worthington area history The village of Flint was down the road from the village of Worthington, Worthington was itty bitty until the 1950s.  Northern Franklin County was rural. There is a great photo of the pillars standing in front of the rubble after the Columbus Parks and Recreations crew demolished the old school building on th... 04/10/2011

Flint School is gone.  The Flint School sat there at the corner of Park and Flint Roads from the 1920s until a few weeks ago.  The school had NOT been used since the 1960s.  I believe since 1963.  On a site called 'Forgotten Ohio on the page about Flint' it says of the Flint School building "The small school building where Flint's children attended class is still standing, neatly boarded up, in a park at the corner of Park Street and Flint Road." Something about the old school public school building that served the Flint and Sharon Township area reminded me of a shrine.  I believe the cornerstone says 1926.     The Flint School building in March 2010.  "The small school building where Flint's children attended class is still standing, neatly boarded up, in a park at the corner of Park S... 04/07/2011

In 1921 Flint Ohio was a little village in Sharon Township that is now mostly annexed into the City of Columbus.  The area south of the Franklin County line is in the Worthington City School District today. Map -  Flint Ohio is near the intersection of Flint Rd. and Park Rd.   The Flint Carryout just west of the railroad tracks is a sure sign you've found Flint.  The train station that sat in Flint was moved further east long ago and is a residential property. Today in the Flint Ohio area as all over Central Ohio you'd see  Honda Accords, a Toyota Prius or two, a Ford Fusion or a Focus, a Chevy Malibu... what are contemporary Dodge automobiles?  I am just not a big car person. Don O'Brien is and always was a real car buff.  This is Don O'Brien's father in his new 1921 Dodge on his weddi... 09/13/2010

The Village of Flint in northern Franklin County has been annexed to the City of Columbus for some time.  Or perhaps there are still unincorporated areas along Flint Rd. and Park Rd. mixed in among the City of Columbus neighborhoods in the area:  The Village at Worthington The Village at Forest Ridge Christopher Woods The Sanctuary Maybe The Sanctuary is NOT really part of what was Flint, but doesn't it back up to the Flint Cemetery? I don't think of neighborhoods like The Sanctuary, Seven Oaks,  or Worthington Highland being Flint.  To me Flint is the intersection of Flint Road and Park Rd. and the streets,  West St., Station St., Oak St.  but I am sure homes in the surrounding area had Flint Ohio mailing addresses before the area became part of the Columbus and Worthington mailing add... 05/13/2010

Worthington History - Slate Hill School was not the elementary school at 7625 Alta View Blvd. or even an earlier building on that site.  Slate Hill Elementary in the 1920's was on Flint Road, in the community of Flint, not City of Worthington.... nor City of Columbus. The house that used to be the school housed grades one through eight is on the page with the picture of the Slate Hill school children from long ago.   A picture of the former school house from 2008 on Don O'Brien's Flickr photo stream.   The school is now a private home.  According to Worthington Memory the property on the west side of Flint Road's been used as a home since  1947. O'Brien says of the photo of the school children: "Grades 1 through 8 at the Slate Hill School in Flint, Ohio. I'm guessing at the 1920's date.... 01/19/2010

  Flint was a little "village" north of the little village called Worthington.  The 'Top of the Flint' (the Pub... upstairs?)  at 225 Park Rd. Columbus Ohio 43235  is a place of legend...  The Flint Carryout is there just west of the railroad track.  I never really thought of Flint having been a train station, or pondered why it says FLINT on the front of the building.  Or a post office but I am sure it was.  Most of the land around it would have been farm land before much of the land in the Far North Columbus area (outside 270) was annexed to the City of Columbus. Train Station Building? The building that houses the Flint Carryout does not have that old fashioned train station look.  It is a big two story brick building. The ForgottenOH.com entry on Flint has it's own pictures of the b... 12/17/2009