Talk:Camp Chase

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My comment regarding the Civil War Camp Chase, OH page has to do with the posted boundaries:

According to the official Ohio Historical Markers posted on Sullivant Avenue outside the Camp Chase Cemetery, "...Boundaries of the camp were present-day Broad Street (north), Hague Avenue (east), Sullivant Avenue (south), and near Westgate Avenue (west)..."

At the Camp Chase website, scroll down to Maps of the Camp, the overlay does not extend to Sullivant Avenue; only a red star indicating where the cemetery lies in relation to the other boundaries.

The overlay of the original camp should extend to Sullivant Avenue according to the official Ohio Historical Markers. Was the original Camp Chase entrance on Broad Street (northern boundary) or Sullivant Avenue (southern boundary)?

(Gunn pa1950 21:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC))

I used to live on part of what was the original parade ground of Camp Chase. Before the area where the current Hilltop Branch of the Columbus Public Library was built, that land was still untouched from the time of the war. Aerial photos of the area were overlaid with a number of period maps and drawings of the camp and a small ditch/creek which ran through the area was used to help with the registrations. Using this information, it was determined that the entrance to the main camp was, indeed, at the location of the large stone marker in front of the Masonic Lodge on West Broad Street. The entrance to the first section of the prison portion of the camp was approximately where the pitcher's mound sits at West High School. The northern boundary was at W. Broad St, the eastern boundary at Hague Ave, the western boundary was at S. Westgate Ave., and the southern boundary was a diagonal from south of Palmetto, around Fremont, to Wicklow. The pest house sat on the land where the new library was built. The cemetery sat outside and behind (south) of the camp.

The land used for the camp was leased from the landowner at the time by the U.S. government according to property abstracts from the area. The size of the camp encompassed 140 acres. —Duchesswiki (talk • contribs) 03:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC)