Sullivant Avenue

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Sullivant Avenue is a street in Columbus, Ohio, [United States]], running east to west. It starts at the western city limits, and runs until near downtown. Sullivant Avenue has many neighborhoods alongside it.

[edit] History

Sullivant Avenue is named for Sullivant family, among the earliest residents of the area. During the Civil War, present-day Sullivant Avenue was the southern boundary of the military prison camp, Camp Chase. There is now a Confederate cemetery there.

[edit] Crime

Sullivant Avenue has received a bad reputation for being a dangerous area in Columbus due to murders in the neighborhoods alongside it.^{[citation needed]} Sullivant Avenue is in Precincts 10, 19, and 8 of the Columbus Division of Police.^{[citation needed]}