South Messenger - October 4th, 2020

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Rangers romp
Photos courtesy of Maria Varney
A host of Hamilton Township Rangers’ tacklers swarm a Teays Valley ball carrier
during the Rangers’ 21-12 win over Teays Valley on Sept. 18. The Rangers also
defeated Newark 35-13 on Sept. 25 to make their record 4-1 by the Messenger’s
press time.
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make for a beautiful park, with the rolling
kames, kettle pond and clusters of mature
tree growth. Obviously, I know the developer
would rather make money on their
land, but with it being close to 500 acres in
the single parcel, it wouldn’t be far-fetched
to see park land on the north end of the
property and commercial business on the
south end closer to Scioto Downs.”
Attorney Jeff Brown is representing the
applicant.
When asked about the project, Brown
said, “The rezoning application for this
property has been submitted and we look
forward to our presentation at the (South
Columbus) Area Commission (zoning committee
meeting) on Oct 15.
The committee meeting is at 6:30 p.m.
and will be held at 3639 Parsons Avenue.
The former 26-building, 5,000-acre
Hartman Farm property was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places on
Oct. 9, 1974 for its significance in the field
of agriculture and its historic functions in
processing, agricultural outbuildings, animal
facilities and institutional housing.
Founded in 1903 by Dr. Samuel
Hartman, the farm was once hailed as “the
largest intensely cultivated, diversified
farm in the world.”
According to the National Register
application, the farm frontage along U.S.
Route 23 was approximately four miles in
length and the west side was frontage all
along the Scioto River.
At one time, the property’s inventory
included a manager’s house–an original
structure still on site–employee row houses
built in 1905, a school, an electric power
plant, canning factory and cider press,
stock and horse barns and foreman’s
house.
“The farm was famous not only for its
size, but for its livestock and crops as well,”
continued the 1974 application. “Hartman
bred three champion strains of horses…
had the world’s largest herd of Jersey cattle,
which easily supplied milk for the
entire city of Columbus. Ducks, chickens
and other poultry were raised in abundance.
Hartman was always careful to
select the best registered breeds of any animal
he raised…In its centralized management
and huge acreage, the Hartman
Farm was an early version of the massive
farming conglomerates so common today.”
In comparison to acreage at the height
of the farm operation, the property of today
is approximately one-10th the size but is
still partially covered in cropland.
According to a preliminary site plan,
there are four proposed access points to the
property–one connecting to Rathmell
Road, another off of South High Street, the
third connecting to Nells Way in a housing
subdivision and the fourth off of Parsons
Avenue. The site borders the Scioto Downs
Racino to the south.
Whitmore expressed concerns about the
impact rezoning the acreage to manufacturing/industrial
could have on traffic. He
and fellow resident Spencer Williams created
the www.savehartmanfarms.com
website.
“The infrastructure in the area is
already outdated,” alleged Whitmore. “…
many accidents already occur at the intersection
of Rathmell and High Street and
how backed up traffic already gets when
turning east onto Rathmell coming South,
adding an industrial or manufacturing
complex is a recipe for disaster.”