FENCE INSTALLATION LINCOLN VILLAGE OHIO

Lincoln Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States. It is centered near the intersection of US 40 and I-270 on the west side of Columbus. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,032, down from 9,482 at the 2000 census.

Lincoln Village was started in 1955 as a planned community by a genuine estate additional of Nationwide Insurance. The community was developed to have anything the essentials, such as a shopping center, schools, and parks, and to incorporate safety considerations such as not positioning the homes upon street corners to eliminate blind intersections.

Ohio Farm Bureau Federation President and CEO Murray Lincoln had aspired to create a suburban “village” since the in advance 1940s. Lincoln, as the head of what would become Nationwide Insurance from 1920 to 1948, initiated work on the Lincoln Village project in the to the fore 1950s in the aerate of the preserve of the U.S. Cooperative Movement. Lincoln was accomplished to “sell” the Cooperative ideology to Ohio individual farmers, and viewed co-ops as “an answer to Communism in Europe and Asia, and as a report wheel neighboring unfettered private enterprise in the U.S.”^{[citation needed]} After founding several co-op and non co-op enterprises, Lincoln was competent to fund the momentum of Lincoln Village considering assets made from these corporations (which totaled $133,510,000). Lincoln’s People’s Development Corporation was formed to build Lincoln Village. The price of this project was about $30,000,000 USD.^{[citation needed]} The mean for Lincoln Village included 9 miles (14 km) of streets, sewers, a pumping station, and a million-gallon water pump. Lincoln Village was built for 10,000 inhabitants, and was set all but a 20-acre (8.1 ha) civic center. In 1953, bulldozers completed grading of 1,270 acres (510 ha) of farmland in western Columbus for the construction of Lincoln Village, with churches, a school, wooded park, playgrounds, and a library. A shopping middle would with be built. Housing in the village was to swell apartment buildings and single family homes priced between $9,000 to $16,000.

Lincoln Village is located in west-central Franklin County at 39°57′10″N 83°7′57″W / 39.95278°N 83.13250°W / 39.95278; -83.13250 (39.952696, -83.132598).