Wednesday, February 11, 2009

WESTGATE: An affordable oasis

clipped from www.dispatch.com

Sunday, 
August 10, 2008 3:34 AM
An affordable oasis

They're comfortable on Powhatan Avenue in their three-bedroom, 1 1/2-story Cape Cod house, which
they bought for less than $100,000 last August.

"We're the Upper Arlington of the Hilltop," he said.

Westgate was founded in the mid-1920s as one of Columbus' streetcar suburbs, a portion of it
built on land where Union soldiers trained and Confederate soldiers were imprisoned. The Camp Chase
Cemetery, where more than 2,000 Confederate prisoners are buried, is still maintained and open to
the public.

"It's a nice neighborhood, a family-oriented atmosphere," said Darrell Drone, 53, who has lived
in Westgate 16 years.

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