S. 3rd Street in German Village |Added to NRHP:||December 30,
1974| German Village (Boundary Increase) |Architectural
style:||No Style Listed| |Added to NRHP:||November 28, 1980|
German Village is a historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio,
just south of downtown. It was settled in the early-to-mid-19th
century by a large number of German immigrants, who at one time
comprised as much as a third of the city's entire population. It
was added to the National Register of Historic Places on
December 30, 1974, becoming the largest privately funded
preservation district on the list, and in 2007, was made a
Preserve America Community by the White House. On November 28,
1980, its boundaries were increased and today it is one of the
premier historic restorations in the world. In 1796, Congress
appropriated the Refugee Lands for individuals who had supported
the Colonial cause in the American Revolution. By 1802, an
American Revolution veteran named John McGowan claimed 328 acres
(1.33 km2), most of what would become the