For 30 years, David Meyers was employed in the adult and juvenile correctional systems of Ohio, including stints at the Ohio State Reformatory and Ohio Penitentiary. He was also closely involved with the Fairfield School for Boys. For this book, he was assisted by his daughter, Elise, a freelance writer and photographer who has grown up around correctional institutions. Many of the images in Central Ohio”s Historic Prisons are from the Grandview Heights Public Library”s Columbus Citizen/Citizen-Journal Collection. David is also the coauthor of Columbus: The Musical Crossroads.
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David Meyers & Elise Meyers: Central Ohio’s Historic Prisons
With the opening of the Ohio State Reformatory in 1896, the state legislature had put in place "the most complete prison system, in theory, which exists in the United States." The reformato …
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Arnett Howard & James Loeffler: Columbus
Columbus has long been known for its musicians. Unlike New York, San Francisco, Kansas City, Nashville, or even Cincinnati, however, it has never had a definable , scene., Still, some truly remarkabl …
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Meyers David Meyers & Walker Elise Meyers Walker: Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938
In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling from a wave of lynchings and other acts of racially motivated mob violence. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and respected men and women yet …
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Beverly Meyers & David Meyers: Look to Lazarus
Department stores were a midwest institution, none more prominent in downtown Columbus Ohio than F&R Laazarus & Company.For more than 150 years, F&R Lazarus & Company was the heart of downtown Columb …
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James Dailey & David Meyers: Inside the Ohio Penetentiary
Explore one of history’s most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness. As “animal factories” go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For …
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David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker: Carrying Coal to Columbus
As early as 1755, explorers found coal deposits in Ohio’s Hocking Valley. The industry that followed created towns and canals and established a new way of life. The first shipment of coal rolled into …
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David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker: Historic Columbus Crimes
A collection of true crime stories from the Ohio city, with photos included. In Historic Columbus Crimes, a father-daughter research team looks back at sixteen tales of murder, mystery, and ma …
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David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker: Ohio’s Black Hand Syndicate
Organized crime was born in the back of a fruit store in Marion. Before America saw headlines about the Capone Mob, the Purple Gang and Murder Inc., the specter of the Black Hand terrorized nearly ev …
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David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker: Murder in Amish Ohio
In the summer of 1957, a young Holmes County farmer was gunned down in cold blood. There was little to distinguish this slaying from hundreds of others throughout the United States that year except f …
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David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker: Historic Black Settlements of Ohio
In the years leading up to the Civil War, Ohio had more African American settlements than any other state. Owing to a common border with several slave states, it became a destination for people of co …
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David Meyers & Elise Meyers Walker: Reverse Underground Railroad in Ohio
Prior to the Civil War, thousands escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. Untold others failed in the attempt.These unfortunate souls were dragged into bondage via the Reverse Underground Railr …
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David Meyers: What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
YOU CAN KICK THE BOY OUT OF THE BAND… Some fifty years after Zack Black & the Blues Attack broke-up, the surviving members of the band still hadn’t come to terms with it. For Wes Kennedy and Evan B …
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