Seven Oaks Ooops... is the name Ozem Gardner Way just a way to say "I'm sorry"? I reposted 'Worthington's  Seven Oaks  this day in history'  to my oldest blog Discover Columbus (a RealTown blog not to be confused with Discover Columbus OH... another blog by a similar name..confused?)   A resident of Ozem Gardner Way shared this story in a comment: The street in the Seven Oaks subdivision named Ozem Gardner Way would have been, could have been... named Laurel Oak Drive if the house movers had not dropped the house and broke it?   Great story.  Seven Oaks Ooops... or an urban legend? True?  Not that I doubt Resident... but I have been told some great stories and passed them on... later I found they were not true.  The story of President Lincoln ... Abe?  I wrote about that story somewhere... 06/23/2010

Seven Oaks neighborhood - March 28, 2010 brought to you by Maureen McCabe  Today Seven Oaks is a City of Columbus neighborhood in the Worthington City School District.   Seven Oaks is south of  Lazelle Road.  One of the streets in Seven Oaks is named Ozem Gardner Way, after a historic area resident.  I wonder if the  Seven Oaks neighborhood  was part of the Reverend Ozem Gardner's farm.   It is likely.   The Flint Cemetery was part of his farm. The Seven Oaks neighborhood was developed in the 1990s.  Seven Oaks is just a little east of the railroad tracks that go through Worthington and what was the Village of Flint back in the 1800s.  The history of the Seven Oaks neighborhood is the history  of the Flint Ohio area and the anti-slavery movement including the underground railroad, accor... 03/27/2010