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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