Editing Lincoln Village, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[American Farm Bureau Federation|Ohio Farm Bureau Federation]] President and CEO Murray Lincoln had aspired to create a suburban "village" since the early 1940s. Lincoln, as the head of what would become Nationwide Insurance from 1920 to 1948, initiated work on the Lincoln Village project in the early 1950s with the support of the [[History of the cooperative movement#U.S. Co-operatives|U.S. Cooperative Movement]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dispatch.com/article/20081019/news/310199922|title=Lincoln Village: For planned community, the model has changed|website=The Columbus Dispatch|language=en|access-date=2020-01-29}}</ref> Lincoln was able to "sell" the Cooperative ideology to Ohio individual farmers, and viewed co-ops as "an answer to Communism in Europe and Asia, and as a balance wheel against unfettered private enterprise in the U.S."{{Citation needed|date=December 2015}} After founding several co-op and non co-op enterprises, Lincoln was able to fund the development of Lincoln Village with assets made from these corporations (which totaled $133,510,000).{{Citation needed|date=December 2015}} Lincoln's People's Development Corporation was formed to build Lincoln Village. The price of this project was about $30,000,000 USD.{{Citation needed|date=December 2015}} The plan for Lincoln Village included {{convert|9|mi|0}} of streets, sewers, a pumping station, and a million-gallon water pump. Lincoln Village was built for 10,000 inhabitants, and was set around a {{convert|20|acre|adj=on}} civic center.{{Citation needed|date=December 2015}} In 1953, bulldozers completed grading of {{convert|1270|acre}} of farmland in western Columbus for the construction of Lincoln Village, with churches, a school, wooded park, playgrounds, and a library. A shopping center would also be built. Housing in the village was to include apartment buildings and single family homes priced between $9,000 to $16,000.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title = INSURANCE: Man with a Mission|url = http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,858215,00.html|magazine = Time|date = 1953-08-17|access-date = 2015-12-15}}</ref>