The story begins in the 1800s, with the creation of Franklin County and its Clinton Township. In 1847, the US Post Office employed a postmaster to open a post office in the center of Clinton Township, near the corner of Oakland Park Avenue and the former Sandusky Turnpike, a plank covered toll road that we today know as High Street. The post office was designated as "Clintonville", recognizing the center of the township and the hamlet of a few dozen homesteads.

By the early 1900s, Columbus residents, a majority of whom lived downtown, along with professors from the new Ohio State University, began to build summer homes in the areas around the ravines and the river. Visitors were lured into the country to enjoy the Olentangy Amusement, and later, the short lived Columbus Zoo Amusement Park (where the "Old" Beechwold Subdivision is today). With the arrival of the automobile, developers turned the area farms and woodlots into more than 80 subdivisions - eventually constructing thousands of new homes.

During the 1940s, as the area's population expanded northward, towards Rathbone (now Morse) Road, a new northern branch of the Post Office was created, being designated as the Beechwold Post Office, recognizing the clustering of businesses in the area north of the Overbrook Ravine, along High Street - then State Route 23.