Tarpy Woods

Tarpy Woods has been called "the most secret park in the county". Marble Cliff residents voted in November 1999 to purchase and preserve this undeveloped land as a village park. The passive park has dense woods, a small meadow (Voelker Meadow), and frequent deer visitors. A variety of native trees, wild flowers, and plants fill the park. Improvements to the 8-acre park including benches, bridges, steps, and trails have come from Eagle projects performed by area Boy Scout troop members in partnership with the Village. A pathway of memorial trees is currently under design for the park, and will be known as Studebaker Grove, after Kent Studebaker, Village Council member for 14 years, and mayor from 2009 to 2019.          

This idyllic photo of the Frank Lindenberg family, the original owners of Tarpy Woods, was published by the Columbus Town Life Magazine circa 1914. It shows Frank, his wife Desha Hubbard Lindenberg and their two older sons, seated in the garden of their 8-acre estate on Cambridge Boulevard (now part of Tarpy Woods park). Frank Lindenberg was socially very prominent and a well-respected industrialist both locally and in Brownsville, Texas, where he owned the Ohio and Texas Sugar Cane Company. The family summered in Marble Cliff and wintered in Brownsville. At the time this photo was published, Desha was president of the Woman’s Golf Committee at the Scioto Country Club.