{ "type": "place", "slug": "upper-arlington", "key": "P79002", "name": "Upper Arlington (city)", "short_name": "Upper Arlington", "place_type": "city", "county": { "name": "Franklin", "slug": "franklin", "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/county/franklin/" }, "population": 36793, "center": { "lat": 40.029555765215584, "lon": -83.0725505644777 }, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/place/upper-arlington/", "api": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/api/place/upper-arlington.json", "zips": [ { "zip": "43221", "name": "Upper Arlington and Columbus", "share": 0.6126, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/zip/43221/" }, { "zip": "43220", "name": "Columbus", "share": 0.4745, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/zip/43220/" }, { "zip": "43212", "name": "Columbus", "share": 0.12, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/zip/43212/" } ], "water": [ { "pwsid": "OH2504412", "name": "Columbus Public Water System", "share": 1.0, "url": "https://crackedbuckeye.com/water/OH2504412/" } ], "history": { "key": "P79002", "name": "Upper Arlington (city)", "kind": "city", "county": "Franklin", "summary": "Upper Arlington began on Christmas Eve 1913, when Columbus real-estate brothers King and Ben Thompson agreed to buy 840 acres of James T. Miller's farm on the Scioto River and lay it out as a curving, restricted 'garden suburb' modeled on Kansas City's Country Club District. The land had passed through a line of Perry Township owners — Backus, McCoy, Smith, and finally Miller — after an 1800 federal land-bounty grant, and it lies a short distance north of Shrum Mound, a roughly 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound that is the oldest recorded human trace in the immediate area. Development had barely started when, in 1916, the U.S. Army and Ohio National Guard turned the still-empty tract into Camp Willis, a mobilization camp for the Mexican border crisis. By 1917 the subdivision was known as Upper Arlington, after Arlington, its neighbor to the south (renamed Marble Cliff in 1901); it incorporated as a village on March 20, 1918, and became a city on February 8, 1941. It is now a fully built-out, largely residential Columbus suburb of roughly 36,800 people, known for its curvilinear streets and its Old Arlington Historic District.", "founded": { "settled": "1913", "platted": "1914", "incorporated": "1918", "by": "King Gibson Thompson and Benjamin Sells Thompson (King and Ben Thompson)", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/442/Our-Founders", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, "name_origin": { "text": "The Thompsons first marketed their new subdivision as the 'Country Club District.' By 1917 it was known instead as 'Upper Arlington' — 'Arlington' for the neighboring village immediately to its south on the Scioto River, which had briefly carried that name before incorporating in 1901 as Marble Cliff, and 'Upper' for Upper Arlington's position north/upstream of it.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Arlington,_Ohio", "source_host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, "native": { "text": "Upper Arlington's own recorded Native history is thin, and what exists points just south of the modern city rather than to a site inside it. Adena people were building mounds along this stretch of the Scioto by roughly 800 BC; the nearest surviving example is Shrum Mound, a 20-foot conical burial mound on a bluff above the river in what is now Columbus's Campbell Memorial Park, just south of Upper Arlington. It was raised about 2,000 years ago, has never been excavated, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970, under its official listing name, Campbell Mound; the Shrum family, for whom it is popularly known, deeded the mound and the surrounding acre to the Ohio Historical Society in 1928. Franklin County once held an estimated 132 mounds and 28 earthworks, by an early count from the Ohio Historical Society's own curator of archaeology; only a handful survive, Shrum Mound among them. Upper Arlington's city history states that Wyandot people later hunted and, by the early 1700s, farmed this part of the Scioto valley, and that they were displaced after the United States issued Revolutionary War land-bounty grants covering the area around 1800; Wikipedia's account of the city agrees on both points. No source found in this research names a specific Wyandot village, trail, or treaty boundary as lying within Upper Arlington itself — the nearest documented Wyandot association in the immediate area is upriver at Dublin, where John Sells settled in 1808 and where Chief Leatherlips is memorialized. The Scioto's limestone bluffs continue along Upper Arlington's western edge (later dammed to form Griggs Reservoir) and downstream past the old quarry works near present Marble Cliff described in the 1880 county history; high ground of this kind was generally preferred for travel and settlement along central Ohio's rivers, but no specific Native trail or camp is recorded by name inside the city in the sources reviewed. For treaty cessions, other Wyandot and Shawnee villages, and county-wide Adena and Hopewell context, see the Franklin County file.", "peoples": [ "Adena culture", "Wyandot" ], "sites": [ { "name": "Shrum Mound", "type": "mound", "where": "Campbell Memorial Park, 3141 McKinley Ave., Columbus, just south of Upper Arlington on a bluff above the Scioto River; listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name Campbell Mound", "period": "Adena culture, roughly 800 BC - AD 100", "source": "https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/shrum-mound/", "source_host": "ohiohistory.org" } ], "sources": [ "https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/shrum-mound/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrum_Mound", "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/436/Our-Beginnings-Before-1913", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Arlington,_Ohio", "https://www.ohiohistory.org/adena-archaeology-in-franklin-county-ohio/", "https://www.ohiogenealogyexpress.com/franklin/franklinco_hist_1880/franklinco_hist_1880_375_twp_perry.htm", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_Reservoir" ] }, "timeline": [ { "year": "c. 800 BC - AD 100", "event": "Adena people build the conical burial mound known today as Shrum Mound, on a Scioto River bluff just south of the future Upper Arlington.", "source": "https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/shrum-mound/", "datetime": "800", "source_host": "ohiohistory.org" }, { "year": "1800", "event": "The United States issues Revolutionary War land-bounty grants covering this stretch of the Scioto valley to Elijah Backus, Jonathan Dayton, and Andrew Marker; Wyandot residents are displaced from the area in the years that follow.", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/436/Our-Beginnings-Before-1913", "datetime": "1800", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "year": "1818", "event": "John McCoy buys 1,157 acres of the Backus tract along the Scioto River; the land passes to Benjamin Smith and then, in 1859, to Dr. Henry Miller, whose family farms it until 1913.", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/436/Our-Beginnings-Before-1913", "datetime": "1818", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "year": "1905", "event": "Griggs Dam is completed on the Scioto River, forming Griggs Reservoir along what becomes Upper Arlington's western edge and giving Columbus its first major drinking-water reservoir; a separate Columbus water-system timeline instead dates the reservoir and its Scioto River Purification Plant to 1908.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_Reservoir", "datetime": "1905", "source_host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, { "year": "1913", "event": "On Christmas Eve, King Gibson Thompson and his brother Ben Thompson agree to buy 840 acres of James T. Miller's farm, the land that becomes Upper Arlington.", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/442/Our-Founders", "datetime": "1913", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "year": "1914", "event": "The Thompsons form the King Thompson Company and lay the farm out in roughly 2,500 lots along curving streets, marketing it first as the 'Country Club District.'", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Thompson_Profile_and_Home.jpg", "datetime": "1914", "source_host": "commons.wikimedia.org" }, { "year": "1914", "event": "In August, grading begins on Roxbury Road, Upper Arlington's first street.", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/442/Our-Founders", "datetime": "1914", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "year": "1916", "event": "The undeveloped part of the new subdivision becomes Camp Willis, a mobilization camp where the Ohio National Guard trains before deploying to the Mexican border; it is named for Ohio Governor Frank B. Willis.", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/436/Our-Beginnings-Before-1913", "datetime": "1916", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "year": "1917", "event": "By this year the subdivision is known as 'Upper Arlington,' after Arlington, its neighbor to the south (renamed Marble Cliff in 1901); a first, informal school also opens in the basement of the Thompson home with twelve pupils.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Arlington,_Ohio", "datetime": "1917", "source_host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, { "year": "1918", "event": "On March 20, Upper Arlington incorporates as a village, population about 200.", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/436/Our-Beginnings-Before-1913", "datetime": "1918", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "year": "1918", "event": "In October, Upper Arlington's first public school opens with fifty-two students and four teachers, including Mary Boyer, who had been running a private kindergarten for the community.", "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss_Boyers_Kindergarten_Class,_1917_(4363303445).jpg", "datetime": "1918", "source_host": "commons.wikimedia.org" }, { "year": "1928", "event": "Minnie R. Shrum deeds Shrum Mound and the surrounding acre to the Ohio Historical Society; the mound is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Campbell Mound on November 10, 1970.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrum_Mound", "datetime": "1928", "source_host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, { "year": "1941", "event": "Upper Arlington becomes a city on February 8.", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/436/Our-Beginnings-Before-1913", "datetime": "1941", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "year": "1985", "event": "In October, the 536-acre Old Arlington neighborhood, with about 1,120 buildings, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Upper Arlington Historic District.", "source": "https://uahistory.org/upper-arlington-historic-district", "datetime": "1985", "source_host": "uahistory.org" }, { "year": "2012", "event": "The Frederick G. Kilgour House at 1415 Kirkley Road — home of the Upper Arlington resident who founded OCLC, the library consortium behind WorldCat — is added to the National Register of Historic Places.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Franklin_County,_Ohio", "datetime": "2012", "source_host": "en.wikipedia.org" } ], "stories": [ { "title": "The Thompson Brothers Build a Garden Suburb", "text": "King Gibson Thompson and his younger brother, Benjamin Sells Thompson, grew up in Georgetown, Ohio, on the Ohio River, and both attended Ohio State University before going into real estate together in Columbus. By 1913 they had a specific model in mind: Kansas City's Country Club District, an upscale, curving, deed-restricted development that was reshaping how American suburbs were built. On Christmas Eve 1913 they agreed to buy 840 acres of James T. Miller's farm, land roughly bounded today by Fifth Avenue, Riverside Drive, Lane Avenue, and Northwest Boulevard, with Miller's own physician, Dr. J. A. Van Fossen, helping broker the sale. The King Thompson Company, formed in 1914, laid the farm out in about 2,500 lots along winding streets rather than a grid, and crews graded Roxbury Road, the first of them, in August of that year. By 1915 six houses stood on the new streets, and early in 1916 King and Ben each finished building their own homes overlooking Miller Park. The brothers ran the development personally for decades afterward, controlling architecture and landscaping street by street, a level of hands-on control still visible in Old Arlington's uniform, mature streetscape today.", "source": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/442/Our-Founders", "source_host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "title": "Camp Willis, 1916", "text": "The Thompsons' new suburb had produced barely half a dozen houses when, in 1916, its still-mostly-empty land was taken over for a very different purpose. The Ohio National Guard mobilized that year for duty on the Mexican border, and the open ground of the young Upper Arlington subdivision, between roughly Fifth Avenue and Lane Avenue, was chosen as a mustering and training ground. The resulting camp was named Camp Willis, after Ohio's sitting governor, Frank B. Willis. Guardsmen drilled, ate out of mess kits, and had their artillery batteries photographed on ground that, within a few years, would be residential streets and yards. The camp was gone well before Upper Arlington incorporated as a village in 1918, but it left a lasting mark on local memory: a boulder marker on Arlington Avenue near Tremont Road, close to where Jones Middle School now stands, and Upper Arlington's present-day Veterans Plaza both commemorate the site.", "source": "https://uahistory.org/calendar/2021/5/29/portrayal-of-life-at-camp-willis-1916", "source_host": "uahistory.org" }, { "title": "Shrum Mound, Just South of the City", "text": "Long before any farm or suburb, Adena people were raising burial mounds along the Scioto River valley, and the best-preserved example near Upper Arlington still stands just south of the city, on a bluff above the river in what is now Columbus's Campbell Memorial Park. Built roughly 2,000 years ago, the mound is about 20 feet high and 100 feet across, and it has never been excavated, so no one knows what, if anything, remains inside it. It is popularly called Shrum Mound for the family that owned the surrounding land in the early twentieth century: in 1928 Minnie R. Shrum deeded the mound and an acre around it to the Ohio Historical Society, which dedicated the site as a park the following year and still manages it as a public site today. It was formally added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970, under the listing name Campbell Mound, after the park itself, which is named for former Ohio governor James E. Campbell. Franklin County once held well over a hundred mounds and dozens of earthworks, by one early count from the Ohio Historical Society's own curator of archaeology; nearly all have since been leveled by farming and development, which makes Shrum Mound one of only a handful that survive to be seen today.", "source": "https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/shrum-mound/", "source_host": "ohiohistory.org" }, { "title": "Farms on the Scioto Before the Suburb", "text": "Upper Arlington's ground has a documented owner list stretching back to 1800, when the United States issued Revolutionary War land-bounty grants covering this stretch of the Scioto valley to Elijah Backus, Jonathan Dayton, and Andrew Marker. In 1818, John McCoy bought 1,157 acres of the Backus tract; the land later passed to Benjamin Smith and then, in 1859, to Dr. Henry Miller, whose family farmed it until his son James sold 840 acres of it to King and Ben Thompson in 1913. A few miles upriver, the Scioto valley's most prominent early landowner was John Sells, who settled at Dublin on the river's west bank in 1808; his daughter, Matilda Sells, married Samuel S. Davis of Perry Township in 1825, and the stone house Davis built that year on the Scioto's east bank, about a mile south of the Dublin bridge, still stands today and is separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Perry Township's 1880 county history records this same stretch of river bluffs as home to a stone quarry and to the old Backus and McCoy mills, later called the Marble Cliff mills, and notes, in the language of the period, that the cliffs 'abounded in rattlesnakes at an early day.' None of this farm-and-mill landscape survives inside Upper Arlington itself, but it is the ground the Thompson brothers bought in 1913.", "source": "https://www.ohiogenealogyexpress.com/franklin/franklinco_hist_1880/franklinco_hist_1880_375_twp_perry.htm", "source_host": "ohiogenealogyexpress.com" }, { "title": "Old Arlington Becomes a Historic District", "text": "By the early 1980s, the Thompsons' original curving streets and Tudor and Colonial Revival houses had become historic in their own right, and in 1983 the trustees of the Upper Arlington Historical Society began exploring a National Register nomination for the old subdivision. Volunteers spent roughly a year and a half inventorying and photographing buildings across the original tract before the nomination was complete. In October 1985 the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Upper Arlington Historic District, a 536-acre area encompassing about 1,120 buildings, more than 900 of them counted as contributing to its historic character. The nomination recognized it as one of the Columbus area's first planned communities of its kind, organized around parks, a school, a civic center, and shopping facilities rather than a plain street grid, at a time when Columbus itself had fewer than 250,000 people. Stone entrance piers, including the original one at Fifth Avenue and Cambridge Boulevard that already appears in 1918 photographs of the subdivision's entrance, still mark the district today.", "source": "https://uahistory.org/upper-arlington-historic-district", "source_host": "uahistory.org" } ], "photos": [ { "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss_Boyers_Kindergarten_Class,_1917_(4363303445).jpg", "file": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Miss_Boyers_Kindergarten_Class%2C_1917_%284363303445%29.jpg", "caption": "Mary Boyer's private kindergarten class, held in a Grandview school building before Upper Arlington had schools of its own; Boyer went on to teach grades four through six when the Upper Arlington school system opened in 1918.", "credit": "UA Archives / Upper Arlington Public Library, via Flickr Commons", "license": "no known copyright restrictions", "year": "1917", "basis": "Flickr Commons 'no known copyright restrictions' designation for a 1917 photograph", "thumb_url": "/history/photos/P79002_0.jpg", "w": 1495, "h": 585, "license_url": null, "host": "commons.wikimedia.org" }, { "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Upper_Arlington_OH_in_1918.jpg", "file": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Entrance_to_Upper_Arlington_OH_in_1918.jpg", "caption": "The stone entryway and newly built houses at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Cambridge Boulevard, marking the entrance to the new Upper Arlington subdivision, 1918.", "credit": "Upper Arlington Community (Ohio); 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published November 1918.", "credit": "Upper Arlington Community (Ohio); scan via UA Archives", "license": "public domain", "year": "1918", "basis": "published before 1931; Wikimedia Commons tag confirms US copyright has expired", "thumb_url": "/history/photos/P79002_3.jpg", "w": 885, "h": 1328, "license_url": null, "host": "commons.wikimedia.org" }, { "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shrum_Mound,_Campbell_Memorial_Park.jpg", "file": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Shrum_Mound%2C_Campbell_Memorial_Park.jpg", "caption": "Shrum Mound (listed on the National Register as Campbell Mound), the roughly 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound in Campbell Memorial Park just south of Upper Arlington; modern aerial view.", "credit": "Photo by Flickr user Jsjessee", "license": "CC BY-SA 2.0", "year": "2020", "basis": "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license tag on Wikimedia Commons", "thumb_url": "/history/photos/P79002_4.jpg", "w": 3541, "h": 1994, "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/", "host": "commons.wikimedia.org" } ], "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Arlington,_Ohio", "https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/shrum-mound/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrum_Mound", "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/436/Our-Beginnings-Before-1913", "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/442/Our-Founders", "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/420/UA-History-Trail", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Franklin_County,_Ohio", "https://www.ohiogenealogyexpress.com/franklin/franklinco_hist_1880/franklinco_hist_1880_375_twp_perry.htm", "https://www.genealogybug.net/FrankPic/davis_s.htm", "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Upper_Arlington,_Ohio", "https://uahistory.org/calendar/2021/5/29/portrayal-of-life-at-camp-willis-1916", "https://uahistory.org/new-page-2", "https://uahistory.org/upper-arlington-historic-district", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Cliff,_Ohio", "https://upperarlingtonneighborhood.org/a-stroll-through-time-the-rich-history-and-enduring-heritage-of-upper-arlington-ohio/", "https://devcolumbusneighborhoods.osu.edu/photograph/king-gibson-thompson-1918/", "https://columbusneighborhoods.org/photograph/ohio-national-guard-artillery-battery-camp-willis-1916/", "https://www.ohiohistory.org/adena-archaeology-in-franklin-county-ohio/", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_Reservoir", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Block_Building", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataskala_Presbyterian_Church", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_G._Kilgour", "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss_Boyers_Kindergarten_Class,_1917_(4363303445).jpg", "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Upper_Arlington_OH_in_1918.jpg", "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1740_Roxbury_Road_in_1918_(4370640809).jpg", "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Thompson_Profile_and_Home.jpg", "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shrum_Mound,_Campbell_Memorial_Park.jpg" ], "gaps": "Three NRHP listings in the batch's zip-matched hint list are not Upper Arlington sites and are excluded here: Pataskala Presbyterian Church and Pataskala United Methodist Church are in Pataskala, Licking County, about 25 miles east (confirmed via their own Wikipedia/NRHP entries), and the Bank Block Building is a real Franklin County landmark but sits at 1255-1293 Grandview Ave. in Grandview Heights, a separate city that merely shares the 43212 zip code with a slice of Upper Arlington. The five Benjamin/David Sells NRHP buildings in the same hint list also turned out not to be in Upper Arlington: their NRHP records place the Benjamin Sells House, both barns, and the wash house at 4586 Hayden Run Road in Washington Township, and the McCracken-Sells House at 3983 Dublin Road (Wikipedia's finding aid lists it under Mifflin Township, which does not border Dublin Road and looks like an error in that table) — all several miles from Upper Arlington. I could not find a sourced link between these specific structures and the Miller farm the Thompson brothers bought, though the Sells family is genuinely tied to this stretch of the Scioto valley: John Sells settled at Dublin in 1808, and his daughter Matilda Sells married Samuel Davis of Perry Township in 1825. The GNIS historical name 'Highway' in zip 43221, shared verbatim with neighboring Hilliard's hint list, could not be verified as a real lost place name; the USGS GNIS domestic-names search tool did not return usable results in the time available, and the name's generic wording and duplication across two cities' files suggests a database artifact rather than a genuine post office, mill, or lost village name. Sources also disagree on the Griggs Reservoir completion date (1905 per Wikipedia's Griggs Reservoir article versus 1908 per Columbus's water-system timeline); both are given above. I could not retrieve the full NRHP nomination-form text (only index/summary data) for the Kilgour House, the McCracken-Sells House, or the Benjamin Sells House group, so architectural and biographical detail on those individual buildings beyond what is given here is unverified. Beyond Shrum Mound, no source found names a specific Wyandot village, trail, or treaty line inside Upper Arlington itself; the Franklin County file should be checked for that county-wide detail.", "confidence": "high", "researched": "2026-09-10", "model": "sonnet", "founded_line": "Settled 1913, platted 1914, incorporated 1918, by King Gibson Thompson and Benjamin Sells Thompson (King and Ben Thompson).", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Arlington,_Ohio", "sources_h": [ { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Arlington,_Ohio", "host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, { "url": "https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/shrum-mound/", "host": "ohiohistory.org" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrum_Mound", "host": "en.wikipedia.org" }, { "url": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/436/Our-Beginnings-Before-1913", "host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "url": "https://www.upperarlingtonoh.gov/442/Our-Founders", "host": "upperarlingtonoh.gov" }, { "url": 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