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The Cincinnati Observatory, known locally as Mt. Lookout Observatory, is located in Cincinnati, Ohio (United States) on top of Mount Lookout. It consists of two observatory buildings housing an 11-inch (28 cm) and 16 inch (41 cm) aperture refracting telescope. It is the oldest professional observatory in the United States. [3]
The Observatory Historic District is a historic portion of the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Centered around the Cincinnati Observatory and strung largely along a single street, the district has been named a historic district by both local and federal historic preservation agencies. Houses on the western side of the ...
In the 1990s, the Cincinnati Observatory was nearly history. The observatory buildings were in deplorable shape, Ventre said. There were rumors UC wanted to close the observatory, sell the land ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in eastern Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Eastern Cincinnati is defined as being all of the city outside of downtown and east of Vine Street.
The Cincinnati Observatory is the first public observatory and houses one of the oldest working telescopes in the world. One of the city's most prized possessions is housed at the Cincinnati ...
Situated across the Ohio River from the southern border state of Kentucky, which allowed slavery, while slavery was illegal in Ohio, Cincinnati was a natural destination or part of a northerly route for people escaping slavery. Anti-slavery tracts and newspapers were published in Cincinnati to send to the South.
Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 – October 28, 1916) was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones. [1] [2]While director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1871-1916, he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps, and weather forecasts.
Cincinnati was part of the Northwest Territory, before Ohio was admitted to the Union in 1803. Travel was difficult in the early days of the United States Baily embarked on a journey to America on ...