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Cincinnati was first called "Queen of the West" in 1819 by Ed. B. Cooke who wrote "The City is, indeed, justly styled the fair Queen of the West: distinguished for order, enterprise, public spirit, and liberality, she stands the wonder of an admiring world." It was published in the Cincinnati Advertiser and the Inquisitor. The following year ...
1912, the Cincinnati Reds opened a new steel-and-concrete ballpark, Redland Field (later known as Crosley Field). 1914 - Martha, the last passenger pigeon, dies at the Cincinnati Zoo. [27] 1916 - 9th Street YMCA opens. [28] Hall of famer Edd Roush led Cincinnati to the 1919 World Series. 1920 Cincinnati Subway breaks ground [29] Cincinnati ...
“By 1850 Cincinnati was the principal hog market in the world,” boasted the book “They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati,” written by federal writers for the Works Progress ...
By 1880 Cincinnati was recognized as the "Beer Capital of the World", [8] with Over-the-Rhine its center of brewing. Wielert's, one of Over-the-Rhine's most popular beer gardens, in 1875. During the nineteenth century, most Cincinnatians regarded Over-the-Rhine as the city's premier entertainment district. [6]
What could have been Cincinnati’s darkest day did not turn out that way. During the Civil War, Cincinnati had a bit of a buffer from the South because Kentucky, a slave-holding border state, did ...
I have been at The Enquirer for 25 years, long enough that stories we covered when I first started are now fodder for a history column.
Cincinnati (/ ˌ s ɪ n s ɪ ˈ n æ t i / ⓘ SIN-sih-NAT-ee; nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. [10] Settled by Europeans in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky.
Within a few decades, the Cincinnati air was foul with soot and smoke from the growing city. So plans were made to move the observatory. First the then-new University of Cincinnati, which was ...