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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.
1844 - Cincinnati Historical Society organized. 1847 Strobridge Lithography Company in business. [15] First Jewish hospital in the United States opens; 1848 - Turners' Library in operation. [6] 1849 First city in the U.S. to hold a municipal song festival, named Saengerfest; Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio relocates to Cincinnati. [16]
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.
Fort Washington was a fortified stockade with blockhouses built by order of Gen. Josiah Harmar starting in summer 1789 in what is now downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, near the Ohio River. The physical location of the fort was facing the mouth of the Licking River, above present day Fort Washington Way.
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 Orphan Asylum; Hopkins Park is a small hillside park in Mt. Auburn; Inwood Park was created in 1904 after the purchase of a stone quarry. Its pavilion, built in 1910 in Mission style, is one of the earliest buildings extant in Cincinnati's parks. Jackson Hill Park; Glencoe-Auburn Hotel and Glencoe-Auburn Place Row Houses; Prospect Hill
"That's So Cincinnati" podcast: Mixologist Molly Wellmann and historian Greg Hand team up to make make Cincinnati history relatable – and amusing.
The inscription "To the People of Cincinnati" appears on its base. [3] The artistic fountain's motif is water, in homage the river city's continuing debt to the Ohio River. [4] The central figure, the Genius of Water—a female in heroic size—pours down the symbolic longed-for rain from hundreds of jets pierced in her outstretched fingers.