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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.
The early 20th century was a period of rapid development in Cincinnati, Ohio, particularly in the realm of transportation.In Cumminsville, a neighborhood in the city's northwest, three major rail-based transit lines – the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) through its southern end, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway (CH&D) through its northern end and the Cincinnati Street Railway (CSR ...
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]
In the late 1930s, Anna Marie Hahn's role in several suspected murders rocked Cincinnati and ultimately made Ohio history. Queen City Crime: How serial killer Anna Hahn rocked Cincinnati, made ...
William Cunningham (c. 1807 – October 1871) was a body snatcher who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. A "professional resurrectionist", Cunningham provided corpses for area physicians from 1855 to 1871. Popularly known as Old Cunny, other names attributed to Cunningham include "Old Man Dead" and "The Ghoul". [1]
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.
William Martin Dickson, also known as William M. Dickson (1827–1889), was a lawyer, prosecuting attorney, and judge from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and assisted in the framing of the Emancipation Proclamation .
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 ...