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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Hamilton County
Cincinnati is the county seat for Hamilton County
Adjacent to Hamilton County, Ohio
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built in 1859, was constructed from stone quarried from the slopes of Mt. Adams. Early it was known as the "Archbishop's Church" in honor of Archbishop Purcell (1800-83) who donated the land and supervised construction. It was conceived as a votive . . . — — Map (db m112918) HM
Good Friday Tradition
Beginning in the 1860's, the faithful would climb the Mt. Adams hill to the Holy Cross Immaculate Church (formerly the Church of Immaculate Conception), believing it would be a remembrance of Jesus' ascent of calvary. . . . — — Map (db m187231) HM
Property for Mt. Airy Forest was first acquired in 1911. Its listing by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, shows the period of significance as 1911-1959 and notes the following:
* One of the nation's first city reforestation . . . — — Map (db m85300) HM
In 1819, the first known residents of the Mt. Auburn hilltop were wealthy families who built country estates. After 1849, when Mt. Auburn was annexed to Cincinnati, it continued to grow as a residential suburb. Prominent businessmen and . . . — — Map (db m59350) HM
Looking out over the land that was once the Taft family backyard, visualize an orchard, a vegetable garden, a pasture for livestock, and a barn and stable. A cow and her young calf grazed in the pasture, while a horse and carriage rolled down a . . . — — Map (db m201196) HM
"Mr. Republican" Son of William Howard Taft 1889-1953 Ohio House of Representatives 1921-19226 Ohio Senate 1931-1933 United States Senator from Ohio 1939-1953 Jacques Lipchitx - Sculptor Gift of the Thomas J. Emery Memorial . . . — — Map (db m207026) HM
William Howard Taft. Born here on September 15, 1857, William Howard Taft is the only American to have served as President and Chief Justice of the United States. His unique career of public service began after he graduated from Yale . . . — — Map (db m168978) HM
William Howard Taft Home
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
William Howard Taft Home possesses national significance as the birthplace and residence of William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States . . . — — Map (db m201197) HM
In memory of Helen Herron Taft, wife of President William Howard Taft (1909-1913).
Mrs. Taft was instrumental in beautifying the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. by planting the first Yoshino Cherry tree on March 29, 1912. — — Map (db m201195) HM
In memory of the citizens of Hamilton County who gave their lives in the country's service. 1917 - 1918. These cherry trees were planted by the Garden Club of Cincinnati. 1920 — — Map (db m78234) HM WM
Site of the first fortified settlement in Anderson Township and one of the first in the Virginia Military District. John Garard and Joseph Martin were the founders of this Station, who, with Elias Garard, Joseph Frazee, and others, came by two . . . — — Map (db m19924) HM
Xavier University Armory. The Xavier University Armory was dedicated in 1948 by the first Secretary of the Army, Kenneth C. Royall. In the following decades, U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets used it as a place to refine . . . — — Map (db m169834) HM
Near this spot
stood the block house
at Ludlow Station
built in 1791.
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General Arthur St. Clair
and his army encamped
here from Aug. 1st
to Sept. 17th, 1791.
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General Anthony Wayne
and his army . . . — — Map (db m78961) HM
Manning F. Force was born Washington D.C., Dec. 17, 1824, son of Peter and Hannah (Evans) Force. Graduate of Harvard Law School, 1848, admitted to the Ohio Bar, 1850. Civil War Brevet Major General –In battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, . . . — — Map (db m94275) WM
Spring Grove Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This site possesses national significance as the original site and model for the landscape-lawn concept that dominated American cemetery design from the mid 19th century . . . — — Map (db m171864) HM
Spring Grove received its charter by an act of the Ohio Legislature in January 1845. Motivated by crowded conditions of small
cemeteries created by the cholera epidemics of the 1830s and
1840s, the Cincinnati Horticultural Society formed a . . . — — Map (db m171854) HM
The United States’ declaration of war on Germany in April 1917
resulted in a tragic display of
hysteria directed against everything and anything
German.
In Cincinnati, German teachers
were
dismissed from public schools, German professors
were . . . — — Map (db m134945) HM
Constructed entirely of wood at the onset of the Civil War, the first Washington Park bandstand was a key feature in the park. The bandstand was later replaced by a pond and fountain in the late 1800s. The bandstand you see today, designed in the . . . — — Map (db m203064) HM
David Michael Butler is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC). He was commissioned by AAC to create this mural during renewed protest against state sanctioned violence. LaDe Richardson an AAC student assisted . . . — — Map (db m203282) HM
Side A: Cincinnati Breweries
The Brewery District contains the majority of Cincinnati's remaining breweries and associated structures such as icehouses, bottling buildings, offices, and stables. With the first brewery north of Liberty Street . . . — — Map (db m24835) HM
Side A: Cincinnati Public Markets
Public markets housing butchers, fish merchants, and produce vendors were once the primary source of perishable foods for residents of America's cities. Cincinnati operated nine in 1859. Only Findlay Market, . . . — — Map (db m24814) HM
Crazy Cat, Crazy Quilt honors the accomplished life and career of Cincinnati Master artist, Edie Harper. Edie was born in 1922 in Kansas City and relocated to Cincinnati in the 1930s when her father took a job with Procter & Gamble, the place they . . . — — Map (db m203284) HM
As early as 1879 this site served Over-The-Rhine and greater Cincinnati as a hotel, originally operating as the Washington Park Hotel. — — Map (db m203207) HM
Since moving to Over-the-Rhine in 2005, the Art Academy of Cincinnati has been essential to the neighborhood's transformation. To celebrate the schools commitment to reviving this historic community, ArtWorks turned a painting by one of its . . . — — Map (db m203208) HM
Washington Park is an important civic space in the heart of Cocent that has evolved over the 150 years to accommodate the needs and unctions of the community. The latest improvements came as a result of a unique partnership between the Cincinnati . . . — — Map (db m202854) HM
Findlay Market. Ohio’s oldest surviving municipal market house, Findlay Market was designed under the direction of City Civil Engineer Alfred West Gilbert (1816-1900). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The . . . — — Map (db m212068) HM
Findlay Market is the heart of the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and has been a gathering place for political, religious, and social events since opening in 1855. Inspired by the Cincinnati Reds World Championship in 1919, a group of fans – “rooters” . . . — — Map (db m239172) HM
Louis Hudepohl II and George Kotte sold their liquor business and reopened the dormant Koehler Brewery in 1885. The brewery was so successful that they built new facilities and quadrupled capacity over the following nine years, becoming one of . . . — — Map (db m187234) HM
Iron Fence
An ornamental iron fence anchored by decorative stone entry columns defined the
park boundary throughout its early history. Original stone columns can be seen in two locations in the park today, but the original fence is long . . . — — Map (db m203206) HM
In 1851 temperance advocates successfully backed an amendment to the state constitution that prohibited Ohio from issuing saloon licenses. The result was not what they wanted. Although it became illegal to run a saloon anywhere in the state, the law . . . — — Map (db m187232) HM
[Small plaque]
In memory of those who did not return
1941 ★ 1945
They gave their lives in World War II
“Rest to their ashes — peace to their souls”
Anderson, Ervin • Cooper, Gilbert Jr. • Dollenmeyer, Wm. N. • Halm, Russell • . . . — — Map (db m187087) WM
James Brown is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians of the 20th century. Brown spent the formative years of his career on the Cincinnati-based King Records label producing some of his earliest hits and providing . . . — — Map (db m202777) HM
St. Mary's Church, Over-the-Rhine, is the oldest house of worship still standing in Cincinnati. German Catholic immigrants founded the parish in 1840, and laid the cornerstone on the Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March 1841. The church was . . . — — Map (db m202775) HM
Robert L. McCook Monument
Robert McCook was a practicing lawyer in Cincinnati when the Civil War broke out. He left the security of his successful law practice to recruit and train the 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The 9th Ohio played . . . — — Map (db m203114) HM
The American classical music
walk of fame
Founded in 1996, The American Classical
Music Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring and celebrating
the many facets of American classical
music. The Hall of Fame seeks to . . . — — Map (db m202858) HM
The historic Germania Building was built in 1877 by Heinrich Ratterman, founder of the German Mutual Insurance Co. Johann Bast designed the building in the Italian Renaissance and Eastlake styles.
A carving of a charioteer driving four . . . — — Map (db m203283) HM
The Kroger Co.
Near this site in Over-The-Rhine was one of the original Kroger Grocery & Baking Company stores, where Bernard H. Kroger began serving
the Over-the-Rhine area in 1902. Kroger was 23 years when he opened his first store, the . . . — — Map (db m133320) HM
The Miami and Erie Canal
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Over this site once flowed the Miami and
Erie Canal, linking the Ohio River with the
Maumee and Lake Erie. The canal was opened
in 1827 and was finally . . . — — Map (db m43960) HM
Washington Park History
The design of Washington Park in 2012 marks 200 years of change to this now eight-acre suburban oasis, which has served Cincinnati in various ways since the early years of the City.
From 1810 until 1855, parts of . . . — — Map (db m203203) HM
Woodward High School. William and Abigail Cutter Woodward founded Woodward High School, the first public high school west of the Allegheny Mountains, on this site October 24, 1831. Concerned that the poor of Cincinnati had no avenues for . . . — — Map (db m24596) HM
Eckstein Elementary School operated on this site from 1915-1958 serving the Glendale's Negro Children from Kindergarten through eighth grade. The school was named in honor of Eleanor Eckstein, who taught the children at various locations in this . . . — — Map (db m172525) HM
Population growth in the newly settled communities of Cincinnati (1788) and Hamilton (1791) led to a call to improve the early Native American and military foot trail that connected the two settlements. The Cincinnati and Hamilton Turnpike Company . . . — — Map (db m158442) HM
Founded by Saint Elizabeth Bayley Seton in Maryland in 1809, the Sisters of Charity arrived in Cincinnati in 1829 to open a school and an orphanage, becoming the first permanent establishment of Catholic sisters in Ohio. In 1852 the group separated . . . — — Map (db m227793) HM
Old Clough Church Yard
Here there is no bell peeling
No vaulted tower
Only the crumbling walls
and a spring flower
No prayer is heard
No audible word
Only the winds singing
And heartbells ringing
April has come . . . — — Map (db m238383) HM WM
Inspired by B.B. King and seeing Sam Cooke in his youth. Albert recorded on labels Duke, Peacock, Finch, VLM, Bluestown, Fraternity, Jewel, Iris & Eastbound. "You Gonna Miss Me" and "Ramble" in 1962 featured Big Ed Thompson, Sonny Watt & Tim . . . — — Map (db m118804) HM
Big Ed was influenced by country radio stars Grandpa Jones and Uncle Dave Macon on WCKY and blues on WZIP radio. He was a session guitarist for ABC Paramount, King and Victor recording studios and regularly featured in H-Bomb Ferguson & the Mad Lads . . . — — Map (db m116859) HM
The Clark Stone House, constructed around 1801 by
James Clark (1765-1852), is one of the oldest standing
stone houses in Ohio. Clark, who served as a drummer in the Battle of Yorktown (1781), came with his
family to Anderson Township in 1797 and . . . — — Map (db m133276) HM
The land along Clough Pile was predominately farmland until the 1950s. A photograph from the late 1890s of the Wolfe family farm shows the buildings and fields along a narrow dusty Clough Pike. Today the rebuilt farm house is an office building . . . — — Map (db m169927) HM
Ichabod Benton Miller purchased 440 acres in
Anderson Township on April 2, 1796. The log house
Miller built on his property around 1796 was continuously occupied for more than 170 years until the
Anderson Township Historical Society . . . — — Map (db m133284) HM
Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
“Lifting As We Climb”
The Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs (CFCWC) was organized May 6, 1904, during a meeting called by Mary Fletcher Ross at the Allen Temple . . . — — Map (db m247612) HM
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811 and moved to Cincinnati in 1832 when her father, prominent Congregational minister Lyman Beecher became the pastor of the city's Second Presbyterian Church and president of Lane . . . — — Map (db m127178) HM
This historic house was the residence of author Harriet Beecher Stowe at times from 1833 to 1836. Her experiences in Cincinnati formed the basis of her best-selling novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", published in 1852. — — Map (db m201129) HM
The Lanes,
Baptist merchants from New Orleans, and the Kempers,
a Presbyterian family from Cincinnati,
gave money and land respectively for Cincinnati's first manual labor theological seminary and high
school,
which opened in suburban . . . — — Map (db m171880) HM
Manse Hotel and Annex
Walnut Hills has been home to a significant middle- and working-class Black community since the 1850s. In 1931, African American entrepreneur Horace Sudduth bought 1004 Chapel Street and then the row of buildings across . . . — — Map (db m247611) HM
Named for J.R. Peebles's Grocery, which opened at the intersection of Madisonville and Montgomery Pikes (present-day East McMillan and Gilbert Avenues) in 1883, Peebles Corner contributed significantly to the urban development in Walnut Hills in . . . — — Map (db m164105) HM
Lucy Stone & Henry Blackwell helped found American Woman Suffrage Assn. Spoke at 1855
Woman’s Rights Convention in Cincinnati. Home near here. — — Map (db m197067) HM
[Unfortunately, much of the paint has faded on this marker and much of the text is either unreadable or hard to read.] [Unreadable] Ammons, fireplace •
L.C. Bailey, folding chair •
[Unreadable] •
S. Boone, Ironing . . . — — Map (db m201131) HM
Side A Camp Joy was born at the site of Seven Hills Neighborhood House and original location of St. Barnabas Episcopal Mission Church. Displacement and loss caused by Ohio River flood of 1937 inspired St. Barnabas’ rector and his wife, . . . — — Map (db m134938) HM
Chestnut Street Cemetery. Chestnut Street Cemetery is the first Jewish cemetery in Ohio and the earliest west of the Allegheny Mountains. It was established in 1821 when Nicholas Longworth sold land to Joseph Jonas, David I. Johnson, Morris . . . — — Map (db m243113) HM
Welcome to the site of Crosley Field. Home of the Reds from 1912-1970. The Reds also played at this site in three other ballparks, beginning in 1884. When Crosley Field opened on April 11, 1912, the Titanic was at sea and the park was known as . . . — — Map (db m187228) HM
In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; . . . — — Map (db m235567) HM
Gaines High School. In 1866, Gaines High School (grades 7-12), one of the first high schools for African Americans in Ohio, opened just west of this site in the same building as the Western District Elementary School, completed in 1859 and . . . — — Map (db m23956) HM
George Washington Williams was born in 1849 in Bedford, Pennsylvania. At age 14, he enlisted in the Union Army to fight in the Civil War and received a medical discharge in 1868. In 1874, he became the first African American to graduate from the . . . — — Map (db m25125) HM
On May 5, 1852, delegates from printers societies in name states met here and formed the International Typographical Union. Held in old City Hall, the meeting concluded an effort begun in 1835 when Cincinnati's Franklin Typographic Society proposed . . . — — Map (db m168207) HM
The oldest building in Cincinnati's basin area, the Betts House exemplifies a national trend on the expanding frontier of impermanent log and frame structures giving way to more permanent brick architecture. It is the earliest surviving brick . . . — — Map (db m23943) HM
(front)
Powhatan Beaty
Born in Richmond, Virginia. Powhatan Beaty moved to Cincinnati in 1849, where he spent the majority of his life. Beaty enlisted as a private in the Union Army in June 1863, and two days later was promoted . . . — — Map (db m87543) HM
A desire by the Village of Westwood for a civic center, Westwood Town Hall, crystalized in 1888, twenty years after the village’s founding. A triangular 3-acre lot had been aquired earlier in 1884 from James Slaven. By March 1888, architech . . . — — Map (db m164158) HM
James Norris Gamble, entrepreneur, industrialist, philanthropist and civic leader, is best known for inventing Procter & Gamble's Ivory Soap, the "soap that floats," in 1878. Applying a scientific approach, Gamble transformed P&G into a . . . — — Map (db m172976) HM
Five Miles northwest of Cincinnati in 1868, in a sparsely populated area of southeast Green Township, farmers, local merchants, and landed gentry gathered together to form the Village of Westwood. They envisioned a new community to better control . . . — — Map (db m164159) HM
WWI
In commemoration of the boys of the Westwood school District who answered the call of their country to uphold democracy. Justice and the rights of humananity. 1917- 1918
(361 names )
WWII
This memorial is dedicated to all men and women . . . — — Map (db m164160) WM
“To commemorate the services
of the citizens of Cleves , who
served in the armed forces of
their country. Some of whom made
the supreme sacrifice in World Wars I and II.”
This tablet and drinking fountain
are gratefully . . . — — Map (db m135129) WM
side A Border warfare characterized the American Revolution on the northwest frontier. Between August 26 and September 15, 1781, sixty-four survivors of Lochry's Expedition were held captive by "Butler's Rangers" (British-allied Indians led by . . . — — Map (db m134916) WM
Harrison, later to become the ninth president of the United States,
was a strong supporter of the Cincinnati & Whitewater Canal project
and a major subscriber of stock in the canal company. He sold
land from his North Bend farm for the . . . — — Map (db m238950) HM
While many Ohioans panicked in the path of Confederate
Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's cavalry — hiding their
valuables and fleeing their homes — the Schencks and the
Thompsons resolved to defend both. During the Civil War
this . . . — — Map (db m108238) HM
(South Face)
State Line as resurveyed under a joint resolution passed by Indiana on the 27th Jan. and by Ohio on the 10th March 1837.
(East Face)
Ohio
(North Face)
Erected Nov. 27th, 1838.
(West . . . — — Map (db m219649) HM
Margaret & Elias Longley promoted women's equality in works published near here. Margaret founded Ohio Woman Suffrage Assn. 1869 — — Map (db m239177) HM
More than a week after the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, nearly 2,000 rebel soldiers remained on Northern
soil. In the early morning of July 14, 1863, the crack Confederate
cavalry division of Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan . . . — — Map (db m108240) HM
A school has stood on this site almost continuously
since the late 1840s. The first school here was the
Newell School, a white-frame, one-room school in use
from approximately 1847 to 1939. The building was a
part of the Newell Rural School . . . — — Map (db m180740) HM
At 2 am on July 14, 1863, the sound of hooves on Sharon Avenue's cobblestones interrupted the dark morning stillness. While many townspeople slept, those awakened were terrified by what they saw. Peering from their Glendale College dorm windows, . . . — — Map (db m98212) HM
The large stones used here as fountain elements, benches, and garden accents were quarried from a deposit of granite in Milford, Massachusetts in 1887. These stones artifacts were originally cut for the construction of the Cincinnati Chamber of . . . — — Map (db m134160) HM
Three hundred yards east of this location on Oak Road, overlooking
the Miami & Erie Canal, was the house of abolitionist John Van Zandt
1791-1847). For years this house was known as one of the most active
"stations” on the Underground . . . — — Map (db m133584) HM
Established in 1851 after the addition of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway, Glendale incorporated in 1855 as Ohio's first planned community and one of the nation's first planned villages. The original planning included forested . . . — — Map (db m19925) HM
This lovely land, acquired by William and Mary J. Burchenal in 1936, was a 360-acre working farm.
Black Angus cattle grazed in the pasture below and corn and soybeans were grown in the fields beyond. Across the creek were hay fields and an apple . . . — — Map (db m134159) HM
Greenhills – Forest Park Journal, volume 29 July 4, 1976, number 14, dedicated to the City of Greenhills Ohio, Commemorating our nation’s bicentennial and freedom of the press.
The history of our model Greenbelt community, found in . . . — — Map (db m180777) HM
Considered a bold experiment in community planning, Greenhills
was intended to relieve an acute housing shortage and to provide
jobs during the Great Depression. In 1935, the administration
of President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the . . . — — Map (db m180742) HM
The Village of Greenhills is nationally significant as one of three U.S. Government-sponsored, planned communities designed and built as a reflection of American Garden-City principles during the Great Depression era of the 1930s.
A legacy of . . . — — Map (db m180790) HM
The Fernald Feed Materials Production Center initiated operations on this site in October 1951, in support of America's Cold War effort. As the first link in America's nuclear weapons production cycle, Fernald's mission was to produce high purity . . . — — Map (db m227794) HM
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