This stone column is from a building that stood at this
location in the 1840s. The building was at the corner of
Water Street and Vine Street. A series of different
businesses occupied the site over the years. The Simmons
Milling Company was in . . . — — Map (db m136167) HM
Built in 1857, 100-104 W. Elder were originally three separate buildings each with a storefront. The earliest commercial uses included a grocery store, a pharmacy, and a dry goods shop. More recently, Mackie's Meat Market occupied the storefront of . . . — — Map (db m298837) HM
Built in the early 1860s, 101 W. Elder was home to many different commercial buildings such as a grocery store, a dry goods shop, a shoe store, and a 5-cent store. Italian immigrant, Carmine Iacobucci, then purchased the building in 1970 for his . . . — — Map (db m298841) HM
Built in the early 1860s, 103 W. Elder was home to a series of dry goods groceries in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the 1930s and during World War II, it briefly was a hardware store, a variety store, and a confectionery. From 1966 through the . . . — — Map (db m298842) HM
Built in the early 1860s along with its neighbor at 107 W. Elder, 105 W. Elder was first home to Friedrich Ulhmann and his family's dry goods store from the 1860s to 1875. Throughout the 19th century and early 20th century, four families typically . . . — — Map (db m298843) HM
Built around 1860, 106 W. Elder housed many different buildings - a grocery store, a bank, and a dry goods shop. In 1938, Elmer Heist purchased 106 W. Elder for Heist Fish & Poultry. Elmer, as a long term Findlay Market vendor, was on the Findlay . . . — — Map (db m298836) HM
107 W. Elder, a three-story Italianate brick building with a first-floor storefront and residential quarters above, was built in 1860 and housed several saloons over its initial years. Evans Cafe, a restaurant and bar with a troubled reputation, . . . — — Map (db m298844) HM
109 W. Elder first appeared in city directories in the 1860s and housed a variety of businesses over its early years. From the 1870s until the early 1900s, Moses Goldsmith and his family, all German Jewish immigrants, ran a store at 109 Elder, . . . — — Map (db m298845) HM
Built in 1860, 110 W. Elder was initially home to immigrant-run coffee houses and saloons followed by a series of boot and shoe stores. At the turn of the 20th century, the storefront transitioned to a dry goods grocery. Then, from 1902 to 1922, . . . — — Map (db m298835) HM
Built in the last years of the Civil War, 111-113 W. Elder operated like many of the neighboring structures where both buildings housed first-floor businesses and provided upstairs apartments for families and individuals. The history of 111-113 W. . . . — — Map (db m298846) HM
This building was formerly three separate buildings with two, sometimes three, storefronts in operation. The earliest business uses of the buildings included coffee houses and dry goods shops. The famous company, Alms & Doepke, has connections to . . . — — Map (db m298834) HM
118-120 Elder were two buildings that fronted Elder Street. John F Moser used both buildings for his grocery and saloon from 1858 until 1885. When John was not utilizing the storefronts, a series of notion shops, all run by German immigrants, . . . — — Map (db m298833) HM
Built in 1862, 119-121 W. Elder was home to several longstanding businesses over the late 1800s and throughout the 20th century which included a bakery, a hardware store and a saloon. The building also housed residential tenants - overwhelmingly . . . — — Map (db m298847) HM
Built in 1861, 122 W. Elder first housed Henry Vancliff's dry goods shop in 1861-1863. Other early commercial tenants included dry goods merchants, a millinery shop, a shoe shop and a notions store. The longest standing occupant was Kathryn Bentz . . . — — Map (db m298829) HM
Built in 1860, 123-127 W. Elder were originally three separate wood-frame buildings. These early structures provided commercial space for numerous businesses over the late 1800s including a coffee house, a tailoring business, a saloon, a grocery, a . . . — — Map (db m298848) HM
Built in 1861, 124 W. Elder first housed coffee shop proprietor William Schrendenbach. After the turn of the century, commercial businesses housed in the space included a millinery shop, a candy shop, a toy store, and a furniture store. From the . . . — — Map (db m298828) HM
Built in 1863, 126 W. Elder was home to several chinaware businesses in the 1800s before it became a millinery shop at the turn of the 20th century. It sat vacant during the 1980s and much of the 1990s until Ladies Choice Fashion leased the . . . — — Map (db m298827) HM
Built in 1861, 128 W. Elder first housed a grocery store, a chinaware shop, and a shoe store. The building sat vacant in 1939 and 1940, and in 1941, William Harold Brooks started his Elder Café. He managed it until 1965, and even after that, the . . . — — Map (db m298825) HM
129 W. Elder is a three-story Italianate building that was used to house different businesses over the years such as a flour shop, a grocery store, and a bakery. Throughout all of its storefront uses in the late 1800s and early 1900s, several . . . — — Map (db m298850) HM
Built in the early 1870s, 130-134 W. Elder has been known as the Leader Furniture building for many years. Formerly, it was once three distinct buildings. Original commercial tenants included a shoe store, a clothing shop, and a bakery. Leader . . . — — Map (db m298822) HM
Built around 1865, 131 W. Elder operated as its neighboring buildings did with a first-floor commercial space and residential apartments above. The earliest commercial uses included a coffee house, a woodworking shop, a bakery, a shoe store, and a . . . — — Map (db m298851) HM
Built in 1878, 133 W. Elder was home to many different types of commercial businesses such as clothing stores and grocery stores. The building is much the same today as the year it was built. On average, 5-6 families lived upstairs over the course . . . — — Map (db m298852) HM
Built in the 1860s, 135 W. Elder had an active storefront with residential lodging on its upper floors. The earliest commercial uses of this space included a tailor shop, a grocery, and a clothing store. It sat vacant in the mid-1980s until its . . . — — Map (db m298853) HM
The double townhouse at 320-322 Broadway was built in 1850 for Captain Christopher G. Pearce, superintendent, Louisville and Cincinnati Mail Line and owner of a substantial number of steamboats.
From the late 1870's until 1920, the property was . . . — — Map (db m239193) HM
Built in the 1860s, this one-story building was formerly several three-story buildings save for one. Numerous businesses in the late 1800s utilized the storefronts including a mineral water manufacturer, a police station, a confectionery, a saloon, . . . — — Map (db m298839) HM
Built in the 1860s, 1739 Elm had three long-standing furniture businesses at this address: Fraenzel's Furniture Company from the late 1870s through World War I, Fabian Haussler & Sons' furniture store in the 1920s and Sol Levine's Crown Furniture . . . — — Map (db m298699) HM
In 1749, the French in North America perceived a threat by British expansion west of the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River Valley and beyond. The French commander, Pierre Joseph Celeron, sieur de Blainville, with 250 men, left Montreal, New . . . — — Map (db m24610) HM
1800 Race is different from most other structures surrounding Findlay Market in that it had just one commercial tenant from the late 1860s to the 1960s. Muhlberg Drugs was run by German immigrant William Muhlberg and his sons, Edward and Victor, and . . . — — Map (db m298838) HM
Built in the 1850s, the Globe Building was home to many different types of businesses over the years including coffee houses, saloons, and hat-making businesses. During the turn of the century, the Globe Building housed three different furniture . . . — — Map (db m298700) HM
James Findlay was an early and prominent settler in Cincinnati. Born in 1770, he moved to Cincinnati with his wife, Jane, in 1793. Here, he ran a general merchandise store near the riverfront, and later served as Mayor. As an early investor in . . . — — Map (db m298702) HM
Unlike other historic buildings in Over-the-Rhine that housed a few primary businesses over the years, 1818- 1824 Race defy all easy categorizing in that they never sat vacant. These four buildings, each four stories tall, brick and Italianate in . . . — — Map (db m298840) HM
1819 Elm was home to several businesses including two shoemakers and numerous tenants. Beginning in the early 1900s, it housed the Guarantee Deposit Bank until the mid-1920s. In the early to mid-1900s, 1819 Elm was home to about fifteen families, . . . — — Map (db m298817) HM
Based on a thirteenth century design from the Chartres Cathedral, the labyrinth is designed to be a peaceful place of quiet meditation. It is different from a maze in that there is only one path in and out. It has been said that you enter a maze to . . . — — Map (db m239179) HM
Albert B. Sabin developed the oral, live-virus polio vaccine
at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and
Children’s Hospital Research Foundation, where between 1939
and 1969, he conducted his most significant research.
His vaccine . . . — — Map (db m171669) HM
Albert Bettinger
of Cincinnati
A.D. 1854 A.D. 1922
One of the pioneers of waterway
improvements throughout the United
States and an especially earnest
and eloquent advocate of the
canalization of the Ohio River
He blazed the trail that those . . . — — Map (db m135214) 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 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
Aqueducts carry water great distances to areas that do not have their own water supply. Middle Eastern cultures have used them since at least the 10th Century BCE (Before the Common Era).
Early aqueducts — some of which are still in use . . . — — Map (db m201156) HM
On this property in 1831 Bishop Edward Fenwick established a college known as the Anthenaeum and placed it under the patronage of St. Francis Xavier.
In 1840 his successor, Bishop John Baptist Purcell, gave the College to members of the . . . — — Map (db m42659) 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 m304782) 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
The “Little Wilderness” of the 1700's became Lytle Square in 1809 and the setting for this brick mansion of General William H. Lytle, first Surveyor-General of the Northwest Territory and the State of Ohio. The home was razed in 1907. . . . — — Map (db m24884) HM
The Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961,
the totalitarian government
of East Germany split Berlin
with a wall of concrete.
Free expression of thought
disappeared, From 1961
to 1989 some 130 people
were killed attempting to
escape through . . . — — Map (db m130350) 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
In the twilight of July 13, 1863, flames from the New Baltimore bridge lit the northwest sky. Slow-moving columns of dusty cavalrymen approached Bevis crossroads from the shadows Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan's Raiders quietly . . . — — Map (db m133650) HM
Welcome to a spectacular recreational area created as a gift from the people of Cincinnati to the people of Cincinnati in honor of the city's Bicentennial in 1988.
Originally, this land was an untouched tree-covered bank along a . . . — — Map (db m25597) HM
Side A:
Following the success of Confederate forces in eastern Kentucky and General John Hunt Morgan's raids there in 1862, Cincinnatians believed that Southern invasion was imminent. Anxious officials ordered Cincinnati citizens to form home . . . — — Map (db m24617) HM
White Volunteers Enlist to Defend Cincinnati
Thousands of local men report to volunteer to help build and defend fortifications in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. They are joined by twelve thousand volunteer militia from all over the . . . — — Map (db m244949) HM
500 feet west of this marker near the big spring is the site of the the blockhouse erected by Capt. Aaron Mercer in 1792 establishing Mercersburgh later known as Newtown. First settlement in Anderson Township — — Map (db m133278) HM
How could you save a species?
The Cincinnati Zoo led the effort to reintroduce the blue-and-yellow macaw to its home range on the island of Trinidad. Between 1999 and 2003, 31 birds were imported from Guyana and released in . . . — — Map (db m201192) HM
Have you ever made a discovery?
The Blue-throated Macaw was once thought to be extinct. A population of about 50 birds was rediscovered living in palm tree groves on the savannas of Bolivia. Conservation programs have worked to . . . — — Map (db m201191) HM
A Neighborhood That No Longer Exists
Cincinnati is a city of neighborhoods. One of them is very, very special—because it is no longer there. The Bottoms: a dense urban neighborhood full of churches, full of people. It ran from the River . . . — — Map (db m24995) HM
Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling (1859-1943) founded Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity on November 13, 1903, at the Metropolitan School of Music in Cincinnati, where he served as dean. The Victorian frame house was built by his . . . — — Map (db m24845) HM
The Cincinnati Zoo is one of few U.S. zoos to successfully breed Steller's sea eagles. We have produced over a dozen chicks in cooperation with the Association of Zoos & Aquariums' Species Survival Plan (SSP), a program that works to maintain . . . — — Map (db m201133) HM
This period is marked by an increased use of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, and greater urbanization, as larger city-states grew, surrounded by fortified walls. The economy was mainly agricultural, with the appearance of olives used for oil . . . — — Map (db m201177) HM
People became more urbanized, built fortified towns, and developed the skill to mix tin with copper to an alloy called bronze, which they used to make tools and weapons.
[Captions:]
Bronze Axes and Arrow Heads
Ceramic . . . — — Map (db m201186) 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
Welcome to the Lick Run Greenway, a "green" way of managing rainwater. The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) built the Greenway to help make the Mill Creek cleaner and healthier.
When it rains, runoff from this area flows . . . — — Map (db m298698) HM
When it opened May 30, 1850, the 340-room hotel located on this site was considered one of the finest hotels in the world. Abraham Lincoln stayed here on September 17-18, 1859, while campaigning for the Ohio Republican Party. Lincoln also stayed at . . . — — Map (db m98117) HM
The Byzantine Period was a time of relative peace, during which the Christian populations were consolidated and Christian institutions were established in the Holy Land. The man responsible was Emperor Constantine, who converted to Christianity . . . — — Map (db m201171) HM
The region under the authority of the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of Western Empire.
[Captions:]
Stone beam from a synagogue at Capernaum
Gold Ring - The design is though to represent the Church of the Holy . . . — — Map (db m201180) 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
Dedicated by the citizens of
Camp Washington
to those of their number
who offered their lives
in defense of humanity
in the
World War
1917 - 1918 — — Map (db m184501) WM
The twins, Romulus and Remus, according to folklore, were left on the flooded banks of the Tiber River by their cruel uncle who had taken the throne from their grandfather. They were saved from starvation when & mother wolf heard their cries and . . . — — Map (db m310921) HM
1980 • The Cat Ambassador Program was founded by Cathryn Hilker, who had love of cheetahs and wanted to help save them and inspire people to care about them. She started with the first ambassador cheetah, Angel, hand-raised her and trained . . . — — Map (db m279731) HM
The Cathedral of St. Peter In Chains has ministered to Catholics in Ohio for more than 175 years. In 1840, Bishop John Baptist Purcell recognized the need for a cathedral to serve his growing catholic immigrant community and asked architect Henry . . . — — Map (db m250874) HM
Over the past two centuries, Ohio's forests and wildlife have endured a roller coaster ride of decline and recovery.
1800s: When Ohio became a state in 1803, more than 95% of its land was covered with forest teeming with wildlife . . . — — Map (db m201151) HM
Metalwork technology progressed with the smelting of copper-bearing stones. Besides using copper for more efficient tools and utensils, people also made copper objects that appear to have religious significance, like crowns and maces. Trade with . . . — — Map (db m201178) HM
Although stone tools were still used, copper tools were introduced during this period, indicating the beginning of metalworking technology.
[Captions:]
Ceramic bowl which was used as a utensil to store food.
Copper Tools . . . — — Map (db m201187) HM
Clermont County
Bicentennial Marker
Chapel- Mt. Moriah United Methodist Church.
Organized in 1835 as the
Methodist Protestant Church
of Tobasco. Meetings were
held in a schoolhouse
until 1842, when the
church erected this small
brick . . . — — Map (db m99694) 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
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
In 1817 twenty-two men, including future President William Henry Harrison, chartered Cincinnati's first Episcopal parish, Christ Church. In 1835 members erected a Gothic Revival-style church on this site. The neighborhood evolved as the city grew . . . — — Map (db m171626) HM
The Church
Families of Salem settlement first held services in Francis McCormick's log home. When he gave land in 1817 for a church and public school, they built a log church on this site, later replacing it with a brick building. In 1863 the . . . — — Map (db m19922) HM
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
Cincinnati Bell Telephone Building
built in 1930
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1995 — — Map (db m201200) HM
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 founded . . . — — Map (db m253250) 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
In Memory
of the
Cincinnati Fire Fighters
who died in the line of duty
serving in the first paid
professional fire department
in the United States — — Map (db m24087) HM
Cincinnati Gilded Brew
Gilded Brew traverses the Gilded Age through the industrialization of brewing, the birth of America's first brewery union, and the growing gap between Cincinnati's "beer barons" and the workers who produced some of the . . . — — Map (db m298705) HM
has been entered in the
National Register of
Historic Places
by the National Park Service
United States
Department of Interior
Feb. 17, 1983 — — Map (db m187802) 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
“Come let us live with our children” – Friedrich Froebel
On this site stood the Cincinnati
Kindergarten Training School
Pioneer in the training of
teachers of young children and
the establishment of Mothers . . . — — Map (db m250129) HM
Side A:
Prompted by response to his popular lectures, astronomer Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1809-1862) founded the Cincinnati Astronomical Society (CAS) in 1842. With CAS funding, Mitchel traveled to Munich, Bavaria, to acquire the optical . . . — — Map (db m24623) HM
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, built . . . — — Map (db m253246) HM
The 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings made history not only as the most dominant baseball club of its time, but also as the first band of professional ballplayers. Cincinnati's decision to pay players proved to be a success, and other cities soon began . . . — — Map (db m172448) HM
Cincinnati Riots of 1884
In March 1884, public confidence of Cincinnati law enforcement was extremely low. The public believed that murderers and other serious offenders were not brought to justice promptly or received little punishment. Civil . . . — — Map (db m168206) HM
The Cincinnati Stock Exchange (CSE), founded in 1885, was headquartered in the Dixie Terminal Building at 49 East 4th Street. The CSE emerged as an innovator in stock trading when it started the nation’s first computerized stock exchange in 1976, . . . — — Map (db m250714) HM
The Cincinnati Union Terminal opened in March 1933 and integrated rail travel in the city, which previously operated from five separate passenger terminals. Built when rail travel was already in decline, Union Terminal stopped operating as a . . . — — Map (db m23939) HM
For many years, Lytle Park echoed the shrieks and laughter of Cincinnati's children. It was dedicated as the city's first public playground, a respite for already crowded inner-city dwellers, on the sunny afternoon of July 6, 1907. The Lytle estate . . . — — Map (db m24907) HM
Side A:
Cincinnati, along with Milwaukee and St. Louis, is one of the three corners of the "German Triangle," so-called for its historically high concentration of German-American residents. During the 19th century, Cincinnati was both a . . . — — Map (db m24615) 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 Cleves Warsaw Road Bridge, a 244 foot long camelback through truss carried County Road 209 over Muddy Creek from 1923 to 2013. The bridge was constructed by the Brackett Construction Company of Cincinnati. Plans were completed by the . . . — — Map (db m135132) HM
The Clifton location of Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati was founded in 1848, as a resting place for deceased members of Congregation Ahabath Achim, an Orthodox Jewish congregation that later merged with Shearith Israel, and then with Isaac . . . — — Map (db m187352) 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
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
