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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio and Vicinity
▶ Hamilton County(180) ▶ Butler County(106) ▶ Clermont County(77) ▶ Warren County(77) ▶ Dearborn County, Indiana(35) ▶ Franklin County, Indiana(48) ▶ Boone County, Kentucky(34) ▶ Campbell County, Kentucky(10) ▶ Kenton County, Kentucky(34)
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On Clark Street, on the right when traveling west.
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
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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
On Vine Street at Third Street East on Vine Street.
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 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
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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
On Belmont Avenue just west of Pasadena Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
The first in a succession of schools that eventually gave College Hill its name was CARY'S ACADEMY FOR BOYS. Freeman Cary opened this school in his home on Hamilton Avenue in 1832. Success necessitated larger quarters and in 1833 . . . — — Map (db m158447) HM
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Flatboats on the Ohio River brought many of the first Irish, some with land grants received after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, to the Cincinnati area. In 1789, Francis Kennedy arrived in Losantiville, where he operated . . . — — Map (db m24611) HM
On Clifton Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995), pioneering historian of the American Jew, founded the American Jewish Archives (AJA) in Cincinnati in 1947. In the aftermath of World War II and the brutal destruction of European Jewry, Marcus anticipated the . . . — — Map (db m24849) HM
On Vine Street at 15th Street, on the right when traveling north on Vine Street.
The Kroger Co. Near this site in 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 Great Western Tea . . . — — Map (db m133320) HM
On Central Parkway at West Fourteenth Street, in the median on Central Parkway.
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
Elegance has surrounded Lytle almost from the beginning. This imposing, Federal-style mansion, built by Martin Baum in 1820, became the social and cultural center of Cincinnati in the mid-1880's under the ownership of Nicholas Longworth, a noted . . . — — Map (db m24894) HM
On Chester Road at Oak Road, on the left when traveling south on Chester Road.
In the year 1792, Henry Tucker started clearing land and erecting a Station House on the old Indian Trace in what is now the village of Woodlawn. He had purchased the land from John Cleves Symmes for two dollars per acre. Fear of Indian Attack drove . . . — — Map (db m76291) HM
On Anthony Wayne Avenue north of Center City Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Here, at the third crossing of Mill Creek, Jacob
White, in 1790, built a stockaded settlement consisting
of six cabins and a blockhouse. White’s Station
was one of several walled settlements which
guarded the approaches of Cincinnati and . . . — — Map (db m76218) HM
On Auburn Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
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 University . . . — — Map (db m59348) HM
On 9th Street (U.S. 22) at Doerr Alley, on the right when traveling west on 9th Street.
In 1836, Paul Rust, cabinetmaker was selling “coffins”. Developed into a modern funeral home by three generations of the Wiltsee family. The operation was entrusted in 1945 to two employees, Schaefer & Busby. It is now Ohio's oldest . . . — — Map (db m24309) HM
On Sycamore Street at East 13th Street, on the right when traveling north on Sycamore Street.
Side A: 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 . . . — — Map (db m24596) HM
This one-of-a-kind structure was designed and built by Cincinnati’s Verdin Company. Sensors under the piano keys electronically cause the strikers at the top of the structure to ring the chimes.
The chimes themselves are historic. They were . . . — — Map (db m98037) HM
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