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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati is the county seat for Hamilton County
Cincinnati is in Hamilton County
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John A Roebling (1806-1869), pioneer civil engineer, was the designer and builder of the Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge which was completed in 1866. It served as the prototype for Roebling's design of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was . . . — — Map (db m239196) HM
From 1967 to 1983, Johnny Bench redefined the catching position, combining offensive prowess and defensive excellence like no catcher before or since. A 14-time All-Star, 10-time Gold Glove winner, and two-time league MVP, Bench was an essential . . . — — Map (db m201125) HM
West Fourth Street Historic District
Original home of the
E. A. Kinsey Company,
railway & machinery distributors,
1890s 1920s
Redeveloped by
Middle Earth Developers, Inc.
2003 — — Map (db m187229) HM
The legendary Roman is seen here after he had defeated the Aequians and rescued the trapped Roman army. With one hand he returns the fasces, symbol of power as appointed dictator of Rome. His other hand holds the plow, as he resumes the life of a . . . — — Map (db m25596) HM
Lytle Park was a showplace at Christmas time for 28 years from 1939 to 1967. Thousands crowded here to view the annual Nativity Crib of the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company complete with live animals. The crib has been moved to Eden Park. — — Map (db m24927) HM
Welcome to Lytle, the park that was rescued from 20th Century progress. Discovered by Cincinnati's first settlers in 1788 as wilderness, then a grove of peach trees, it became the grounds to an elegant estate and, later, the city's first public . . . — — Map (db m24876) HM
Time has changed much of Lytle's surroundings. These handsome townhouses which stood on East Fourth Street were residences of many of Cincinnati's most prominent citizens. Most of the homes became service and civic clubs in the 20th Century and . . . — — Map (db m24928) HM
Led the desegregation of Coney Island.
First African-American woman elected to Cincinnati City Council.
Fought to desegregate public schools. — — Map (db m245184) HM
On June 25, 1839, Greater Cincinnati Water Works
became the first publicly owned water system in
Ohio, when the city purchased a privately owned
water company in operation since 1821. This
purchase required approval of the voters of
Cincinnati . . . — — Map (db m171969) HM
Lytle Park echoed the excitement of July 28, 1908, when President William Howard Taft (1909-1913) was officially notified of his nomination to the Presidency at the Taft home of his half-brother Charles. — — Map (db m24908) HM
Begun as a partnership between soap maker William Procter and candle maker James Gamble in 1837, Procter & Gamble (P&G) grew from its roots to become one of the world's largest and best-known consumer products companies. Building on Civil War . . . — — Map (db m24600) HM
Side A:
Among the first in America, Cincinnati's public library dates from March 14, 1853. A public reading room opened in 1856, but funding remained a problem until 1867, when local school board president Rufus King II secured legislation for a . . . — — Map (db m24088) HM
Dedicated to the recipients of the nation's oldest military decoration the Purple Heart
My stone is red for
The blood they shed.
The medal I bear
Is my country's way
To show they care.
If I could be seen
By all . . . — — Map (db m201126) WM
This historic synagogue symbolizes the work of one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American Jewry, Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900). The Bohemian-born rabbi's many achievements include the establishment of the Union of American . . . — — Map (db m24089) HM
The first African American artist to achieve international acclaim, painter Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872) was born in New York and settled in Cincinnati in 1840. He pursued his artistic career during a time of tremendous racial prejudice and was . . . — — Map (db m24854) HM
Salmon Portland Chase, a renowned lawyer and statesman, was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 13, 1808. He came to Ohio in 1820 and attended Cincinnati College (1822-23). Chase returned to New Hampshire and graduated from Dartmouth . . . — — Map (db m24621) HM
On the site of this school
between the years 1846 - 1850 lived
Stephen C. Foster
Master of the Art of Song
Composer of
My Old Kentucky Home
Swanee River
Old Black Joe
and many others
In Native ballad form and . . . — — Map (db m43654) HM
This Federal house was begun about 1820 for Martin Baum (1765-1831), one of Cincinnati's early merchants. Art patron and abolitionist Nicholas Longworth (1782-1863) lived here for more than thirty years and commissioned the notable landscape murals . . . — — Map (db m24602) HM
Ted Kluszewski was an imposing physical specimen, a quintessential power hitter and the inspiration for Cincinnati's sleeveless uniforms. With room for his bulging biceps to move, “Big Klu” muscled his way through the 1950s, averaging . . . — — Map (db m52827) HM
In 1862, less than a mile upriver from this marker, the John Lithoberry Shipyard in Cincinnati constructed the Sultana, a 260-foot, wooden steam transport. At the end of the Civil War, the U.S. Government contracted the Sultana to . . . — — Map (db m24614) 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
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
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
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
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
Side A:
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
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
Eleven concertgoers trapped in a crush of people, died at the southwest plaza entrance to Riverfront Coliseum waiting to see The Who. Many others were injured in what was the deadliest concert tragedy in United States history. The tragedy spurred . . . — — Map (db m239183) HM
Margaret & Elias Longley promoted Women's Equality in works published near here. Margaret founded Ohio Woman Suffrage Assn. 1869. — — Map (db m224033) HM
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
This one-of-a-kind structure was designed and built by Cincinnatis 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
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 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
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Greendale
William Resor House
1843 — — Map (db m187351) HM
1888
James W. McLaughlin, architect
Lloyd House
John Uri Lloyd, 1848-1936
the wizard of American plant pharmacy and chemistry
founder of the Lloyd Library
National Register of . . . — — Map (db m187346) HM
Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair
1736 - 1818
The city of Cincinnati was named by General St. Clair
Hamilton County was created by
His proclamation Jan. 4, 1790
First governor of the Northwest Territory Oct. 5, 1787
Major General . . . — — Map (db m43995) HM
A gift from Henry Probasco to the People of Clifton, the fountain was designed by Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford, and was inspired by the 16th century fountains in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. Originally set within Clifton Avenue to . . . — — Map (db m187345) 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
This spring fed watering trough was erected by Giles Richards (1792-1876) in 1867 and has provided water to travelers and livestock ever since. Richards owned and operated a number of enterprises in Colerain Township starting in the early 1800s. . . . — — Map (db m224713) HM
Throughout Greg Snyder's
long career with Colerain
Township, he has taken
great pride in preserving our history and
serving our great community. From his days
as a firefighter through his tenure as Director
of Parks & Services and Special . . . — — Map (db m167253) HM
John T. Crawford (1813-1880), was a white Union soldier. In gratitude for the kindnesses he received from African-Americans during the Civil War, Crawford willed his 18 1/2-acre farm to be used as a "home, for aged, indigent worthy colored men, . . . — — Map (db m227791) HM
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
James Jarrett, Jr. learned piano in
Cincinnati at Harriet Beecher Stowe
School, helping his teacher Lillian
Drayton after school. He learned
Barrelhouse Blues in Southgate Alley
speakeasies in Newport, Ky, then moved
on to riverboats, a . . . — — Map (db m187357) HM
Albert B. Sabin developed the oral, live-virus polio vaccine
at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and
Childrens Hospital Research Foundation, where between 1939
and 1969, he conducted his most significant research.
His vaccine . . . — — Map (db m171669) HM
Daniel Drake (1785-1852) was an influential figure in 19th century American medicine, gaining fame as physician, scientist, author, educator, and ardent champion for the City of Cincinnati. In 1819, Drake was the founding president of the Medical . . . — — Map (db m227792) HM
Hebrew Union College (HUC), founded in Cincinnati in 1875, is the oldest institution of higher Jewish learning in the United States. Its founder, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), was a leading proponent of Reform Judaism in America. In 1950, the . . . — — Map (db m24847) HM
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
Columbia Baptist Cemetery
On the higher ground at the end of this lane
is Columbia Baptist Cemetery, the last
resting place of many of the pioneers who
came with Major Benjamin Stites and founded
Columbia, November 18, 1788, the first . . . — — Map (db m134948) HM
Columbia Presbyterian & Fulton Cemeteries The cemetery dates to 1794 and is comprised of two adjacent cemeteries: Columbia Presbyterian Cemetery and Fulton Cemetery. Another cemetery, the Fulton Mechanics Cemetery, had been in Fulton, a village . . . — — Map (db m134942) HM WM
The first meetinghouse of the Columbia Baptist Church- the earliest in Ohio- stood on this site.
In 1787, Captain Benjamin Stites traveled down the Ohio River with supplies to assist the new settlements in Kentucky. Captain Stites ventured across . . . — — Map (db m135250) HM
to the Pioneers
landing near this spot, Nov. 18,1788
The Baptists
of Columbia Township, in 1889
erect this pillar to commemorate the heroism and piety
the first Baptist pioneers of 1788- 90
the first church in the Northwest territory was . . . — — Map (db m135215) HM
This landmark was the location
of the top terminus of the
Price Hill Incline
Built 1874 and operated until 1943
It was also part of the site of
the historic Price Hill House — — Map (db m187292) HM
May 6, 1874-July 9, 1921.
President, Cincinnati Rotary Club 1914-1915.
Commanding Officer, 147th Infantry Regiment Ohio National Guard, World War I.
First National Commander, American Legion 1920. — — Map (db m78208) HM WM
Mary Harlan Doherty was born in 1862 in the Dayton Street neighborhood of Cincinnati. She graduated from Woodward High School in 1880 at a time when women were not expected to go to college, but rather to marry, raise children, and take care of . . . — — Map (db m24624) HM
From 1943-1971 King Records forever changed American music. Owner Syd Nathan gave the world bluegrass, R&B, rock and roll, doo-wop, country, soul and funk. With stars from James Brown to the Stanley Brothers and its innovative, integrated business . . . — — Map (db m169856) HM
Erected by St Marys
Congregation----In
honor of the men who
served their country
during the World War
1917---1918
Sacred to the memory of
those who died for Liberty,
Justice and Peace
Joseph Dermody
Frank Mullarkey . . . — — Map (db m106311) WM
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
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
Designed award-winning "Let Ohio Women Vote" Poster 1912 for Ohio suffrage campaigns. Studied and exhibited here at Art Academy and Museum. — — Map (db m221964) HM
“The Bridge of the Arts”
Dedicated September 12, 1931. Restored 2015
Designed by J. R. Biedinger
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places
In grateful appreciation of the Mount Adams Civic Association for its generous . . . — — Map (db m113325) HM
Originally called Mt. Ida, Mt. Adams was a significant section of the Nicholas Longworth Vineyard, which developed the Catawba grape from which America's first champagne was produced. The name was changed to Mt. Adams in 1843 to honor President John . . . — — Map (db m113323) HM
Mt. Adams
Originally a forest towering above Ft. Washington; then a vineyard on the Nicholas Longworth Estate, the mansion house of which is the Taft Museum; then a neighborhood of German and Irish immigrants; later an enclave of artisans . . . — — Map (db m113324) HM
Pilgrim Chapel began as a mission of the First Presbyterian Church in 1882. It was originally located in downtown Cincinnati. The Church was moved to Mt. Adams and has served the Protestant Community since its dedication on May 1, 1886. Catholics . . . — — Map (db m113312) 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
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.
- - - - - -
General Arthur St. Clair
and his army encamped
here from Aug. 1st
to Sept. 17th, 1791.
- - - - - -
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
