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Subject: [OHROOTS] Cincinnati Villages and Localities 1880 - 1900
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The Following comes from Henry Howe's, "Historical Collections of Ohio" the
Hamilton county section. Pages: 863 - 866

Please do not ask for look-ups because this is all there is.

VILLAGES AND LOCALITIES.

AVONDALE is on the hills, three miles north of Fountain Square, and was
in­corporated as a municipality in 1854. It is one of the most important and
beautiful of the suburbs; practically is but a continuation of the city. It
adjoins the city north of WALNUT HILLS, while the latter, formerly a village with a
slight population, is now a part of the city, with about 40,000 inhabitants.

The Hills come up close to the Ohio valley in places quite abrupt and about
400 feet above it. In calm summer nights, standing on the hill verge, the
voices of the people below, on the narrow marge between the foot of the hill and
river, often rise to the hearing. The views up the river are here very grand,
and from its most elevated points one can see highlands south in Kentucky,
twenty-five miles away, and alike far north in Ohio.

The long-noted Lane Seminary is on Walnut Hills, with some line new
build­ings, with their backs turned to the old, which yet stand humbly behind them.
Walnut Hills, for grandeur of scenery, united with beauty of its homes, with
lawns and gardens more or less in undulating dimpling spots, has scarcely an
equal within our knowledge. It has such a surprising variety of domestic
architecture, palatial and especially cottage odd and ornate, apparently the creations
of architects on a strife to outdo each other in novel blending of
materials, in contrast of colors, in proportions, pinnacles and points, that one might
define it as a locality where domestic architecture was out on a frolic. From
these inhabitants daily rapidly go whisking down in cable and electric cars
to their business in the basin below, to provide the means to continue to dwell
in their beautiful homes above. One of these lines—a horse-car line it is—
goes through Eden Park to the spot,


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Mount Adams, where, forty years ago, astronomer MITCHEL had his observatory,
and looked through his big telescope at Jupiter and his family of moons. Then
the car, with its occupants, horses, and all go down the inclined plane in
about one minute, when horses drawn the car from the platform, and pursue their
journey into the house-lined streets.

MOUNT AUBURN, also now a part of the city lies west of Walnut Hills, being
separated from the last by the valley of Deer creek. It also abounds in elegant
residences.

CLIFTON lies west of Avondale and north of Burnet Woods Park, and was
in­corporated as a town in 1849. It derives its name from the Clifton Farm,
comprises about 1,200 acres, is beautifully diversified with hill and dale, and has
about 1,200 inhabitants. In its precincts it, has neither shop, factory, saloon
nor division fences. It has seventeen miles of avenues, lined with fine
shade trees, of which thousands have been planted; also some magnificent
residences. The town hall contains the school-room, and its main hall is elegantly
frescoed. The ladies of the Sacred Heart have also a school for girls, with
spacious and beautiful grounds.

PRICE HILL is west of the city plain, some 400 feet above it, and is in the
city limits. It is reached by an inclined plane and the Warsaw Pike. It
commands extensive views of river, city and country, and has elegant residences,
con­vents and colleges.

CUMMINSVILLE, a part of Cincinnati by annexation, is five miles north of the
business centre of the city. The place was named after David CUMMINS, owner
of a tannery, whose extensive property and that of another family named
HUTCHINSON, comprised nearly the entire site of the present town. The early
settlement was known as LUDLOW STATION, established, in 1790 by Israel LUDLOW, Daniel
BATES, Thomas GOUDY (said to have been the first Cincinnati lawyer), John N.
CUMMINS, Uriah HARDESTY and others. This station is noted as being the place
where Gen. ST. CLAIR organized his army in 1791. It was deserted and
reoccupied by turns until peace was established with the Indians in 1795. Newspaper:
Transcript, Independent, A. E.WEATHERBY, editor. Churches: 1 Protestant,
Episcopal, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Christian, 2 Catholic, and 1
Colored Methodist Episcopal.

HARRISON, on the Indiana State line, is twenty-five miles northwest of
Cincin­nati, on the C. I., St. L. & C. R. L. Newspaper: News, Independent, Walter
HARTPENCE, editor and proprietor. Churches: 1 Christian, 1 Presbyterian, 1
Methodist, 1 German Lutheran, 1 Catholic, and 1 German Protestant. Industries:
Furniture factories, 2 distilleries, 3 flouring mills, etc. Banks: Citizens’
(Frank BOWLES, cashier; J. A. GRAFT, James A. GRAFT, cashier. Population in
1880 1,850. School census in 1886, 588. R. Maxwell BOGGS, superintendent.

This village is noted as the point where John MORGAN on his raid entered
Ohio. It was a thorough surprise. About one o’clock, in the afternoon of July
13, 1863, the advance of the command was seen streaming down the hill, on the
west side of the valley, and the alarm was at once given. Citizens hurried to
secrete valuables and run off horses; but in a very few minutes the enemy were
swarming all over the town. The raiders generally behaved well; no woman nor
other person was harmed, and no house robbed. They entered the stores, and in
the aggregate a large amount of goods was taken. They were eccentrics in
their robbing. A druggist was despoiled of nothing but his soap and perfumery.
They stayed a few hours, carried off some horses, and that night, going east,
were abreast of Cincinnati, and the next day out of the county, after a
tremendous midsummer march of thirty hours.

MT. WASHINGTON is five miles east of Cincinnati, on the C.G. & P. R. R.
Newspaper: Cincinnati Public School Journal, Educational. Churches 1 Methodist
Episcopal, 1 Methodist Protestant and 1 Baptist. Industries: Colter Pack-

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ing Co., fruit canning, 100 employees. Population in 1880, 393. School
census in 1886, 160. Dr. D. G. DRAKE, superintendent.

LOCKLAND is twelve miles north of Cincinnati, on the C. C. C. & I. and C. H.
& D. R.R. and on the Miami and Erie Canal. It has four churches and, in 1880,
1,884 inhabitants. Water-power is supplied to the establishments here by
four locks in the canal, which have unitedly forty-eight feet fall and give name
to the place.

Industries and Employees,—The Stearns & Foster Co., cotton batting, etc., 98
hands ; The Lockland Lumber Co., builders’ wood-work, etc., 85; The FRIEND &
FOX Paper Co., 75; George H. FRIEND Paper Co. 25; J. H. TANGEMAN, paper-making,
15; The HOLDEMAN Paper Co., 34, The HOLDEMAN Paper Co., 30; The George FOX
Starch Co. starch, 107.—State Report 1888


READING lies just east of Lockland and had, in 1880, a population of 2,680.
DIEHL’S long-noted fireworks are here manufactured; 60 hands are employed.
WYOMING lies west of Lockland, on the other side of the C. H. & D. R. R.; it
had, in 1880, 840 inhabitants

MADISONVILLE is seven and a half miles from Cincinnati, on the C. W. & B. R.
R., has churches, Baptist, Methodist, Christian, Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Episcopal and Catholic. Population in 1880, 1,247. NORWOOD lies on the same
railroad, six miles from Cincinnati, and has about 800 inhabitants.

CARTHAGE is on the C. H. & D. and C. C. C. & I. R. R. and Miami Canal, ten
miles from Cincinnati. It has four churches, the County Infirmary and Longview
Insane Asylum. Population is 1880, 1,007. The ERKENBECKER Starch Factory is
here, which employs 120 hands; the clothing-making industry is also carried
on here. HARTWELL lies a little northeast of Carthage, on the opposite side of
Mill creek, and on the C. H. & D. and Short Line Railroads. Population in
1880, 892. ELMWOOD adjoins Carthage on the south.

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