Hamilton
(B) Findlay Market Opening Day Parade
Cincinnati, OH
Findlay Market is the heart of the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and has been a gathering place for political, religious, and social events...
1749 French Claims to Ohio River Valley
Cincinnati, OH
In 1749, the French in North America perceived a threat by British expansion west of the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River Valley and...
Albert B. Sabin, M.D., 1906-1993
Cincinnati, OH
Albert B. Sabin developed the oral, live-virus polio vaccine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital...
Boyhood Home of Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling
Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling (1859-1943) founded Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity on November 13, 1903, at the...
Camp Joy
Cincinnati, OH
Camp Joy was born at the site of Seven Hills Neighborhood House and original location of St. Barnabas Episcopal Mission Church.
Cary Cottage
North College Hill, OH
Built in 1832 by Robert and Elizabeth Cary, Cary Cottage was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Chestnut Street Cemetery / Two Centuries of Jewish Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Chestnut Street Cemetery is the first Jewish cemetery in Ohio and the earliest west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Cincinnati & Whitewater Canal Tunnel / William Henry Harrison and The Cincinnati & Whitewater Canal
Cleves, OH
In 1837, Cincinnati merchants projected a branch canal to join the Whitewater Canal at West Harrison, Indiana, with the goal of tapping...
Cincinnati Breweries
Cincinnati, OH
The Brewery District contains the majority of Cincinnati’s remaining breweries and associated structures such as icehouses, bottling...
Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs / Cincinnati Federation Clubhouse
Cincinnati, OH
“Lifting As We Climb”: The Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs (CFCWC) was organized May 6, 1904, during a meeting called by...
Cincinnati Moonwatch Team / Cincinnati Astronomical Society
On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union surprised the world with the launching of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite.
Cincinnati Public Markets / The Northern Liberties
Cincinnati, OH
Public markets housing butchers, fish merchants, and produce vendors were once the primary source of perishable foods for residents of...
Cincinnati Reds
Cincinnati, OH
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...
Cincinnati Riots of 1884 / Sheriff Morton Lytle Hawkins
Cincinnati, OH
In March 1884, public confidence of Cincinnati law enforcement was extremely low.
Cincinnati Stock Exchange
Cincinnati, OH
The Cincinnati Stock Exchange (CSE), founded in 1885, was headquartered in the Dixie Terminal Building at 49 East 4th Street.
Cincinnati Union Terminal
Cincinnati, OH
The Cincinnati Union Terminal opened in March 1933 and integrated rail travel in the city, which previously operated from five separate...
Cincinnati’s German Heritage
Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati, along with Milwaukee and St. Louis, is one of the three corners of the “German Triangle,” so-called for its historically high...
Civic Organizations in Hazelwood (1941-2000)
Blue Ash, OH
Civic organizations played pivotal roles in the development of the residential community of Hazelwood, founded as a subdivision of Blue...
Clark Stone House
Turpin Hills, OH
The Clark Stone House, constructed around 1801 by James Clark (1765-1852), is one of the oldest standing stone houses in Ohio.
Colerain Turnpike Watering Trough
Dunlap, OH
This spring fed watering trough was erected by Giles Richards (1792-1876) in 1867 and has provided water to travelers and livestock ever...
Columbia Presbyterian & Fulton Cemeteries / William Brown
Cincinnati, OH
The cemetery dates to 1794 and is comprised of two adjacent cemeteries: Columbia Presbyterian Cemetery and Fulton Cemetery.
Congress Green Cemetery / John Cleves Symmes
North Bend, OH
Originally belonging to the William Henry Harrison family, this cemetery was known as “The Pasture Graveyard” until the Civil War era.
Daniel Drake, M.D.
Cincinnati, OH
Daniel Drake, M.D.. Daniel Drake (1785-1852) was an influential figure in 19th century American medicine, gaining fame as physician,...
Eckstein School 1915-1958
Glendale, OH
Eckstein Elementary School operated on this site from 1915 to 1958, serving Glendale’s Negro children from Kindergarten through eighth...
Elizabeth Blackwell
Cincinnati, OH
Born in Bristol, England, Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), moved to Cincinnati in 1838.
Findlay Market / General James Findlay (1770-1835)
Cincinnati, OH
Ohio’s oldest surviving municipal market house, Findlay Market was designed under the direction of City Civil Engineer Alfred West...
First Glass Door Oven
Cincinnati, OH
The first full-size glass door oven was invented and manufactured here by Ernst H. Huenefeld of The Huenefeld Company in 1909.
First National Correctional Congress / Declaration of Principles of 1870
Cincinnati, OH
On this site in October of 1870 met a group of enlightened individuals dedicated to the reformation and improvement of penal systems.
Gaines High School / Peter H. Clark
Cincinnati, OH
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...
Garard/Martin Station, 1790
Site of the first fortified settlement in Anderson Township and one of the first in the Virginia Military District.
George Washington Williams
Cincinnati, OH
George Washington Williams was born in 1849 in Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Greenhills
Greenhills, OH
Considered a bold experiment in community planning, Greenhills was intended to relieve an acute housing shortage and to provide jobs...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cincinnati, OH
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield Connecticut in 1811 and moved to Cincinnati in 1832 when her father, prominent...
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Cincinnati, OH
Hebrew Union College (HUC), founded in Cincinnati in 1875, is the oldest institution of higher Jewish learning in the United States.
Inventor Obed Hussey Test His Reaper, 1835
New Burlington, OH
Mechanical reapers enabled farmers to harvest much more grain than they could by sickle or scythe.
James Norris Gamble (1836-1932)
Cincinnati, OH
James Norris Gamble, entrepreneur, industrialist, philanthropist and civic leader, is best known for inventing Procter & Gamble’s Ivory...
James Warren Rankin / Ohio’s Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Cincinnati, OH
James W. Rankin served four consecutive terms (1971-1978) in the Ohio House of Representatives.
John James Audubon in Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History is part of Cincinnati Museum Center.
John T. Crawford’s Legacy
Cincinnati, OH
John T. Crawford (1813-1880), was a white Union soldier.
Lane Theological Seminary / The Lane Seminary Debates
Cincinnati, OH
The Lanes, Baptist merchants from New Orleans, and the Kempers, a Presbyterian family from Cincinnati, gave money and land respectively...
Lochry’s Expedition, 1781 Interment Camp / Lochry’s Militia Held Here, 1781
Grandview, OH
Border warfare characterized the American Revolution on the northwest frontier.
Manse Hotel and Annex / Horace Sudduth (August 8, 1888-March 19, 1957)
Cincinnati, OH
Walnut Hills has been home to a significant middle- and working-class Black community since the 1850s.
Maple Knoll Village
Springdale, OH
A group of concerned Cincinnati women organized, in 1855, The Protestant Home for the Friendless and Female Guardian Society as a...
Mariemont
Mariemont, OH
Ground was broken for Mariemont by Mary M. Emery, the village’s founder, on April 23, 1923.
Marsh Park The Parker Family / Marsh Park The Hirst Family
Norwood, OH
Miranda Boulden Parker lived at 2644 Marsh Avenue from 1907 to 1915.
Miller-Leuser Log House
Turpin Hills, OH
Ichabod Benton Miller purchased 440 acres in Anderson Township on April 2, 1796.
Miss Doherty’s College Preparatory School for Girls
Cincinnati, OH
Mary Harlan Doherty was born in 1862 in the Dayton Street neighborhood of Cincinnati.
Morgan’s First Skirmish in Ohio
Miamitown, OH
Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan’s Indiana-Ohio Raid, or Great Raid, from July 2-26, 1863 covered nearly 1,000 miles and...
Morgan’s Raid through Springdale
Springdale, OH
In July 1863, Confederate Brigadier-General John Hunt Morgan led a force of 2,000 cavalrymen across southern Ohio.
Mt. Healthy Christian Church
Mount Healthy, OH
Since 1839, the Mt. Healthy Christian Church (established as the Church of Christ at Mt. Pleasant) has served as a model for global...
Newell School
A school has stood on this site almost continuously since the late 1840s.
Norwood High School
Norwood, OH
In 1910, voters approved a $275,000 bond issue to construct this school on seven and one-half acres of an old orchard on Sherman Avenue.
Ohio’s First Publicly Owned Water System
Cincinnati, OH
On June 25, 1839, Greater Cincinnati Water Works became the first publicly owned water system in Ohio, when the city purchased a...
Old Saint Mary Cemetery
Springdale, OH
In 1801, the Springdale Presbyterian Church acquired these two and a half acres to construct a church and cemetery.
Peebles Corner / Peebles Corner
Cincinnati, OH
When the cable car route was electrified in 1898, transportation through the area became more efficient, and Walnut Hills became more...
Powhatan Beaty / Union Baptist Cemetery
Cincinnati, OH
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Powhatan Beaty moved to Cincinnati in 1849, where he spent the majority of his life.
Procter & Gamble
Cincinnati, OH
Begun as a partnership between candle maker William Procter and soap maker James Gamble in 1837, Procter & Gamble (P&G) grew from its...
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise and The Plum Street Temple
Cincinnati, OH
This historic synagogue symbolizes the work of one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American Jewry, Isaac Mayer Wise...
Robert Reily
Wyoming, OH
Robert Reily, founder of the village of Wyoming in 1861.
Robert S. Duncanson
Cincinnati, OH
The first African American artist to achieve international acclaim, painter Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872) was born in New York and...
Ruth Lyons
Cincinnati, OH
Ruth Lyons, born in Cincinnati’s East End, was a broadcaster and businesswoman known for her radio and television show, The 50-50 Club...
Salmon Portland Chase
Cincinnati, OH
Salmon Portland Chase, a renowned lawyer and statesman, was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, on January 13, 1808.
Sara Mayrant Walker Fossett (1826-1906) / Peter Farley Fossett (1815-1901)
Cincinnati, OH
Sarah Mayrant Walker was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina, and sent to New Orleans as a young girl to study under a French...
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati
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...
Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum
Cincinnati, OH
Spring Grove received its charter by an act of the Ohio Legislature in January 1845.
St. Aloysius Orphanage
Cincinnati, OH
Fr. John Henni founded St. Aloysius Orphanage in 1837 to care for German-speaking Catholic children who were left abandoned by the...
Stearns and Foster Company
Wyoming, OH
The Stearns and Foster Company was co-founded by George S. Stearns, one of the founding fathers of the City of Wyoming, and Seth Foster.
Taft Museum of Art
Cincinnati, OH
This Federal house was begun about 1820 for Martin Baum (1765-1831), one of Cincinnati’s early merchants.
The Betts House, 1804
Cincinnati, OH
The oldest building in Cincinnati’s basin area, the Betts House exemplifies a national trend on the expanding frontier of impermanent log...
The Black Brigade of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
Following the success of Confederate forces in eastern Kentucky and General John Hunt Morgan’s raids there in 1862, Cincinnatians...
The Cincinnati and Hamilton Turnpike
Glendale, OH
Population growth in the newly settled communities of Cincinnati (1788) and Hamilton (1791) led to a call to improve the early Native...
The Colleges and Academies of College Hill
Cincinnati, OH
The first in a succession of schools that eventually gave College Hill its name was CARY’S ACADEMY FOR BOYS.
The Eliza House
Glendale, OH
Three hundred yards east of this location on Oak Road, overlooking the Miami & Erie Canal, was the house of abolitionist John Van Zandt...
The First Link
The Fernald Feed Materials Production Center initiated operations on this site in October 1951, in support of America’s Cold War effort.
The Founder / The Church
Salem Heights, OH
Francis McCormick (1764-1836), who fought under Lafayette at the siege of Yorktown, founded Methodism in the Northwest Territory.
The Irish in Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
In memory of the Irish people who left a country where only their rivers run free.
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of The American Jewish Archives
Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995), pioneering historian of the American Jew, founded the American Jewish Archives (AJA) in Cincinnati in...
The Kroger Co. / Over-The-Rhine
Cincinnati, OH
Near this site in Over-The-Rhine was one of the original Kroger Grocery & Baking Company stores, where Bernard H. Kroger began serving...
The Madisonville Site
Mariemont, OH
The Madisonville site is the largest and most thoroughly studied village of the late Fort Ancient culture (AD 1450 – 1670).
The Orgins of Harvest Home
Cheviot, OH
In 1804, Enoch (1764-1817) and Achsah (c.1767-1839) Carson and their seven children journeyd from New Jersey to Cincinnati.
The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SN Dde N) / (SN Dde N) Educational Works
Reading, OH
The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur were founded in 1804 by Saint Julie Billiart to spread the message “Ah, how good it is to serve God.
The Sultana
Cincinnati, OH
In 1862, less than a mile upriver from this marker, the John Lithoberry Shipyard in Cincinnati constructed the Sultana, a 260-foot,...
United Colored American Cemetery / Notable Citizens Interred at UCAC
Cincinnati, OH
United Colored American Cemetery is among the earliest in situ African American cemeteries in Hamilton County.
Village of Glendale, 1855
Glendale, OH
Established in 1851 after the addition of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway, Glendale incorporated in 1855 as Ohio’s first...
Vorhees Town / Plan of the Town of Reading
Reading, OH
In 1794 Abraham Voorhees, a Revolutionary War veteran, brought his family from New Jersey to the Northwest Territory to settle on 640...
Waldschmidt Cemetery Camp Dennison, Ohio
Waldschmidt Cemetery is located on land purchased from former New Jersey judge and Congressman John Cleves Symmes in 1795 by Christian...
Walter Scott, Christian Pioneer
Cincinnati, OH
The Society of the Disciples in Carthage (Carthage Christian Church, Disciples of Christ) was organized under the teaching of Pioneer...
White Water Shaker Village
The United Society of Believers (or “Shakers,” as they are commonly known) established White Water, the last of four Ohio Shaker...
William Henry Harrison / Benjamin Harrison
North Bend, OH
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), ninth president of the United States, left his home state of Virginia in 1791 and was commissioned in...
William Howard Taft / Robert Alphonso Taft
Cincinnati, OH
Born here on September 15, 1857, William Howard Taft is the only American to have served as President and Chief Justice of the United...
Woodward High School / School for Creative and Performing Arts
Cincinnati, OH
William and Abigail Cutter Woodward founded Woodward High School, the first public high school west of the Allegheny Mountains, on this...
Xavier University Armory / Xavier University Armory
Cincinnati, OH
Xavier University Armory.