Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
…to or Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WalnutHillsStories/posts/1574501569329981 Garden Club 1920 Douglass kids started to garden a long time ago. Here is a picture of the Garden Club in 1920. The club… Continue Reading
…Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, November 20, 1912 p. 3. “Assurance is given to Y. M. C. A. Workers: Fund for Erection of Building for Colored Folks Continues To Gain,” Cincinnati Commercial… Continue Reading
…two additional window bays. (Figures 2 and 22 show the transept from the northwest. Figure 21, from the northeast, adds additional perspective.) In the densely built block around the church,… Continue Reading
…page for others 1868 https://books.google.com/books?id=BU0MAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s 1875 https://books.google.com/books?id=_E0MAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s 1877: https://books.google.com/books?id=7VIPAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks A short history of the Eden Park Water Works appeared in Engineering News, April 23, 1881, p. 153 and 162 https://books.google.com/books?id=midKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=henry+earnshaw… Continue Reading
…offer a goldmine of information about the community during the last decade before the Civil War and the early years of reconstruction. In 1873 the Colored Schools would come under… Continue Reading
…Greve, Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens, v. 2, 1904, pp. 273-274. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Centennial_History_of_Cincinnati_and_Rep/YqcxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Shoe and Leather Reporter, Volume 51, April 28, 1891, p. 1032 and passim https://www.google.com/books/edition/Shoe_and_Leather_Reporter/m_E-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en Shoe and… Continue Reading
…paid a visit to the US. Their itinerary included a stop in the heavily German city of Cincinnati. Col. Jones found himself in the company of Baron Richard von Steuben,… Continue Reading
The 1882 Arbor Day celebration intersected with other history around the end of Reconstruction. It was as much an occasion for forgetting as for remembering – forgetting the Civil War… Continue Reading
…now organized as a non-profit though still hustling its wares. https://www.pewabic.org/ . See also https://www.michigan.gov/documents/hal_mhc_mhm_pewabic-tiles_03-10-2004_92006_7.pdf and Jenny Nolan ,“Pewabic tile, Detroit’s art treasure” The Detroit News February 13, 2000 https://archive.ph/20130121110309/http:/info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=23… Continue Reading
The major features of Eden Park emerged, at least in planning form, even before the completion of the reservoir. Apart from heroic efforts at landscaping the Eden Park with broad… Continue Reading