Frederick Douglass School Library 1911
Since the nineteenth century, the Cincinnati Public Library provided service in the district’s school buildings. Douglass was no different; it housed a small library for Continue Reading
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Frederick Douglass Colony School 1927
The Board of Education created a model school for the Walnut Hills African American community in 1911. (See our article on that building.) A few Continue Reading
Lawrence C. Hawkins, Ph. D.
Lawrence Hawkins was born in South Carolina in 1919, the son of a sharecropper. His family moved to Cincinnati in 1926, and he enrolled in Continue Reading
James H. Robinson, Sr.
James Robinson was born in Sharpsburg, Kentucky in 1887. He attended Fisk University, one of the premier Historically Black Colleges, founded in Nashville Tennessee in Continue Reading
Douglass School Garden Club, 1910
This photograph appeared in the 1920 celebration of the tenth anniversary of the new Frederick Douglass School building. The caption reads: “School Gardening was started Continue Reading
Sarah Gibson Jones
Many African Americans in Cincinnati before the Civil War arrived responsible for their own freedom. Many had found ways as enslaved people to purchase their Continue Reading
DeHart Hubbard
William DeHart Hubbard was born in Walnut Hills on November 25, 1903, the first of eight children. His middle name honored Andrew DeHart, principal of Continue Reading
About Us
The Walnut Hills Historical Society (WHHS) is a committee of the Walnut Hills Area Council. We conduct historical research on the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Continue Reading
Thatcher’s Fish and Poultry
Ernest and Georgia Thatcher came to Cincinnati in 1929, a young African American couple from Kentucky hoping to make a better life together. His construction Continue Reading
Charles Dillard
Dr. Dillard grew up in Walnut Hills in the 1940’s-50’s, attending Frederick Douglass School and Walnut Hills High School. He followed his father into medicine Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass School Building 1911
The Elm Street School for Colored Children had been built in 1872, when Cincinnati annexed Walnut Hills north of McMillan Street. The Arnett law of Continue Reading