Construction During Reconstruction: Eden Park Band Stand
…tress and shrubs, giving the concert bowl a much more open feel than that part of the park today. Similar scenes provide photographic evidence of both the open hillside and… Continue Reading
Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
…tress and shrubs, giving the concert bowl a much more open feel than that part of the park today. Similar scenes provide photographic evidence of both the open hillside and… Continue Reading
…pleasant library room to drawing books for home use.” Miss Pitts stayed at the library into 1917. The segregated Douglass School library remained open for decades. In 1920, a commemorative… Continue Reading
…the Melrose site opened, he became the Chair of the Branch Management Committee. (Lovelace would run unsuccessfully for City Council in the late ‘50’s and would be appointed and then… Continue Reading
…free Blacks in the South. Her grandfather had been the enslaved body servant of President Andrew Jackson. Her mother, born enslaved, was freed in a deathbed manumission so Jennie was… Continue Reading
…people brought by their owners to Ohio, a free state, became free. As long as their entry into Ohio occurred with the consent of the owner, they could not be… Continue Reading
…employment at Douglass) advocated the organization and support of institutions within the Negro community. He especially hoped to enlist the organized support of the Churches in the community – not,… Continue Reading
…along the line, emerging on the ground floor as complete vehicles. Modern Times! Like the Cincinnati carriage industry, Ford Motor Company had to cope with high shipping costs from its… Continue Reading
…Commercial Newspaper July 6, 1882 Page 8 “Lane Seminary is flourishing,” Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, September 27, 1884 Page 9 “Lane Seminary Commencement,” Cincinnati Commercial Newspaper May 5, 1881 Page 8… Continue Reading
…He soon transferred to the Army Air Force Navigation School and then to bombardier school. He was assigned to the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African American fliers… Continue Reading
…by Brynn Thomas. The students developed questions for Kathryne, and you can listen to some of the answers from the recorded interview below. Kathryne grew up in a multi-generational household…. Continue Reading