Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
At our November, 2020, virtual meeting, Geoff Sutton presented research on how Cincinnati and Walnut Hills responded to the Great Migration. This research grew out of his work with 4th… Continue Reading
…provided advice, and reviewed city contracts when they were issued and when they were completed. He was not afraid to asked hard questions of powerful contactors. After Lincoln’s presidential inauguration… Continue Reading
…Relations Committee in 1943, later renamed the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission. The Mayor’s Friendly Relations Committee was a peculiarly Cincinnati institution. As had happened during World War I, a great… Continue Reading
…we Climb,” memorialized by the Federation as a sculpture. The first project for the Cincinnati Federation supported a free Kindergarten in Brown Chapel, the AME church in Walnut Hills. The… Continue Reading
…Cincinnati Art Museum a few years later and renamed the Cincinnati Art Academy.) Miss Clark completed the full-time curriculum in the usual two years. Yet Consuelo Clark did not pursue… Continue Reading
…needed. As we have seen, an issue even before the completion of the new reservoir was supplying water both to downtown and to the newer neighborhoods on the hills. The… Continue Reading
…jobs in the African American community. The steamboat trade was also an industry with a long connection to the Black community in Cincinnati. In one city directory in 1842 which… Continue Reading
…War, Congregationalists launched a vigorous project to create both educational institutions for the Freedmen and independent Black churches with Black clergy trained in the schools. (This model of parallel, segregated… Continue Reading
…first few years of the twentieth century. When the Walnut Hills Pharmacy opened, construction was just getting started on the magnificent new Frederick Douglass building completed in 1911. Houses were… Continue Reading
…information about Pastor Green in the 1940 census: If you get stuck or want to learn more about this work, please email walnuthillsstories@gmail.com or learn more about how to help…. Continue Reading