Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
By 1918, Walnut Hills High School had adopted a “classical” curriculum aimed at preparation for college. Students from our neighborhood could also attend the much larger Hughes High School, already… Continue Reading
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
…of Cincinnati on the eve of the greatest turmoil in their post-Civil War history. We have seen that Peter Clark, principal of Gaines Colored High School and the most prominent… 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
…like a new preparation from North Carolina in 1913 with “Vapors of Camphor, Eucalyptus” called Vicks Croup and Pneumonia Salve. An up-to-date retailer, Dickerson accepted the company’s coupons for free… Continue Reading
…in protest. Even the Commercial Gazette, usually a newspaper sympathetic to the Freedmen, closed with the snide comment “It is rumored that every colored woman will vote.” Women’s suffrage was… Continue Reading
…1870. A free-born Pennsylvanian and a teacher in that state, he had moved to Louisville immediately after the Civil War where he earned a license as an AME preacher. Arnett… Continue Reading
…out for the recognition that the African American community, free and enslaved, worked tirelessly to achieve emancipation through self-purchase. One of Bradley’s white classmates observed: “Some important facts in regard… Continue Reading
…what became the Academy of Family Physicians in 1947-48 and served on the Ohio State Board of Medical Examiners beginning in 1980, and was named Family Physician of the Year… Continue Reading