Walnut Hills and the Great Migration (November, 2020)
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 Continue Reading
Tag: Black History
Baseball in Walnut Hills: Manggrum’s Drug Store, the Recreation Commission, and Black Sports
Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills From the 1870s for at least a century, baseball was the national pastime. Continue Reading
Lincoln Avenue in 1870: What did women do all day?
We have been looking at the Census data from 1870 and 1880 to understand the people who lived on what became Lincoln Avenue in 1877. Continue Reading
Lincoln Avenue in 1870: What did men do all day?
We have been looking at the Census data from 1870 and 1880 to understand the people who lived on what became Lincoln Avenue in 1877. Continue Reading
Scene near Walnut Hills: Abraham Lincoln Monument 1967
Our previous post looked at the Abraham Lincoln monument in Avondale, both today and when it was constructed in 1902. The most famous incident at Continue Reading
Scene near Walnut Hills: Abraham Lincoln Monument
Venturing on a walk from Walnut Hills to our neighbors in Avondale, I passed the Abraham Lincoln Memorial at the corner of Rockdale and Reading, Continue Reading
Sadie Samuels: What Success Looked Like for a Black Woman in the early Twentieth Century
Sadie Samuels was born in 1892 in Cincinnati’s West End. In the 1900 census the household included the eight-year-old Sadie, an African-American girl; her grandfather Continue Reading
Baseball Venues in Walnut Hills
Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills The Deer Creek Commons, built over a large culvert down the valley between Continue Reading
Baseball Venues: Walnut Hills Ashland Park
Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills The parks plans of the progressive era not only resulted in the construction Continue Reading
Jennie Jackson DeHart and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
Jennie Jackson sang in the original Fish Jubilee Singers beginning in 1871. In 1885 she married the Nashville preacher Andrew J. DeHart, and the couple Continue Reading