
The Walnut Hills Steam Laundry
We have seen that many Black women, and a few whites, worked as washerwomen in Walnut Hills from the 1870s through the early decades of Continue Reading
Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
We have seen that many Black women, and a few whites, worked as washerwomen in Walnut Hills from the 1870s through the early decades of Continue Reading
Walnut Hills had a long tradition of African American women taking in laundry. Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe engaged the services of an “Aunt Frankie” Continue Reading
The Black entrepreneurs William H. Fox and Rolla Pryor opened the first “Ice Cream Saloon” on Lincoln Avenue in 1878. We have seen in a Continue Reading
Irene Kirke, an African American woman, was born in 1887 in what was then the small town of Milford, outside of Cincinnati. She attended public Continue Reading
Dangerfield Earley Dangerfield Earley came to Cincinnati before the Civil War. He and Georgiana Jones married here in 1845. In 1860 they had four children Continue Reading
Kathryne Gardette is well known in Walnut Hills as a business woman, investor, advocate, booster, and — yes! — even match-maker. The Miller-Gardette building on Continue Reading
Fourth graders from Frederick Douglass School and the Spencer Center have a combined history club. The Douglass kids stay after school; always start with a Continue Reading
The 2018 UC/CPC class at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts composed 8 projects based on topics suggested by the digitization of businesses Continue Reading
Here is a selection of the ads from The Union, The Cincinnati Herald, The Ohio Enterprise, and NIP Magazine. These ads represent the range of Continue Reading
Thanks to a grant from the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation, we researched ads in black newspapers and magazines from 1902 to 1980. The map below Continue Reading