Fourth Grade History Club biographies
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
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Construction during Reconstruction: Eden Park Reservoir Elsinore Gate
The saga of the connection of the reservoir in Eden Park to the downtown water mains and the Hunt Street Pumping station dragged out from Continue Reading
Avoiding Construction During Reconstruction: Public Health, Sewage and Contaminated Water
Proponents offered clean water as one of the early promises of the Reservoir at Eden Park. The huge artificial lake held a hundred million gallons Continue Reading
Construction After Reconstruction: Eden Park Pump House and Water Tower
Before leaving aside the Eden Park Reservoir to consider other construction in Walnut Hills during Reconstruction, we’ll pause to consider a couple of other Water Continue Reading
The Hotel Alms
In 1891, Frederick Alms built a large apartment building on McMillan, just across Elmwood Place (later renamed Alms Place, now Victory Parkway) from his palatial Continue Reading
Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
African American Cincinnatians fared better than their sisters and brothers in the South during the years of Jim Crow beginning in the 1880’s, but even Continue Reading
Elm Street School, the Frederick Douglass School building, 1872
Walnut Hills north of McMillan Street annexed itself to the city of Cincinnati in 1870, at the height of progressive Black Reconstruction. The merger included Continue Reading