1886: MEDICAL MAIDS. Cincinnati’s Women Physicians.
(See also Women Doctors in Cincinnati and their Connections to Walnut Hills.) MEDICAL MAIDS. Cincinnati’s Women Physicians. WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Continue Reading
Tag: Public Schools
The Last Global Pandemic: Hughes High School, 1918-1919
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 Continue Reading
The Last Global Pandemic: Walnut Hills High School, 1918-1919
The Walnut Hills High School yearbook, the Remembrancer for 1918-1919, presents a spectacular perspective on the year of the “Spanish” Flu. 1918 was also the Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass and Spencer Center Fourth Grade History Club Spring 2018
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
Frederick Douglass School 1980
In the late 1950’s through the 80’s, Cincinnati Public Schools tried to racially integrate its facilities. With many other public schools in Walnut Hills, the Continue Reading
Grace Smith Slade
James and Mary Smith lived in the African American settlement near the Elm Street Colored School, on Maple Street (later 2912 Park Avenue). They were Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass Colony School 1927
The Board of Education created a model school for the Walnut Hills African American community in 1911. (See our article on that building.) A few Continue Reading
Lawrence C. Hawkins, Ph. D.
Lawrence Hawkins was born in South Carolina in 1919, the son of a sharecropper. His family moved to Cincinnati in 1926, and he enrolled in Continue Reading
Ashland (formerly Walnut Hills) Park
Cincinnati allocated $15,000 in 1906 to produce a master plan for parks and parkways. The planning culminated the very next year in a sumptuous volume Continue Reading
Jennie Davis Porter
Jennie Davis Porter was born in 1876, the daughter of a school teacher and a former slave said to be Cincinnati’s first African American undertaker. Continue Reading