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Black Baseball in Walnut Hills

Our neighborhood has a rich baseball history, most of it highlighting our African-American residents. In October, 2020, when the pandemic prevented us from going to Continue Reading

Melrose YMCA Development and Programming

In 1944, the Cincinnati and Hamilton County YMCA established the Walnut Hills branch, a Black alternative to the segregated Williams YMCA on McMillan. Initially the Continue Reading

Ads for Black-owned or Black-friendly Businesses: Slideshow

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

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

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