HistoryForge: Census, Maps and More
WHHS has partnered with HistoryForge to create an on-line application that links census information to historical maps. We started this kind of work with the Continue Reading
Tag: Victory Parkway
The L. B. Harrison Club: Art Deco in Walnut Hills
The L. B. Harrison Club, built on Victory Parkway on the southwest corner of the intersection with McMillan in 1930, adorned the new tree-lined boulevard Continue Reading
Scene in Walnut Hills: Black Lives Matter on Victory Parkway
As 2020 with its turbulent election season and COVID pandemic draws to a close, I thought I’d highlight another aspect of the year, lest we Continue Reading
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
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
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
Barbara Haven
Barbara moved to Walnut Hills in her early 20’s (1957). She and her husband have lived in Cincinnati ever since, raising 3 daughters. They have Continue Reading
Demographics – “Blue-Lining”
In 1932, Curtis Publishing released a marketing study based on what we would now call a “mashup” of circulation data for the popular Ladies’ Home Continue Reading