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Straight Street, going east from West McMicken, is only a 12.5% grade, according to the Cincinnati Department of Transportation and Engineering. As it approaches Ravine, it settles into a 12% grade.
CINCINNATI – The 2017 Taste of Cincinnati returns Downtown this Memorial Day weekend with 14 new food vendors, a new Taste of Findlay Market area and new location on Fifth Street.
Most maps illustrate a fixed moment of geographical existence. Sanborn maps, however, do something altogether different. In 1867, The Sanborn Map Company began charting North American cities and towns ...
Plum Street downtown looking north from Court Street in 1929. Image digitized by University of Cincinnati Archives & Rare Books Library. Now That’s Plumb Curious. On the very earliest Cincinnati maps, ...
She said the street namings aren't political, but instead a way to respect Cincinnati's history. "The signs create history," she said. "People drive by and remember these people." ...
Cincinnati Public Schools dropped German from its curriculum, German families Americanized their last names and the city changed German street names, especially in the heavily-German Over-the ...