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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, ...
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 ...
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.
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - As the Jim Crow era in the South took hold in the early 1900s, segregation in the North began – and what Black people tried to escape – being treated differently because of ...
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 ...