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The Cincinnati Fire Department traces its origins to the early 19th century when fire protection services were minimal and mostly volunteer-based. By the 1800s, Cincinnati's population had increased significantly, making the need for organized firefighting more urgent. In the 1830s, the city began developing its volunteer fire companies. These ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Downtown Cincinnati is defined as being all of the city south of Central Parkway, west of Interstates 71 and 471, and east of Interstate 75. The locations of National Register properties ...
Avon Woods Nature Center The Avon Woods Preserve , owned and operated by the Cincinnati Park Board , is a city park in the North Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati , Ohio. The park has nature trails , gardens , a nature center and stream, as well as educational programs offered to children. [ 1 ]
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Avondale is served by a branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. [18] South Avondale Elementary [19] serves kindergarten through 6th grade, and is part of the Cincinnati Public Schools system. Phoenix Community Learning center is a public charter school also located in Avondale, serving kindergarten through 10th grade. [20]
West Fourth Street Historic District is a registered historic district in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1976. It contained 32 contributing buildings when it was listed, [1] but an additional building, 309 Vine Street, was added in a 2015 boundary increase. [2]
The “cat distribution system” is the playful name given to the strange mechanism by which people seem to get chosen by stray cats who follow them home from the most unlikely of places.
During the election of 1860 [5] Abraham Lincoln received 60% of the vote in Warren County, and in 1864 he was reelected with 70% of the vote in the county. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] From that time on the county was a stronghold of the Republican party, with Ulysses S. Grant going on to carry the county by large margins in both 1868 and 1872.