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The City of Seven Hills. Porkopolis. The 'Nati. We know Cincinnati by many names. Arguably our most recognizable moniker is the Queen City.
Cincinnati was first called "Queen of the West" in 1819 by Ed. B. Cooke who wrote "The City is, indeed, justly styled the fair Queen of the West: distinguished for order, enterprise, public spirit, and liberality, she stands the wonder of an admiring world." It was published in the Cincinnati Advertiser and the Inquisitor. The following year ...
Cincinnati (/ ˌ s ɪ n s ɪ ˈ n æ t i / ⓘ SIN-sih-NAT-ee; nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. [10] Settled by Europeans in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky.
Buffalo, New York or Queen City of the Great Lakes; Elmira, New York; New Rochelle, New York or Queen City of the Sound; Poughkeepsie, New York or Queen City of the Hudson; Charlotte, North Carolina or Queen City of the South; Dickinson, North Dakota; Cincinnati, Ohio or the Queen City of the West; Ada, Oklahoma or Queen City of the Chickasaw ...
A few months later, Wallace was in Cincinnati when the Queen City needed him most. Confederate Maj. Gen. E. Kirby Smith captured Richmond, Kentucky, on Aug. 30, 1862. Three days later, 11,000 ...
Ghost signs haunt the Queen City’s older neighborhoods. On derelict factories in Queensgate, hidden in alleys in the West End, exposed when the building next door was torn down."
Antebellum Cincinnati played a large role in the abolitionist movement, partially due to its location as a major city in the free state of Ohio directly across the river from the slave state Kentucky. The "Queen City" became a major migration path for escaped slaves.
Cincinnati's over 40 community councils serve as the link between the local government and the individual neighborhoods that make up the Queen City. All volunteer-based, they regularly deal with ...