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Cincinnati began with the settlement of Columbia, Losantiville, and North Bend in the Northwest Territory of the United States beginning in late December 1788. The following year Fort Washington, named for George Washington, was established to protect the settlers.
12 lis 2024 · Cincinnati emerged as a river port after 1811, when the first steamboat west of the Allegheny Mountains, the New Orleans, arrived on its downriver voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Miami and Erie Canal was completed to Dayton in 1829, and the first section of the Little Miami Railway was laid in 1843.
7 gru 2015 · History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present by S. B. Nelson & Co.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
3 mar 2009 · Extracts from the history of Cincinnati and the territory of Ohio : Jones, Adolphus Eberhardt. [from old catalog] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. An arrow pointing downward at an empty document tray.
The city developed as a river town for cargo shipping by steamboats, located at the crossroads of the Northern and Southern United States, with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than East Coast cities in the same period.
1 sty 2014 · Histories of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio, are available in many libraries and online. These histories contain thousands of names of early residents, some with biographies and illustrations. Many are searchable with indexes.