City of Cincinnati history

Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1824 as the first Black church in Ohio.

Lane Theological Seminary was established in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati in 1829 to educate Presbyterian ministers.

The riot was a topic of discussion in 1830 among representatives of seven states at the first Negro Convention, led by Bishop Richard Allen and held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Prominent New England pastor Lyman Beecher moved his family (Harriet and son Henry) from Boston to Cincinnati to become the first President of the Seminary in 1832.

The nickname Porkopolis was coined around 1835, when Cincinnati was the country's chief hog packing center, and herds of pigs traveled the streets.

As the anti-slavery movement grew, there were more riots in 1836, when whites attacked a press run by James Birney, who had started publishing the anti-slavery weekly The Philanthropist.

The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber is more committed than ever to doing what those founders envisioned in 1839 - "making great businesses greater."

In 1850 it was the first city in the United States to establish a Jewish Hospital.

Abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published on March 20, 1852.

In 1853, the Cincinnati Fire Department became the first fully paid fire department in the US. It seems like a gross oversight that firemen weren’t paid in America up until this point, after all, it’s an incredibly dangerous job.

In 1854, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem, Catawba Wine, to memorialize the city's vineyards, especially those of Nicholas Longworth.

n 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings were founded, making them the oldest professional baseball team in America.

In fact, the Cincinnati Observatory is known as the “Birthplace of American Astronomy”. Built in 1873, it’s the oldest public observatory in the country and was the first in the western hemisphere.

Carvings of flowers, birds, and symbols of crafts, arts, and sciences on its gray sandstone trim indicate the many uses for which Music Hall was originally intended when it opened on April 8, 1878.

In August 1879, the growth was mushrooming and Josiah Harmar authorized construction of Fort Washington.

Cincinnati was the first municipality to build and own a major railroad in 1880.

The first class graduated in 1883, and the college became the major training centre for rabbis and teachers of the Reform movement.

Cincinnati's industries employed 103,325 people in 1887, and produced more than 200 million dollars in goods.

In 1888, Cincinnati German Protestants community started a "sick house" ("Krankenhaus") staffed by deaconesses.

By 1890, Cincinnati had become the largest city in Ohio with a population of about 300,000.

In the mid 1900's there were numerous proposals for a new city hall, but the trend toward locating some city offices in neighborhoods and the growth of interest in preserving historic buildings has led to a renewed respect with which Cincinnatians view their nineteenth century City Hall.

In 1902, the world's first re-inforced concrete skyscraper was built, the Ingalls Building.

"The Sons of Daniel Boone", a forerunner to the Boy Scouts of America, began in Cincinnati in 1905.

The Hebrew Union College Museum (now Skirball Museum) was established in 1913.

In 1888, Cincinnati German Protestants community started a "sick house" ("Krankenhaus") staffed by deaconesses. It was renamed Deaconess Hospital in 1917.

A long period of government corruption was followed by one of reform and civic rejuvenation in the 1920s.

In 1935, major league baseball's first night game was played at Crosley Field.

During experimentation for six years (until 1939), Cincinnati's AM radio station, WLW was the first to broadcast at 500,000 watts.

Women made 37mm antitank shells for the war in 1942 at Aluminum Industries, Inc. in Cincinnati.

In 1943, King Records (and its subsidiary, Queen Records) was founded, and went on to record early music by artists who became highly successful and influential in Country, R&B, and Rock.

The city’s population peaked at 504,000 in 1950 and thereafter declined, which was mirrored by steady population growth in the metropolitan area.

WCET-TV was the first licensed public television station, established in 1954.

A fourth campus was opened in Jerusalem in 1963 as a postdoctoral institution, though in subsequent years its mission was expanded to include various other programs.

Beginning in 1965 the Chamber led the campaign to build Riverfront Stadium to attract a National Football League franchise and head off the threat of the Cincinnati Reds moving from the city.

Cincinnati is home to radio's WEBN 102.7 FM, the longest-running album-oriented rock station in the United States, first airing in 1967.