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May 16, 2011 · Minutes of Fulton Township, April 13, 1829. When Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1819, it encompassed an area of approximately four square miles, extending from the Ohio River on the south and east, to Liberty Street on the north and the Mill Creek on the west.
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.
May 8, 2021 · On September 22, 1788, three speculators — John Filson, Colonel Robert Patterson, and Mathias Denman — crossed the Ohio River from Kentucky and onto their 800-acre investment in the...
The land that would become Cincinnati was purchased in 1788 by Matthias Denman from John Cleves Symmes and was named "Losantiville." General Arthur St. Clair renamed the town "Cincinnati" in 1790. This image is taken from the following book:
Aug 12, 2024 · Formerly know as "The Eastern Liberties", this strip of land would later become known for some of the finest wooden shipbuilding yards in the country. In 1828, Fulton Township was incorporated, which would in turn become The East End we know today.
Oct 11, 2021 · Surveyor John Dunlap called his settlement Fort Coleraine after his hometown in Ireland, but the “e” was eventually dropped sometime after it became a township in 1794. Fort Mitchell and Fort...
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Apr 16, 2018 · In 1790 he arrived to make the town the seat of government for Hamilton County, and he changed the settlement’s name to Cincinnati in honor of the Society of Cincinnati, to which he and most...
