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CINCINNATI , just across the Ohio
River from Kentucky and roughly three hundred miles from both
Detroit and Chicago, is a dynamic commercial metropolis with a
definite European flavor and a sense of the South. Its tidy center,
rich in architecture and culture, lies within a few minutes' easy
walk of the arty Mount Adams district, the attractive
riverfront and the lively Over-the-Rhine
area in the north end of downtown.
The city was founded in 1788 at the point where
a Native American trading route crossed the river. Its name comes
from a group of Revolutionary War admirers of the Roman general
Cincinnatus, who saved Rome in 458 BC and then returned to his
small farm and refused to accept any reward or glory. Cincinnati
quickly became an important supply point for pioneers heading
west on flatboats and rafts, and its population skyrocketed with
the establishment of a major steamboat riverport
in 1811. Tens of thousands of German immigrants
poured in during the 1830s.
Loyalties were split by the Civil War
. At first, merchants were perturbed by the loss of important
markets; then they began to pick up lucrative government contracts,
and the city decided that its future lay with the Union. In the
prosperous postwar decade, Cincinnati acquired Fountain Square,
the prodigious Music and Exhibition Hall, a zoo, art museum, public
library and the country's first professional baseball team.
Sport remains a great source of pride: downtown gift
shops are decked out in the orange and black of the Bengals
football team and the red and white of the baseball-playing
Reds .
A Cincinnati success story is the Rookwood
Pottery , started by Maria Storer in Mount Adams in 1880.
Its distinctive tiles adorn countless downtown Art Deco landmarks,
as well as the Union and Dixie train terminals.
Charles Dickens, Winston Churchill and Longfellow
all admired Cincinnati; Mark Twain, on the other hand, said that
he hoped to be in Cincinnati when the world ended, as it's always
twenty years behind everywhere else
