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Cincinnati, Ohio
Flag of Cincinnati, Ohio Flag Official seal of Cincinnati, Ohio Seal
Nickname:  The Queen City
Location in Hamilton County, Ohio
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Hamilton
Founded	1788
Incorporated	1819
Government
• Mayor	Mark L. Mallory (D)
Population  (2005)
• City	308,728
• Metro	2,058,221
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Website	http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/

Cincinnati is a southwestern Ohio city in the United States that lies on the Ohio River and is the county seat of Hamilton CountyTemplate:GR. The city's most common nicknames and abbreviations include "The Queen City," "Cincy," less commonly "The 'Nati", "Cinti," and "The City of Seven Hills."

As of 2005, Cincinnati's population was 308,728, making it the third largest city in Ohio and the 55th largest in the United States. It has a much larger metropolitan area, commonly called "Greater Cincinnati", which covers parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. As of July 1, 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau esimates that the Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington Combined Statistical Area has a population of 2,113,011 (making it the 20th largest in the country) and is growing at a rate of about one percent annually. It is home to major-league sports, including baseball's Reds, America's first professional baseball team, the Bengals of the National Football League, and the historic international men's and women's tennis tournament, The A.T.P. Masters Series Cincinnati Masters. Cincinnati is home to major corporations such as Procter & Gamble, The Kroger Company, GE Infrastructure, Federated Department Stores (owner of Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Lord & Taylor), Convergys, Chiquita Brands International, Great American Insurance Company, The E. W. Scripps Company, the United States Playing Card Company, and Fifth Third Bank.

It is considered to have been the first major American "boomtown", rapidly expanding in the heart of the country in the early nineteenth century to rival the coastal metropolises in size and wealth. However, by the end of the century, its growth unexpectedly stopped and it was surpassed in population by many other inland cities.

Cincinnati is also known for the architectural distinction of having the largest collection of nineteenth-century Italianate architecture in the country, primarily concentrated in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, just north of downtown.

Cincinnati is located at 39°8′10″N 84°30′11″W / 39.13611°N 84.50306°W / 39.13611; -84.50306 (39.136160, -84.503088).Template:GR

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 206.1 km² (79.6 mi²). 201.9 km² (78.0 mi²) of it is land and 4.1 km² (1.6 mi²) of it (2.01%) is water.

The Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington Combined Statistical Area has a population of 2,113,011 people and is the 20th largest in the country. It includes the Ohio counties of Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Clermont, and Brown, as well as the Kentucky counties of Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, and Pendleton, and the Indiana counties of Dearborn, Franklin, and Ohio.

Cincinnati's weather is temperate and seasonal. Summers are hot and humid with cool evenings. The mean annual temperature is 54 °F (12 °C), with an average annual snowfall of 32 inches (81.3 cm) and an average annual rainfall of 41 inches (1,040 mm). The wettest seasons are the spring and summer, although rainfall is fairly constant all year round. During the winter, particularly in January and February, several days of snow can be expected, allowing for winter sports, although snowfall is lighter than in most of Ohio. Winter temperatures range from 27 to 43 °F (−3 to 6 °C) and summer temperatures range from 66 to 86 °F (19 to 30 °C).^[1] The highest recorded temperature was 103.0 °F (39.4 °C) on 1988-08-17, and the lowest recorded temperature was −25 °F (−32 °C) on 1978-01-18.^[2]

Cincinnati's unique geography nestles its neighborhoods in small basins and the hillsides that overlook them. Because of this, many of the city's neighborhoods developed very strong identities. Today's outer neighborhoods such as Clifton, Hyde Park, Mount Washington, Westwood, College Hill, and Carthage originally were settled as their own villages, with individual downtown sections of their own. Over-the-Rhine was an important neighborhood in German-American history. Northside also has its own identity.

Also highly important to the city's landscape is the division into "East Side and West Side." The division came about after the construction of Interstate Route 75, which runs North from Kentucky towards Dayton. The rivalry has been intense at times (limited violence or reported discrimination), but is considered mostly light-hearted, although a good number of city residents take the division more seriously. Accents, fashion, attitudes, city planning (i.e., the way the houses are laid out), financial demographics, and other items are some of the stereotypes and behaviors that separate the two distinctions. One description of such differences that many locals refer to is that East Siders are "fake" and West Siders are not. Another description of differences is the statement that the East side "has the money and spends it," and the West Side, "has the money and doesn't spend it." Though this division is often pointed to as a point of contention in the city, it has only led to limited incidents of violence or litigious discrimination, and is considered more of a "charming quirk" than a divisive hindrance to society.

Main article: History of Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati was founded in 1788 by John Cleves Symmes and Colonel Robert Patterson. Surveyor John Filson (also the author of The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon (siq) Daniel Boone) named it "Losantiville"[1] from four terms, each of different language; meaning "The city opposite the mouth of the (Licking) River," "ville" is French for "city," "anti" is Greek for "opposite," "os" is Latin for "mouth," and "L" was all that was included of "Licking River."

In 1789 Fort Washington was built to protect the settlements in the Northwest Territory. The post was constructed under the direction of General Josiah Harmar and was named in honor of President George Washington. [2]

In 1790, Arthur St. Clair, the governor of the Northwest Territory, changed the name of the settlement to "Cincinnati" in honor of the Society of the Cincinnati, of which he was president. The society was named gets its name from Cincinnatus, the Roman general, who saved the city of Rome from destruction and then quietly retired to his farm. The society was created in honor of General George Washington, who was considered a latter-day Cincinnatus because of his efforts in the American Revolution and then subsequent quiet retirement to his estate in Virginia. To this day, Cincinnati in particular, and Ohio in general, is home to a disproportionately large number of descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers who were granted lands in the state. Cincinnati's connection with Rome still exists today through its nickname of "The City of Seven Hills" [3] (a phrase commonly associated with Rome) and the town twinning program of Sister Cities International.

In 1802, Cincinnati was chartered as a village, and in 1819, it was incorporated as a city. The introduction of steam navigation on the Ohio River in 1811 and the completion of the Miami and Erie Canal helped the city grow to 115,000 citizens by 1850. The nickname Porkopolis was coined around 1835, when Cincinnati was the country's chief hog packing center, and herds of pigs traveled the streets. Called the "Queen of the West" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (although this nickname was first used by a local newspaper in 1819), Cincinnati was an important stop on the Underground Railroad, which helped slaves escape from the South.

Cincinnati also is known as the "City of Seven Hills." The seven hills are fully described in the June, 1853 edition of the West American Review, "Article III--Cincinnati: Its Relations to the West and South." The hills form a crescent from the east bank of the Ohio River to the west bank: Mount Adams, Walnut Hills, Mount Auburn, Vine Street Hill, Fairmount, Mount Harrison, and College Hill.

Cincinnati was the site of many historical beginnings. In 1850 it was the first city in the United States to establish a Jewish Hospital. It is where America's first municipal fire department was established in 1853. Established in 1867, the Cincinnati Red Stockings (a.k.a. the Red Legs), the Cincinnati Reds) became the world's first professional (all paid, no amateurs) baseball team in 1869. In 1935, major league baseball's first night game was played at Crosley Field. Cincinnati was the first to build and own a major railroad in 1880. 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. Because of the city's rich German heritage, the pre-prohibition era allowed Cincinnati to become a national forerunner in the brewing industry. During experimentation for six years (until 1939), Cincinnati's AM radio station, WLW was the first to broadcast at 500,000 watts. 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. WCET-TV was the first licensed public television station, established in 1954. [4] 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. In 1976, the Cincinnati Stock Exchange became the nation's first all-electronic trading market.

As a pioneer-era city, it compared with Pittsburgh and Nashville. As a "Riverboat" and canal-era city, it compared with Louisville, St. Louis, and New Orleans. As an immigrant, industrial city it compared with Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit.

Because of its river setting and extensive park system, many commentators have remarked on Cincinnati's beauty, including Winston Churchill, who called it "the most beautiful of America's inland cities." The city's picturesque skyline was used as a backdrop for the fictional city of Monticello on the soap opera The Edge of Night, one of the many soap operas sponsored by Cincinnati soap-maker Procter & Gamble. In fact, Procter & Gamble created the genre of the "soap opera" when it helped launch the Ma Perkins radio program in 1933.

In August 1966, Cincinnati rock-music fans had the privilege of seeing The Beatles perform at a large outdoor venue at Crosley Field. This was during the British group's final concert tour of the United States and Canada.

Tragedy struck the Cincinnati metropolitan area on May 28, 1977, when a suburban nightclub in Southgate, Kentucky burned, taking the lives of 165 persons. The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire remains the third-deadliest fire at a nightclub in American history.

One of the worst rock concert tragedies in United States history occurred in Cincinnati on December 3, 1979. Eleven people were killed in a rush for "festival seating" before a concert by The Who at Riverfront Coliseum (now U.S. Bank Arena). As a result, "festival seating" was banned at city venues until 2004.

Situated across the Ohio River from the border state of Kentucky, which allowed slavery, Ohio was a major focal point for commerce to the South. Although slavery was not permitted immediately before the Civil War, the city was not accepting of blacks. There were riots, racial purges, and confrontations with runaway slaves and freemen kidnapped into bondage.

The neighborhoods in Cincinnati are highly segregated. This separation was not explicitly created in law books or social procedures, but it is easily seen when considering the density of one racial domination of a particular area. Typically most Blacks reside closer to downtown (such as Over-the-Rhine and Avondale in Cincinnati and Covington across the river in Kentucky), with White clusters (such as Mount Adams, University Heights, and Clifton) being further from the center. There are also more highly integrated neighborhoods, but these are often surrounded by more polarized neighborhoods.

Cincinnati was an important stop for the Underground Railroad in pre-Civil War times. It bordered a slave state, Kentucky, and is often mentioned as a destination for many people escaping the bonds of slavery. There are many harrowing stories involving abolitionists, runaways, slave traders and free men.

Lane Theological Seminary was established in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati in 1829 to educate Presbyterian ministers. 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. Lane Seminary is known primarily for the "debates" held there in 1834 that influenced the nation's thinking about slavery. Several of those involved went on to play an important role in the abolitionist movement and the buildup to the American Civil War. [5] Abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom' Cabin, first published on March 20, 1852. The book was the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible)^[3] and is credited with helping to fuel the abolitionist cause in the United States prior to the American Civil War. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold. In his 1985 book Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture, Thomas Gossett observed that "in 1872 a biographer of Horace Greeley would argue that the chief force in developing support for the Republican Party in the 1850s had been Uncle Tom's Cabin." The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati is located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, and it is open to the public.

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, located in downtown Cincinnati on the banks of the Ohio River, largely focuses on the history of slavery in the U.S., but has an underlying mission of promoting freedom in a contemporary fashion for the world. Its grand opening ceremony in 2002 was a gala event involving many national stars, musical acts, fireworks, and a visit from the current First Lady of the United States. It is physically located between Great American Ballpark and Paul Brown Stadium, which were both built and opened shortly before the Freedom Center was opened.

There is a long history of racial tension between White and Black citizens in Cincinnati that have erupted in violence.

• 1829 – Riots begun by Whites to terrorize the Black community resulted in thousands of Blacks leaving for Canada.
• 1836 – a pro-slavery riot took place
• 1841 – White Irish-descendant and Irish immigrant dock workers rioted against Black dock workers. When the Black dock workers banded together to defend their community from the approaching Whites, the White rioters retreated and then commandeered a 6-pound cannon and shot it through the streets of Cincinnati.
• 1884 – One of the deadliest riots in U.S. history took place. It was started by a White mob in reaction to their anger over a murder trial involving a Black and White defendant. 56 people were killed and the city's courthouse was burned down.
• 1967 – the first riot initiated by Blacks occurred. The incident which sparked the violence was a domestic dispute between a Black couple which had gunfire involved but turned quickly into a race riot.
• 1968 – After Martin Luther King Jr's death riots raged nationwide. In the riots in Cincinnati two people died.
• 2001 – (Main article: 2001 Cincinnati Riots) After a period of 6 years, in which 15 young Black males were killed during police confrontations, and no other race or gender died, riots broke out in downtown Cincinnati. The death of Timothy Thomas occurred on the backdrop of a federal case brought against the city and police department alleging racial profiling rallying around Roger Owensby, Jr while the civil trial investigating the police involved in Owensby's death. (See also: Roger Owensby Jr Criminal Trial.) This combination is considered the catalyst for what some refer to as riots and others an uprising. The following years saw a slowing of policing in the more crime-riddled neighborhoods of Cincinnati and a spike in the murder rate, especially young Black males killing young Black males.

Cincinnati has a number of nicknames, including the "The Queen City," "The Queen of the West," "The Blue Chip City," "The City of Seven Hills" and "Porkopolis." These are more typically associated with professional, academic and public relations references to the city and are not commonly used by locals in casual conversation. Among the general population of the metropolitan area, Cincinnati is sometimes referred to "Cincy," "Cinci," "Cinti," "The 'Nati," "The Dirty 'Nati," "Cin-City," "The Nasti Nati," "The 513," "Cincinnasty," and "Pig City." [6]

Some, particularly those of older generations, still use a regional pronunciation of the city's name where the final vowel ("I") is short as opposed to long. Phonetically, this variation would be spelled [sin-suh-nat-/ɪ/] instead of the generally accepted [sin-sin-nat-ee]. This has, however, fallen out of common usage and is no longer considered a proper pronunciation of "Cincinnati" today.

Currently, the City of Cincinnati generally votes Democratic, while the rest of the metropolitan area generally votes Republican.

The city is governed by a nine-member city council, whose members are elected at large. Prior to 1924, city council was elected through a system of wards. The ward system lent itself to corruption and Cincinnati was run by the Republican political machine of Boss Cox from the 1880's through the 1920's with a few brief interludes. A reform movement arose in 1923, led by another Republican, Murray Seasongood. Seasongood eventually founded the Charter Committee, which used ballot initiatives in 1924 to eliminate the ward system and replace it with the current at-large system and also to introduce a city manager. From 1924 to 1957, the council was selected by proportional representation. As of 1957, all candidates run in a single race and the top nine vote-getters are elected (the "9-X system"). The mayor was selected by the council. Starting in 1987, the top vote-getter in the city council race automatically became mayor. Starting in 1999, the mayor was chosen in a separate election and the city manager accepted a lesser role in government; these reforms were referred to as the "strong mayor" reforms. Cincinnati politics includes the participation of the Charter Party, the party with the third-longest history of winning in local elections.

Before the riots of 2001, Cincinnati's overall crime rate was dropping dramatically. It was at its statistical lowest point in records dating back to 1992. After the riots, Keith Fangman, president of the Cincinnati Police Department's Fraternal Order of Police made various suggestive statements inspiring an unofficial "work slowdown" to demonstrate their frustration with the additional scrutiny and lack of support from other city entities. This meant they did not go out of their way for discretionary or self-related work, but they still did respond to emergencies. One example of Fangman's statements is: "If you want to make 20 traffic stops a shift and chase every dope dealer you see, you go right ahead," he wrote. "Just remember that if something goes wrong, or you make the slightest mistake in that split second, it could result in having your worst nightmare come true for you and your family, and City Hall will sell you out."

After the riots, violent crime has skyrocketed (but still well below the statistics in the 70's). The police force "work slowdown" correlates with this increase. It is important to note that Fangman repeatedly denied there was an organized effort for a slowdown, but many of his various recorded and public statements clearly discouraged pro-active policing repeatedly.

In May and June of 2006, the police created a task force focusing on a crackdown of crime reducing the crime rate of downtown Cincinnati by 29%. This marks a dramatic decrease in crime but has not reduced the crime levels to pre-riots/pre-work slowdown levels.

As of the censusTemplate:GR of 2003, there were 317,361 people, 166,012 households, and 72,566 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,640.5/km² (4,249.0/mi²). There were 166,012 housing units at an average density of 822.1/km² (2,129.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 52.97% White, 42.92% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 1.55% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.63% from other races, and 1.68% from two or more races. 1.28% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 148,095 households out of which 25.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.6% were married couples living together, 18.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 51.0% were non-families. 42.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.15 and the average family size was 3.02.

The age distribution is 24.5% under the age of 18, 12.9% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 18.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 89.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $29,493, and the median income for a family was $37,543. Males had a median income of $33,063 versus $26,946 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,962. About 18.2% of families and 21.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.0% of those under age 18 and 14.8% of those age 65 or over.

There has been concerted effort by the local government to stem the tide of emigrants. The population of Cincinnati decreased by nine percent between 1990 and 2000. Many of those leaving are living in the suburbs just outside of Cincinnati (often considered "Greater Cincinnati"). Several reasons are mentioned for this phenomenon common to many American cities, including job opportunities, entertainment, racial tensions, education opportunities and others.

Although the the Jewish population of Cincinnati at the turn of the century was estimated only to be about 15,000 -- roughly 1% of the national Jewish population of 1,522,500 at the time -- Cincinnati had been a hotbed for the American Reform Judaism movement in the 19th Century. Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a major contributor to the movement, immigrated to Cincinnati in 1854. Under his supervision the Hebrew Union College -- the oldest Jewish Seminary in the Americas – opened here in 1875. The American Jewish Archives (AJA) is also found on Hebrew Union College's campus, and is the repository for Reform Judaism in the Americas.

Fountain Square is a public square in downtown Cincinnati, located at Fifth Street and Vine. Its centerpiece is the landmark bronze Tyler Davidson Fountain. The square is a popular hardscape, surrounded by hotels, banks, department stores, and restaurants. The space was donated to the city of Cincinnati by prominent citizen Henry Probasco and dedicated on its completion in 1871 to his brother-in-law, Tyler Davidson.

In 1998 the fountain underwent extensive restoration. In September 2005 the fountain was temporarily moved to the Cincinnati Art Museum while Fountain Square itself undergoes extensive renovation. The fountain was then returned to a different location on the Square on August 19, 2006 in preparation for its re-opening sometime in early October 2006.

Fountain Square was featured in the credits of the television series WKRP in Cincinnati.

Being situated on the Ohio River, Cincinnati is home to several prominent bridges that connect the downtown to Covington, Kentucky and Newport, Kentucky. These include the historic and picturesque John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, which served as a prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge; the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge (aka The Big Mac Bridge); and the Newport Southbank Bridge (sometimes referred to as the Purple People Bridge), which is the longest pedestrian-only bridge in the United States connecting two states.

Cincinnatians also place a great value on the riverfront for its entertainment and economic benefits. The riverfront is home to both Paul Brown Stadium home of the Cincinnati Bengals, and to Great American Ball Park home of the Cincinnati Reds. The riverfront is also home of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and to "The Banks," a 40-acre site planned for future mixed commercial, residential and public recreational use. Also the annual WEBN Fireworks on Labor Day are celebrated at the river, as well as Tall Stacks, the largest gathering of steam riverboats in the nation. Also, many cultural festivals are held at Sawyer Point, including the Cincinnati Blues Festival. The Cincinnati Celtic Festival, formerly held at Ault Park and historic Coney Island, is on hiatus for 2006 and is expected to return in 2007 under new management.

Cincinnati Public Schools operates the public schools in the city, including 16 high schools, each accepting students on a city-wide basis. The Cincinnati area is also home to a number of Catholic high schools, most of which are single-sex. The city of Cincinnati is also home to a variety of private schools.

Cincinnati is served by two daily newspapers: The Cincinnati Enquirer, owned by the Gannett Co., and The Cincinnati Post, owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, as well as an African American newspaper (The Cincinnati Herald), a Jewish newspaper, (The American Israelite) and weekly newspapers CityBeat and CiN Weekly, also owned by the Gannett Co. The Cincinnati Business Courier [8] is a weekly business publication and Cincinnati Magazine comes out once a month.

• The following are online media outlets, including new aggregators, in the Cincinnati area:
  • Nati Underground - Cincinnati's Counterculture
  • The Dean of Cincinnati -- now at The Cincinnati Beacon [9]
  • 513 Green PAC [10]
  • AroundCinci.com [11]
  • Blue Chip Review [12]
  • Cincinnati.com [13]
  • The Cincinnati Nation [14]
  • NKY.com [15]
  • Queen City Forum [16]
  • WOXY (internet radio) [17]
  • Cincymusic.com [18]
  • Cincyweather.net [19]

• Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport is in Hebron, Kentucky, and serves Cincinnati, Ohio.
• The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, opened in 1866, links Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky. This bridge was the prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge, also designed by Roebling.
• Cincinnati is accessible via interstates I-75, I-71 and I-74. I-275 is a beltway around the city, and I-471 links it to Newport, Kentucky. US Route 50, a major east-west artery, services the area as the Sixth Street Expressway to the west, and Columbia Parkway to the east.
• ARTIMIS is the city's interstate information service. Current highway conditions are available 24/7 locally by dialing 511. From out of town or from 511-disabled phone systems, drivers can dial (513) 333-3333. [20]
• Lunken Airport - Cincinnati Municipal Airfield
• Amtrak Passenger Rail Service, The Cardinal, Trains 50 & 51 service Cincinnati.
• Greyhound Lines Bus Service
• CSX Transportation Railroad freight service
• Norfolk Southern Railroad freight service
• Indiana & Ohio Railway Railroad freight service
• Cincinnati has an unfinished subway, abandoned during construction in 1925 due to cost overruns. The existing tunnels now stand vacant.
• Metro city passenger bus, operated by Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority
• TANK Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky in Downtown Cincinnati, south of sixth street.

• Mt. Adams
• Clifton
• Cincinnati Main Street Arts and Entertainment District
• Big Pig Gig
• Cornhole (game), which originated in Cincinnati's West Side
• Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the fifth-oldest orchestra in the United States
• Cincinnati Ballet
• University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
• Tallstacks
• Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati
• Cincinnati May Festival
• Cincinnati BockFest
• MidPoint Music Festival
• Midwest Regional Black Family Reunion

• Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
• Newport Aquarium (across the Ohio River) [21]
• Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal [22]houses the Cincinnati Children's Museum, the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science, the OmniMax Cinema, and the Cincinnati History Museum in the classic Art-Deco Union Terminal, the largest half-dome on the planet Earth.
• Krohn Conservatory
• Mt. Airy Arboretum
• Lloyd Library and Museum, world-class collection covering medical botany, pharmacy, eclectic medicine, and horticulture.
• Spring Grove Cemetery
• Coney Island of Cincinnati
• Paramount's Kings Island, in Mason, 20 miles northeast of Cincinnati
• Boomerang Bay Waterpark, in Mason, located inside Paramount's Kings Island
• The Beach Waterpark, in Mason
• TPC at River's Bend, a golf club that hosts a Champions Tour event (men's senior golf)
• Western & Southern Financial Group Masters, an important tennis tournament held in Mason
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Taft Museum of Art
• American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum
• The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
• Greater Cincinnati Police Historical Society Museum
• Cincinnati Art Museum
• Cincinnati Fire Museum [23]
• Cincinnati Observatory Center
• Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
• Drake Planetarium
• Greater Cincinnati Science Education Center
• Harriet Beecher Stowe House
• Heritage Village Museum
• John Hauck House
• National Signs of the Times Museum
• Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame
• Cincinnati Friendship Park
• Creation Museum [24] (Scheduled to open in Spring 2007)

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