Branch Hill is an

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Miami Township, Clermont County, Ohio Miami Township is one of the fourteen townships of Clermont County, Ohio, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 40,848, up from 36,632 in 2000. The township's students are served mostly by Milford Exempted Village Schools. Geog ...

, United States, on the banks of the

Little Miami River The Little Miami River ( sjw, Cakimiyamithiipi) is a Class I tributary of the Ohio River that flows U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 26, 2011 through five counties ...

near Loveland. The

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passes through Branch Hill.

History

Until wagon bridges were built across the

, settlement of Loveland was mostly confined to the Clermont County side, which had access to a railroad station. A wooden bridge spanned the river at Symmestown and what would become Branch Hill from 1850 until it washed out six years later. For years, residents on both sides pushed for a bridge at Loveland, to avoid the long trip to Foster's Crossing or Miamiville, and by 1868 threatened to have Miami Township annexed to Hamilton County if Clermont County officials continued to obstruct the project. A $75,000

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was finally built at Symmestown and Branch Hill and dedicated on July 4, 1871. It was anchored by four

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columns, at that time the heaviest ever made in the United States. The community of Branch Hill was laid out in 1873 by Col. John H. Branch, and named for him. During the 1930s, Branch Hill was home to the Arrowhead Club, a

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associated with the Cleveland Syndicate that served residents of Indian Hill.

References

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