Camp Washington is a city neighborhood of

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, United States. It is located north of Queensgate, east of Fairmount, and west of

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and University Heights. The community is a crossing of 19th-century homes and industrial space, some of which is being converted into loft apartments. The population was 1,234 at the 2020 census. The first

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was held in Camp Washington in 1850. It had been scheduled the year prior but delayed due to a severe outbreak of cholera. During the U.S.–Mexican War Camp Washington was an important

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location, training 5,536 soldiers who went to war. Camp Washington was annexed to the City of Cincinnati in November, 1869. This neighborhood is also the location of

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buildings, including the Oesterlein Machine Company-Fashion Frocks, Inc. Complex and the old

Cincinnati Workhouse Cincinnati Work House and Hospital was a registered historic building in the neighborhood of Camp Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on March 3, 1980. The jail was built between 1867 and 1869 on of land. The City Work H ...

(designed by

Samuel Hannaford Samuel Hannaford (10 April 1835 – 7 January 1911) was an American architect based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Some of the best known landmarks in the city, such as Music Hall and City Hall, were of his design. The bulk of Hannaford's work was do ...

), which was destroyed and rebuilt to serve as a

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center. The neighborhood has been home to the award-winning

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parlor,

Camp Washington Chili Camp Washington Chili is a Cincinnati chili parlor founded in 1940 by Steve Andon and Fred Zannbus in the neighborhood of Camp Washington, Cincinnati, Camp Washington, near downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati, in southwestern Ohio. A well known ...

for more than 70 years. On December 29, 2002, a cow, later named

Cincinnati Freedom Cincinnati Freedom (c. 1995 – December 29, 2008), also known as Charlene Moo-ken, after Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken, was a 1,050-pound Charolais cow that gained fame when, on February 15, 2002, she leaped over a six-foot fence at Ken Meyers ...

, escaped a Camp Washington slaughterhouse and eluded capture for eleven days, drawing national attention. She was captured in the nearby neighborhood of Clifton and lived out the rest of her days at Farm Sanctuary's New York Shelter in Watkins Glen, New York. The event is memorialized in an outdoor mural on Colerain Avenue, Cincinnati, near the site of the former slaughterhouses.

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