College Hill is a residential neighborhood of

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. Originally a wealthy suburb called Pleasant Hill due to its prime location, it was renamed College Hill because of the two colleges that were established there in the mid-nineteenth century. The neighborhood is not to be confused with North College Hill, which borders College Hill to the north but is not part of Cincinnati. The population was 14,133 at the 2010 census.

History

In 1813-14, William Cary, having migrated from New Hampshire to Cincinnati in 1802, purchased north of Cincinnati along what is now Hamilton Avenue (

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). Cary built a log cabin and moved his family to this “wilderness,” then known as Mill Creek Township. In 1833, Cary's son Freeman G. Cary established Pleasant Hill Academy for boys on part of his land. The academy became an agricultural school called Farmer's College (for which the area was renamed) in 1846. That school became Belmont College in 1885, and then formed the core of the

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in 1890. A separate school, the

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, was founded in 1852 by Reverend John Covert and operated until 1873''Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors'', The Wisen-Hart Press, 1943, p. 402. when it was sold to build the

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, the first private US

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facility not on the East Coast. The development of the area was expedited by the introduction of a railroad line in 1851 and horsecar service in the 1860s. College Hill was incorporated as a village in 1866, then annexed to the city of Cincinnati in stages in 1911, 1915 and 1923. The town was the birthplace of

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and still features several historic buildings, including Laurel Court,

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and the Old College Hill Post Office.

Demographics

Notable people

John E. Bruce John Eldridge Bruce (October 1, 1856 – August 17, 1924) was an American lawyer, politician, and civil servant. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives and mayor of College Hill, Ohio. Bruce became the personal attorney to Ban Johnson, ...

, former mayor *

Cornelia Laws St. John Cornelia Laws St. John (, Williams; after first marriage, Laws; after second marriage, St. John; died February 24, 1902) was an American poet and biographer. She was the author of ''Over the Shoulder to Clovernook, Being a Backward Glance at Alic ...

(died 1902), poet

Gallery

Image:1934 FarmersCollege Cincinnati byTyler LC HABS OHIO 31.jpg, Farmer's College, built 1848 (photo 1934) Image:1857 OhioFemaleCollege ad Cincinnatus v2 no1.png, Advertisement for Ohio Female College, 1857 Image:1857 Cincinnatus v2 no3 FarmersCollege Ohio.png, Cover of ''Cincinnatus'', publication of Farmer's College, 1857

References

External links

College Hill Community website
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