The Ohio Female College was founded in 1852 in

College Hill, Cincinnati College Hill is a residential neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. 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 ce ...

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. The site was used to build the

Cincinnati Sanitarium Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

, the first private US

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facility not on the East Coast. The sanitarium was renamed Emerson A. North Hospital in 1956. When the hospital closed in 1994, the site was used by Phoenix International, a company that conducted clinical trials of drugs for the pharmaceutical industry. After Phoenix left in 2000,

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) is an academic pediatric acute care children's hospital located in the Pill Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The hospital has 652 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the University o ...

College Hill Campus was established on the site.

Notable alumni

* Cornelia Laws St. John (died 1902), poet

References

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