Camp Washington is a city neighborhood of
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is located north of
Queensgate Queensgate, Queen's Gate and variants may refer to:
Locations and structures
;Canada
*Queensgate, a suburb of Caledon, Ontario
*Queen's Gates, ornate entrance to the Canadian parliament
;Gibraltar
* Queen's Gate, Gibraltar, an ancient city gate
...
, east of
Fairmount, and west of
Clifton
Clifton may refer to:
People
*Clifton (surname)
*Clifton (given name)
Places
Australia
* Clifton, Queensland, a town
**Shire of Clifton
*Clifton, New South Wales, a suburb of Wollongong
*Clifton, Western Australia
Canada
*Clifton, Nova Scotia ...
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
Ohio State Fair 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
military 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
National Register buildings, including the
Oesterlein Machine Company-Fashion Frocks, Inc. Complex and the old
Cincinnati Workhouse (designed by
Samuel Hannaford), which was destroyed and rebuilt to serve as a
drug rehabilitation center. The neighborhood has been home to the award-winning
Cincinnati chili parlor,
Camp Washington Chili for more than 70 years.
On December 29, 2002, a cow, later named
Cincinnati Freedom, 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.
Demographics
Source - City of Cincinnati Statistical Database
References
External links
Community Web site
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Neighborhoods in Cincinnati