WHERE SOME NAMES CAME FROM NORTH BEND; The area marks the last great northern bend in the Ohio River. The course from here to the Mississippi River is always westward and southward. CLEVES and SYMMES; Both names come from the name of one of the original settlers, John Cleves Symmes who originally owned 1,000,000 acres of land. Cleves was his Mothers name. CAMP WASHINGTON; General Waynes Army had one of his camps here. FULTON; Up-river from Cincinnati at the bend in the river it is where the ship yards & dry docks were located. It was appropriately named after the steamboats inventor. PENDLETON; The whole area was once owned by a man named Pendleton (grandfather of Jacob Strader). READING; One of the original settlers in that area came from Reading, England. SHARONVILLE; Was named after the Biblical Sharon, where the roses bloomed. AVONDALE; There are two explanations: The mother of Stephen Burton, who was a lover of Shakespeare, (first Mayor of Avondale, Burton Ave., Burton Elementary) Suggested the name in honor of the Bard of Avon. The other explanation is that there was a omnibus who made the trip to Cincinnati and back to the town once a day. The name of the omnibus was The Avon. Avondale is not a leap. GLENDALE; The name comes from a Mr. Glenn the owner of Glenn Farm that was in the area. WYOMING; The people in the area threw a party and Mr. Reilly (Reilly Road) asked for suggestions and Wyoming was the result. HARTWELL; Named after John W. Hartwell, the director of the C. H. & D. Railroad which had made the town possible MONTGOMERY; The founder of the town came from the town of Montgomery in New York. HARRISON; Obviously named after William Henry Harrison. HAMILTON COUNTY; Alexander Hamilton. BURNET WOODS; Judge Jacob Burnet. LYTLE PARK; General William H. Lytle whose home was where the park was established. AULT PARK; Named after Lee A. Ault who donated the land. CUMMINSVILLE; Named after an early settler by the name of Cummins. SYCAMORE STREET; It is called that because of a large sycamore tree that stood on the Ohio River bank at the foot of the street. LUDLOW AVENUE; Named after Israel Ludlow one of the first surveyors in the county. WALNUT HILLS; The hills at that time were covered with walnut trees. MILFORD; It was in a ford and had a mill. NEWTOWN; The name itself is an explanation. VERNONVILLE; Near what is now Oak and Burnet was a florist who called his place the Vernon. In 1859 it was suggested that the little settlement be called Vernon Gardens which, eventually, became Vernonville. COLERAIN; (town & Street) were named by John Dunlop, friend & advisor of John Cleves Symmes, who was born in Colerain, Ireland. MADEIRA; It is the name of an early settler, John Madeira who was also treasurer of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, forerunner of the B&O mainline that ran through the town. CARTHAGE-TUSCULUM HEIGHTS; Only names (with Cincinnati) that came from the Ancient World. MT. AUBURN; From Goldsmiths Sweet Auburn, Loveliest Village of the Plain. BOND HILL; Bond Hill is actually in a valley with hills surrounding it. The founders thought that if they called their low ground a hill they could attract more settlers. CAMARGO; In 1847 it was called Eden. The postmaster read about Camargo in the Mexican War and loved the name so much he petitioned the P.O. Dept. to change the name. It was granted. EVENDALE; The land in this area is flat as a billiard table. RED BANK; In that spot is a great bank of reddish sand and gravel. TERRACE PARK; The land here stands on one of the great post glacial terraces and is a favorite site for geologists. ANDERSON TOWNSHIP; Named after Richard Clough Anderson. General Anderson was a surveyor sent here after the Revolutionary War. He is also responsible for CLOUGH PIKE & CLOUGH ROAD.. MILL CREEK; Although there are none there now and has not had one since the early 1800s, there used to be a mill on it. LOVELAND; No it was not named by a lovesick settler. It was named after a Colonel Loveland. CAMP DENNISON; Was a Civil War training camp named for the Governor of Ohio. LOCKLAND; Named for the many locks it had for the Miami Erie Canal. CHEVIOT; Probably named for the Cheviot Hills of Scotland. ADDYSTON; Named for Matthew Addy an industrialist who established the manufacturing plant Matthew Eddy & Co. in the town. IVORYDALE; Named for a soap product of P.&G. MARIEMONT; Named for its founder Mrs. Mary J. Emery. PRICE HILL; Named for the family that owned most of the land there and was once known as Prices Hill. KENNEDY; Named for the Kennedy family who once owned the land the town sits on. SILVERTON; The middle name of the engineer who laid the original track for the railroad was Silver and as a thank you a stop was named Silverton for him which has since become quite a town. ROSE HILL-AVON HILLS-BEECHMONT; Are all taken from poetry. HYDE PARK; Named for Hyde Park in London. NORWOOD; Originally known as Sharpsburg apparently a Young Women in Sharpsburg infancy did not like this name and she called it Norwood which was the name of her husband. Sharpsburg only contained 2 houses at the time. COLLEGE HILL; Got its name because of the college that was there. Known as Farmers College. Over the years it became known as Belmont Academy and then the Ohio Military Institute. CLIFTON; The name came from an old farm known as the Clifton Farms which was very large. LAFAYETTE AVENUE; Named for the bank that eventually took over Clifton Farms. It was this bank that subdivided the property and began the actual settlement of Clifton. RIVERSIDE; Originally was called South Bend by John Cleves Symmes to balance his own North Bend. Saylor Park was once called Home City. BRACKEN ROAD; The Bracken family were early pioneers. FERGUSON ROAD; Named after Alexander Ferguson, an extensive landowner and Father of Cincinnatis Southern Railroad. When Colonel Israel Ludlow became the surveyor of Cincinnati he laid out the citys streets like those of Philadelphia which was, at that time, the nations capital and largest city. He laid out the citys streets in straight lines with the river as the main axis. He even named many of the streets like those in Philadelphia, using numbers and native tree names. The main streets were 60 to 66 feet wide except for Broadway which was 100 feet wide. Originally, each square was divided into eight lots of 99 by 198 feet. The busiest streets in the first decade was Front and Water Streets which ran east-west along the river, and Broadway and Main streets which ran north-south.
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